Elrond did take up the Finger and present it to Isildur who grew enraged. "Who are you, Half-Elven," he cried in the wrath and madness of his new ownership of the Ring, "to give me the Finger?" Isildur then did go down to the army and take up a chicken, which he threw at Elrond, and many did say then that no good would come from the flipping of a bird.
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