Perky Ent: No, Alrik is'nt going to die (yet  ) but the death of Balin, the attack of the orcs and the desolation of their greatest hold have left him at rather low spirits. He is simply aknowledging the possibility of his own death.
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Herein, it is said, the power of Ulmo was shown. For he gathered tidings of all that passed in Beleriand, and every stream that flowed from Middle-earth to the Great Sea was to him a messenger, both to and fro
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