Balin established himself at this chamber after driving out the orcs from Moria. His tomb was placed there, positioned so that the shaft in the wall spilled its light directly upon its stone. The chamber itself had two wooden doors inlaid with iron trusses for fortification on either side; When the Fellowship of the Ring arrived at the Chamber of Mazarbul, it was dusty, claustrophobic, and unsightly, save the clean tomb in the middle. Littered about the floor of the chamber were many bones, papers, skeletons, and weapons such as Orc-scimitars. Only one guard room lay off to the side of the chamber, where Pippin evidently let the skeleton (sitting atop the hole in the center of the room) loose down the well. There were recesses carved into the walls, filled with broken chests of wood. Besid