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<blockquote data-quote="Pauper" data-source="post: 6742722" data-attributes="member: 17607">Reviewing this thread, I note that we haven't quite met the level of Obstreperous Pedantry(TM) required for a Kalani-Pauper thread, therefore I add the following:&quot;Mithril&quot; is claimed as trademark and copyright by the Saul Zaentz Company as part of its acquiring of various rights related to &quot;The Lord of the Rings&quot; and &quot;The Hobbit&quot; by JRR Tolkien, dating back to 1976. TSR, faced with a lawsuit by the Saul Zaentz Company for its many Tolkien references, settled out of court and changed many of the Tolkein-esque terms it had previously used to different and/or more generic terms: &quot;halfling&quot; instead of &quot;hobbit&quot;, &quot;balor&quot; instead of &quot;balrog&quot;, &quot;treant&quot; instead of &quot;ent&quot;, and &quot;mithral&quot; instead of &quot;mithril&quot;.To paraphrase Chris Perkins, a useful mnemonic is &quot;my pal (who keeps me out of court), mithral&quot;.There, my work here is done.--Pauper</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Pauper, post: 6742722, member: 17607"] Reviewing this thread, I note that we haven't quite met the level of Obstreperous Pedantry(TM) required for a Kalani-Pauper thread, therefore I add the following: "Mithril" is claimed as trademark and copyright by the Saul Zaentz Company as part of its acquiring of various rights related to "The Lord of the Rings" and "The Hobbit" by JRR Tolkien, dating back to 1976. TSR, faced with a lawsuit by the Saul Zaentz Company for its many Tolkien references, settled out of court and changed many of the Tolkein-esque terms it had previously used to different and/or more generic terms: "halfling" instead of "hobbit", "balor" instead of "balrog", "treant" instead of "ent", and "mithral" instead of "mithril". To paraphrase Chris Perkins, a useful mnemonic is "my pal (who keeps me out of court), mithral". There, my work here is done. -- Pauper [/QUOTE]

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