mithril

From The Bridge of Khazad-Dum The implication is that Balrogs can speak but Durin's Bane may have been the strong silent type. Is there any spoken words recorded for a Balrog in Tolkien's works or in Christopher's Tolkien's writings? Do we know if Durin's Bane had detected the Ring or was he...

It's already well-known that the Mithril was so OP that no already known weapons could cause effective damage,...at least in the 3rd Age. Yet there're still bunches of cases showing Mithril weren't supposed to be that invincible, such as the destructive casualties during the War of the Last...

I guess I first thought of this from a joke used in a "How it Should Have Ended" for the Hobbit movie (the third one) where Bilbo, who already has a magic ring, tells Thorin to keep the Mthril coat and so uses it to avoid being killed by Azog. While Azog was already dead in the books by this...

Yeah, such elite armed forces trained as hardly as tower guard and appointed to much more risky military tasks than the previous,yet with lower hardware? Was it due to prevention of any mithril classified stuff from being captured or anything else? Any idea?

Hey everyone, Matt from Nerd of the Rings just started a petition to PJ and Warner Bros to make the true ultimate edition of the films (aka Mithril Edition). He started it after receiving the newest ultimate collectors edition and it just wasn't the ultimate edition. The Mithril Edition would...

Mithril wasn't consumable at all, thus even if Moria was done, all the Mithril products still couldn't cause any kind of domino effects at it's guests composed of the Free People Super Powers at once. Then what made the Mithril so insufficient, for was it still breakable under special conditions...

Apart from cold steel attack, were there any other splendid performance of Mithril in military, such as defecting explosion and so forth?We couldn't make sure that Sauron did bombard Moria's gate or not, though it truly checked his advance. The durability of Mithril was no limit, as an result...

Hi all, Long time lurker first time poster. I came across this poll which attempts to settle the debate around which mythic metal is superior - mithril or beskar. Each have similar properties and rewithin their respective lore. Can you please vote here?

This does not involve any trap of thucydides at all I swear, I just wonder if Mithtil was really such important military industrial resources, then would the Noldor powers and Numenorain(After Tar-Ciryatur's reign) get into any unfriendly and hateful mood for the authority to claim those Mithril...

There is a metal mentioned in a dialogue of Plato's concerning Atlantis called orichalcum, which was said to be more precious than any other except gold. Mithril was more precious than silver, which is second only to gold. I read in Unfinished Tales that mithril could be found in Numenor...

I have a quick question, but when you answer it please give me some support from the books to back up your answer, because I've found a lot of things that I will post that could send this either way. Anyway, the question is: which had more value? The Arkenstone or Mithril? On the one hand...

From Unfinished Tales; Disaster of the Gladden Fields: Here is the full passage where Gandalf states that, from A Journey in the Dark: Clearly, there is an inconsistency here. Do you think that Gandalf was mistaken? I am of the opinion that he was not, and that this is just an error on...

In The Hobbit, Bilbo got a mithril coat from Thorin. It was said to be from a young Elf prince. Would that mithril coat be Legolas' when he was young? If you think of the location, Thranduil's home in Mirkwood would be the closest place where elves lived to the Lonely Mountain. Does Tolkien ever...