I was wondering that too. Thanks for clearing it up.
Which brings me to my next question.
Why didn't anyone try to contact Balin earlier to see what was going down? I know that Dwarves are notoriously secretive and all, but even Gimli hadn't heard from him for a good time. Surely some dwarf, a distant relative maybe, would have gone to pop in to say, "Hey, what's up? How's it hangin'?"
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