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Yes, I remembered the bones in the hall where they found the book, and soon will find Balin's (?)tomb. I just thought PJ maybe might have built up to the dread of all the dead a little more instead of bringing it out as soon as they got in the mines. Also, in the book Gimli was not sure if they would find the dwarves in Moria. They had lost contact and this was one of the reasons, I think, that Gimli wanted to come on the trek south. He was hoping to find some word of his kinsmen. The movie made it out to be that he fully expected to find the dwarves thriving in which case they should have been able to get word back to the old homestead. Just a little inconsistency I believe.

Yes, it is an inconsistancy in the film... If any could have reasonably expected the dwarves to be thriving there, why would any of them have dreaded going that way?