Gladden Fields

The Gladden Fields (Sindarin for Loeg Ningloron) were located in the vale of the Gladden river, a tributary of the Anduin.

At this place in TA 2 Isildur and his sons were ambushed by orcs and killed. Isildur attempted to escape by jumping in to the Gladden, using the power of invisibility of the One Ring. But here the Ring slipped from Isildur's finger. Isildur landed on the other bank of the river where he was killed by orcs looking for survivors of the ambush.

It was here, twenty-five centuries after the ambush in TA 2463, that the hobbit Déagol retrieved the One Ring from the Gladden and he was killed by his cousin Sméagol, who became the evil creature called Gollum.

Saruman also came to Gladden Fields and found treasures of Isildur and kept them hiddin in Orthanc of Isengard. Until the fourth age when Aragorn found many treasures in Orthanc and thought saruman might have kept them secert. He even had found one hiddin by a secert door that could only be opened with the help of Gimli.