Then Balin wearily armed himself and the knight brought his new and well-painted shield and forced it on him, and Balin was too weary and confused to argue, and he thought how his squire had said he was a headstrong knight and therein lay his trouble, and so he accepted the shield and mounted and rode slowly to a lake, in which there was a small island so near to the castle that it was overlooked by the battlements.
Balin nekatuegia zegoen eztabaidatan hasteko, eta gogoratu zuen behin ezkutariak esan ziola oso zaldun setatsua zela eta hori zela bere akatsa;