Disaster of the Gladden Fields

Disaster of the Gladden Fields
   The loss of Isildur and his Bane.
   The orc-raid at the beginning of the Third Age, in which Isildur was lost in the River Anduin, and with him the One Ring that he had taken from Sauron.

J.R.R. Tolkien's Middle-earth glossary. . 2003.

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