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{{quote|''"Mithril! All folk desired it. It could be beaten like copper, and polished like glass; and the Dwarves could make of it a metal, light and yet harder than tempered steel. Its beauty was like to that of common silver, but the beauty of ''mithril'' did not tarnish or grow dim."''|'''Gandalf''', ''[[The Lord of the Rings]]'', Book II, Chapter 4 "A Journey in the Dark".}}
Mithril is a fictional metal from [[
The name "mithril" or similarly spelled variations (mithral, mythril, and others) is present in other fictional contexts like role-playing games, since the Tolkien Estate did not trademark the term, unlike "[[The Hobbit|Hobbit]]" or "Balrog". One early example is [[Dungeons and Dragons]] and its derivatives (e.g. [[Forgotten Realms]]). It appears in many computer and video games such as: ''[[The Elder Scrolls IV]]: Oblivion'' (it also appeared TES II: Daggerfall, although there it was a ''mid-weight'' material), ''[[Ever Quest]]'', ''[[Runescape]]'', ''[[Tales
As to if Mithril was ever based on a real metal, Tolkien never said. Guesses for this metal have been aluminum, titanium, naturally occuring titanium-molybdenum alloy and platinum (and yttrium silver [[wikipedia:Intermetallics|if you want to get technical]]).
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