What do you do to mithral?

[HeavenShallBurn]

I just e-mailed my sister who is very in-depth on Tolkien and has several editions and all hers say Mithril as well. It may have been an artifact of a particular printing or edition that was corrected later.

 

[Destil]

I had no idea that more recent printings spell it mithril. I originally read my father's copy, an old white-bound edition printed sometime in the late 60s intended primarly for america I believe.

 

[Joker]

I spell it as titanium.

 

[Darklone]

I spell it as titanium.

Now that's a huge difference (Material scientist speaking...).

 

[rgard]

Myself:

Crafting time uses the sp per week as everything else {big reason elves are the only ones who usually make this stuff]

For items larger than medium, weight by pound cost is the minimum an object will cost

Mithral Breastplate & Mithral fullplate keep thier Medium & Heavy distinctions.

Mithral Weapons are considered silver when it comes to overcoming DR/Silver.

Mithral blunt weapons do get thier to hit and damage penalized by one due to lack of weight. {A special 'curse' can add the proper weight removing the penalty].

Usually trade mithril for abyssal bloodiron!

 

[Drowbane]

Mine~

Mithral armor is changed down to the next lightest proficiency. Mythril Fullplate = Medium Armor, etc.

Mithral weapons bypass DR/Silver and deal +1 additional damage to a creature with DR / Silver.

~

Mithral weapons are still rarely chosen. /shrug

 

[molonel]

Mithral Weapons are considered silver when it comes to overcoming DR/Silver.

I use that one, too.

 

[Goblyn]

(stuff ... "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" ... more stuff)

That makes it sound quite a lot like aluminum (or aluminium, as some would say) to me; except for the part about the metal Dwarves could make from it; but then I'm not huge on metallurgy. I don't know off the top of my head.

But the glass and copper part: yeah.

 

[Nifft]

Mithral Weapons are considered silver when it comes to overcoming DR/Silver.

Me three. It's silver that's lighter than usual and deals normal weapon damage.

-- N

 

[gamecat]

I have no love of mithril chain shirts.

IMC, mithril is a non-ductile metal, as such, it cannot be drawn into wire, ie chainmail.