Isildur's fault ?

[crabby]

so did our burning friend actually do anything with the Dwarven rings he captured?

Mouth of Sauron?

or did he not 'recycle' them because they proved ineffective? the Dwarves who recieved/had them certainly clung to them and were tormented by their loss, but they were not, as the rings given to Kings of Men were, successfull in bringing the alleigence of the Dwarves to Sauron...

 

[Erestor Arcamen]

so did our burning friend actually do anything with the Dwarven rings he captured?

Mouth of Sauron?

or did he not 'recycle' them because they proved ineffective? the Dwarves who recieved/had them certainly clung to them and were tormented by their loss, but they were not, as the rings given to Kings of Men were, successfull in bringing the alleigence of the Dwarves to Sauron...

The Dwarves natural hardiness made them resistant to Sauron's control. By the time of the Trilogy, four of the rings were consumed by dragon fire and the other three reacquired by Sauron. The only thing that I'm aware that was written about them after this was that after the War of the Ring started, an envoy of Sauron came to The Lonely Mountain, as reported by Gloin at the Council of Elrond:

“Then about a year ago a messenger came…from Mordor…He asked urgently concerning hobbits, of what kind they were, and where they dwelt.” And finally to obtain and surrender Bilbo’s ring for “it is but a trifle that Sauron fancies…Find it and the three rings that the Dwarf-sires possessed of old shall be returned to you.” – The Fellowship of the Ring

And here is the text from Unfinished Tales: The Quest of Erebor, where Gandalf talks about finding Thrain II in Dol Guldur:

“I understand now that I had heard the last ravings of Thráin II, though he could not speak his own name nor his son’s…he said he possessed a Ring. Nearly all of his ravings were of that: the last of the seven.”

 

[PaigeSinclaire88]

Isildur has always been blamed that for his pride and ambitions he did not cast the Ring into fire to destroy it and that he wanted it for himself - to enlarge and strengthen the dominion of his kingdom and of the race of Men.
But here what I've found:

Which shows that Isildur meant to go from Osgilliath not just to his kingdom, but through the most direct possible way- to Rivendale in order to leave the Ring with the High Elves!

Then it apears that he had very good and decent intentions concerning the Ring of Power after he had understood that he was not worthy of wielding the powers within and that this powerful creation could and should be used by the High Elves, who were used to taking councels from the Valar < from Illuvatar. He had understood that he had not yet achieved the power to controll this thing and through it - the fate of the ME; he had understood that higher powers must deal with this object and possibly turn its powers from evil to serve good....

What do you think of all that?

Honestly, I like your opinion. I often wondered the same thing after the reading. Unfortunately, the movie over simplifies Isildur and his intent, which in the grand scheme of things just isnt fair, to him or the human race.
I think it was his honest intent to turn the evil ring in to something good. He wanted to change the system so to speak but he couldnt. And not meaning to get political but maybe it is a metaphor for a system...In Isildur's case mainly. "you cant change the system but the system changes you" it's a cynical look on the system, but mind you he lived during WWI and WWII and I think you can tell during the corruption of man that maybe a bit of his cynicism was showing through, whether he realized it or not or even intended it.