25 Years in Moria

[Tinman]

I was recently checking some time lines and found the disturbing fact that 25 years had passed from the time that Balin's crew was slaughtered in moria, and the fellowship entered.

Are we really to believe that the dwarves didn't think to check in on him once in a while? Balin was a very important dwarf, and some thing as extreme as restoring the Great dwarven cityo of Kazad dum seems like something that the big wigs might wanna check in on time to time.

And I thought that maybe Gimli was just sheltered, but Oin had gone with Balin... I really doubt some one as important as Gimli, whose fathers brother left, would be clueless to this fact...