i dunno-i think Ebony could have a point. mithril may not be aluminum, but it might be based on it, since i remember reading in a science book about aluminum, and how this one scientist was presented a vase of aluminum, before the process for getting it cheaply was discovered, and how valuable it was. this i think was perhaps around JRRT's time (i read this like a year or two ago). so yes, i think Tolkien may have based mithril on aluminum.
another thought: if mithril chain mail was so darn valuable, what d'you think that full mithril plate would cost? chew on that, fellows.
[ February 02, 2003: Message edited by: Demloth of Dol Amroth ]
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