Dwalin was approaching Thorin, hoping that he can reason with him, when the others couldn't. His decisions regarding the wellbeing of the company were becoming even more difficult every day. "Since when do we forsake our own people? Thorin, Dain is surrounded; they are dying out there", he told him, having to remain hopeful in laying out the realities of their situation to their once-respected king. "Thorin, you're sitting here in these vast halls with a crown upon your head, and leaving them to die. Don't you realize that you are becoming lesser now than you have ever been?", he asked the leading dwarf.