O que aconteceu com o corpo de Isildur?

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O Desastre dos Campos de Lis aconteceu no 2º ano da Terceira Era. Os Istari chegam cerca de 998 anos depois disso. No ano 2851, Saruman começa a procurar perto do Campo de Gladden pelo Um Anel. Isso é mais de 2800 anos depois da morte de Isildur.

No trace of his body was ever found by Elves or Men.

Unfinished Tales - Part III, Chapter I: The Disaster of the Gladden Fields

Saruman não era nem: ele era um Maia. Ele encontrou os ossos de Isildur enquanto procurava pelo Anel? Ele com certeza encontrou a corrente que Isildur usava; sobre o qual foi amarrado o Um Anel antes de morrer.

One was a small case of gold, attached to a fine chain; it was empty, and bore no letter or token, but beyond all doubt it had once borne the Ring about Isildur's neck.

Unfinished Tales - Part III, Chapter I: The Disaster of the Gladden Fields

Então, o que aconteceu com o corpo de Isildur (esqueleto, na verdade)?

Existe alguma declaração canônica de que Saruman ou qualquer outro não-elfo ou não-homem tenha encontrado o corpo de Isildur?

    
por Mat Cauthon 30.04.2017 / 09:41

1 resposta

Não sabemos, mas alguns acreditavam que Saruman descobriu seus restos mortais.

But King Elessar, when he was crowned in Gondor, began the re-ordering of his realm, and one of his first tasks was the restoration of Orthanc, where he proposed to set up again the palantir recovered from Saruman. Then all the secrets of the tower were searched. Many things of worth were found, jewels and heirlooms of Eorl, filched from Edoras by the agency of Wormtongue during King Thĕoden's decline, and other such things, more ancient and beautiful, from mounds and tombs far and wide. Saruman in his degradation had become not a dragon but a jackdaw. At last behind a hidden door that they could not have found or opened had not Elessar had the aid of Gimli the Dwarf a steel closet was revealed. Maybe it had been intended to receive the Ring; but it was almost bare. In a casket on a high shelf two things were laid. One was a small case of gold, attached to a fine chain; it was empty, and bore no letter or token, but beyond all doubt it had once borne the Ring about Isildur's neck. Next to it lay a treasure without price, long mourned as lost for ever: the Elendilmir itself, the white star of Elvish crystal upon a fillet of mithril that had descended from Silmarien to Elendil, and had been taken by him as the token of royalty in the North Kingdom. Every king and the chieftains that followed them in Arnor had borne the Elendilmir down even to Elessar himself; but though it was a jewel of great beauty, made by Elven-smiths in Imladris for Valandil Isildur's son, it had not the ancientry nor potency of the one that had been lost when Isildur fled into the dark and came back no more. (Unfinished Tales)

Uma vez que estes estavam entre os pertences pessoais de Isildur, suspeitava-se que Saruman tinha encontrado seus restos mortais, tomado os tesouros e desonrado seus ossos.

When men considered this secret hoard more closely, they were dismayed. For it seemed to them that these things, and certainly the Elendilmir, could not have been found, unless they had been upon Isildur's body when he sank; but if that had been in deep water of strong flow they would in time have been swept far away. Therefore Isildur must have fallen not into the deep stream but into shallow water, no more than shoulder-high. Why then, though an Age had passed, were there no traces of his bones? Had Saruman found them, and scorned them - burned them with dishonour in one of his furnaces? If that were so, it was a shameful deed; but not his worst. (Unfinished Tales)

Até onde eu sei, estas são as únicas referências aos seus restos mortais.

Pessoalmente, acho muito duvidoso que os restos humanos tenham durado tanto tempo no fundo de um rio pantanoso, mas suponho que devo me submeter ao julgamento dos Sábios, que não teriam medo de que Saruman tivesse encontrado permanece se isso fosse uma possibilidade.

    
30.04.2017 / 14:55