Don't apologise, Imladris
Don't be daft.
However, I'm afraid I must do just what I've told Imladris not to, and apologise to all of you for my sparseness of prescence on this discussion thread. Unfortunately, due to an incredibly feat of scheduling, seven different subjects landed coursework on me...all within the same three weeks! Anyway, most of it is fought of so far, so I will be around more, but I am very sorry.
Anyway...I will wait to post my next post until that fight and Balin's subsequent bashing has been posted, as I wish to relate to that.
Imladris, I will include the contents of Dain's letter in this.