Не дико ли, что о Толкине ничего нет?

"It looks like a tomb," muttered Frodo, and bent forwards with a curious sense of foreboding, to look more closely at it. Gandalf came quickly to his side. On the slab runes were deeply graven:
"These are Daeron's Runes, such as were used of old in Moria," said Gandalf. "Here is written in the tongues of Men and Dwarves:



"He is dead then," said Frodo. "I feared it was so." Gimli cast his hood over his face.

Слова автора, вводящие прямую речь, могут предшествовать ей или следовать за ней. В обоих случаях они отделяются от нее запятой.

Gimli makes a comment while the Fellowship is in Moria to the effect that he's now unsure that Balin ever came there. It is Frodo, not Gimli, who states (on seeing Balin's tomb) "He is dead then ... I feared it was so." (Fellowship of the Ring, Book II, Chapter 4, "A Journey in the Dark")

- At the end of Journey in the Dark in the Fellowship (I think, I don't have my book handy) Frodo says "He is dead then. I feared it was so." regarding Balin. This has always seems very strange to me for a few reasons. One, this doesn't seem like the kind of thing Frodo would be concerned with or think about at all. and two, Frodo doesn't talk like this. This seems more like something Gandalf or Aragorn, or possibly Gimli would say. What are your thoughts?

- It seems that Frodo might have become sort of attached to Balin through Bilbo and his stories. It may have seemed to him more like losing an old friend than hearing of the death of a hero you know little about.

- Frodo knew, or knew of, Balin well enough to ask about him at the banquet at Rivendell, and Glóin's answer there and his words at the Council did not bode well for my favorite TH dwarf . Plus, with that preparation, he has trekked through Moria for several days without seeing one sign of Balin's party until now - I can't imagine that this would have failed to be on the minds of any of the party as the passage progressed. Frodo's words seemed perfectly natural to me.

- I think Jackson did good in making the phrase a line of Gandlafs, because as your said, it doesn't seem that Frodo would be much concerved with whether Balin was dead or alive...

- Can't buy that. It seems possible that Frodo might have actually met Balin in his youth, and probably heard many times the tale of Lonely Mountain. Bilbo, to me, seemed close to Balin, and at the least this association would mean much to Frodo.

- Gandalf could have been thinking about how to get the fellowship out of Moria and not end up the same way Balin did (ie: dead).

- I think it's fine that only Frodo says something. Balin was the dwarf that liked Bilbo the most in the Hobbit, so Bilbo had to have told Frodo about him. Bilbo also had visitors in the Shire after the events of the Hobbit, why not some of the dwarves?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iScUZ75bW94
К сожалению, песня далеко не полная, фактически тут только её начало и конец, но всё же исполнено прекрасно.

Полная версия
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8PSFN2r6bXY