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- "Their feet disturbed a deep dust upon the floor, and stumbled among things lying in the doorway whose shapes they could not at first make out. The chamber was lit by a wide shaft high in the further eastern wall; it slanted upwards and, far above, a small square patch of blue sky could be seen. The light of the shaft fell directly on a table in the middle of the room: a single oblong block, about two feet high, upon which was laid a great slab of white stone. 'It looks like a tomb,' muttered Frodo..."
- —The Fellowship of the Ring, "A Journey in the Dark"
Gimli by Balin's tomb in The Fellowship of the Ring film (2001)
Balin's tomb
Balin's tomb was a mausoleum of white marble that was located deep within Moria on the eastern side of the Misty Mountains to the north of the Twenty-first Hall of North end.
Description[]
The tomb was located within what had once been the Chamber of Mazarbul, or the Chamber of Records. The tomb was in the center of the room and housed the body of Gimli's fallen cousin, Balin, who had tried to reclaim Moria in TA 2989. The tomb was illuminated by a beam of light from a shaft in the ceiling.
Upon the tomb, the words were inscribed in cirth runes, saying:
BALIN SON OF FUNDIN
LORD OF MORIA
Translations[]
| Foreign Language | Translated name |
| Danish | Balins Gravkammer |