![]() ![]() Isildur tried to escape by jumping into a river but was killed by arrows. On his journey back to the northern capital of Arnor, his retinue was ambushed by orcs. After Elendil fell in the War of the Last Alliance, his eldest son Isildur ascended to the throne. Once owned by Elendil, the first King of Arnor, it was an emblem of royalty in the North Kingdom. Searching through the closets of Orthanc, King Elessar and his aides found the long lost first Elendilmir, a white star of Elvish crystal affixed to a fillet of mithril. Other mithril objects in Tolkien's writings The shirt saved his life one more time when Saruman, who had taken over the Shire, tried to stab Frodo after Frodo had spared his life. Gandalf took the shirt and other tokens, but refused any offer of parley.Īt the end of the story, Frodo wore the shirt at the celebrations and on the trip home. The shirt was, along with Frodo's other possessions, shown to Frodo's allies at the Black Gate to falsely imply that he was captured. Frodo was saved, but one of the orcs escaped with the shirt. Frodo was taken by the orcs, who fought over the shirt. When Sam Gamgee believed Frodo to be dead outside Shelob's Lair, he left the shirt with Frodo. It saved Frodo's life again when an Orc-arrow struck him while escaping Moria, and again when he was struck by another Orc-arrow while crossing the River Anduin. In Moria, the mail saved Frodo's life when he was hit by an Orc spear during the battle in the Chamber of Mazarbul. Later, he gave the shirt to Frodo Baggins when the younger hobbit embarked on his quest in The Lord of The Rings. It shone like moonlit silver, and was studded with white gems.īilbo wore the mithril shirt during the Battle of the Five Armies, and took it with him when he left the Shire. It was close-woven of many rings, as supple almost as linen, cold as ice, and harder than steel. He unwound several folds of old cloth, and held up a small shirt of mail. It was later estimated by Gandalf that the value of this mithril-coat was "greater than the value of the whole Shire and everything in it." "Also there is this!" said Bilbo, bringing out a parcel which seemed to be rather heavy for its size. Of all items made of mithril, the most famous is the "small shirt of mail" retrieved from the hoard of the dragon Smaug, and given to Bilbo Baggins by Thorin Oakenshield. After the Dwarves abandoned Moria and production of new mithril stopped entirely, it became priceless. Before Moria was abandoned by the Dwarves, while it was still being actively mined, mithril was worth ten times its weight in gold. Once the Balrog destroyed the kingdom of the Dwarves at Khazad-dûm, the only source of new mithril ore was cut off. In Tolkien's Middle-earth, mithril is extremely rare by the end of the Third Age, as it was now found only in Khazad-dûm. It is implied at one point that the "moon-letters" featured in The Hobbit were also composed of ithildin. The West Gate of Moria bore inlaid ithildin designs and runes. It was visible only by starlight or moonlight. The Noldor of Eregion made an alloy out of it called ithildin ("star moon"), which was used to decorate gateways and portals. Its beauty was like to that of common silver, but the beauty of mithril did not tarnish or grow dim." 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. The wizard Gandalf explained mithril to others while passing through Khazad-dûm: " Mithril! All folk desired it. 4 Other mithril objects in Tolkien's writings.Mithril was also called "true-silver" or "Moria-silver" the Dwarves had their own secret name for it. The name mithril comes from two words in Sindarin - mith, meaning "grey", and ril meaning "glitter". However, in Unfinished Tales he writes that it was also found in Númenor. In The Lord of the Rings, Tolkien writes that mithril was found only in Khazad-dûm (Moria) in Middle-earth, where it was mined by the Dwarves. In the first 1937 edition, the mail shirt given to Bilbo was described as being made of "silvered steel". The author first wrote of it in The Lord of the Rings, and it was retrospectively mentioned in the third, revised edition of The Hobbit in 1966. The malleability, lack of tarnishing and use of the metal in jewellery could also indicate a reference to platinum. Like the real metal titanium, it is silvery and stronger than steel but much lighter in weight. Please help rewrite it to explain the fiction more clearly and provide non-fictional perspective. This article describes a work or element of fiction in a primarily in-universe style. ![]()
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