Why Did Sauron Really Want All That Mithril?
494K views · Feb 5, 2025 · Entertainment
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@skatemetrix · 1 year ago
To bring forth a new evil: fractional reserve banking with mithril deposits.
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@Wolfeson28 · 1 year ago
<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TNFBchgK3w0&t=260">4:20</a> One small point: Merry's Barrow-blade <b>doesn't</b> actually pierce the Witch-King's armor. The exact quote is "Merry's sword had stabbed him from behind, shearing through the black mantle, and passing up beneath the hauberk had pierced the sinew behind his mighty knee." The mantle is not armor - it's just the black cloth hooded robe that the Witch-King wears. The armor is his hauberk - a long chainmail shirt which usually extends down to the knee at most. Merry's sword doesn't penetrate the hauberk, it passes "up beneath" the hauberk - as in under its lower edge - exactly as one would expect from a hobbit crawling on the ground attacking someone taller than a typical human (the earlier passage describes the Witch-King as "towering over" Eowyn).
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@t_k_blitz4837 · 1 year ago
Tolkein: “This is dark and horrifying, and should never be read by children!”<br><br>Me reading it as a child: “This is the most awesome thing ever!“
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@cofeman347 · 1 year ago
If you want an idea of what Sauron might have done, look at Lego LOTR:<br>-Mithil swords<br>-Mithril fireworks<br>-Mithril fishing rods<br><br>Truly horrific stuff
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@10asterisks · 1 year ago
100% Sauron was planning on a Mithril Gundam to battle the threat from the east - Godzilla!!!
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@matthewcreelman1347 · 1 year ago
I like the idea that Sauron’s mithril was for use against the Valar if and when they showed up.
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@joshmaggard6 · 1 year ago
<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TNFBchgK3w0&t=625">10:25</a> “never shows us exactly what those weapons were like”. Sauron making freaking mithril atomic bombs.
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@towarzysztatar7961 · 1 year ago
He was a smith and craftsman above all else, no wonder why mithrill was precious to him.
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@defeatSpace · 1 year ago
"Sauron, the speculative investor.." 😂
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@classreductionist · 1 year ago (edited)
At the very least I assume Sauron would want Mithril to prevent the Dwarves from making bad ass weapons and armor out of it and kicking orc ass all over the place. Mo doubt he had a much more sinister purpose for it...but denying your enemies magical metal is a good enough reason alone.
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@bobbressi5414 · 1 year ago
My wife and I always joke that the mithril shirt passed from Bilbo to Frodo looks like something an 80s era male figure skater would wear during competition.
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@samuelvine · 1 year ago
A theory I've had for a while now is that we do actually see Mithril in use by the Nazgul. You mentioned the Morgul daggers, and I think that is our clue. Glorfindel remarks to Aragorn that the hilt of the dagger that had stabbed Frodo on Weathertop had invisible writing on it, writing that only those with power in the Unseen are capable of seeing. The more benevolent Elves crafted Ithildin to be invisible except by starlight and moonlight, for example. And I believe that the Moonrunes of the Dwarven map in the Hobbit were related to if not actually made of Ithildin as well. So, we have two (possibly 3) items that use invisible writing for their spells, and I don't think it's a coincidence. <br><br>I believe that Mithril was crafted by Sauron into a spell binding largely invisible material that was then laced into the Morgul daggers. The spells to turn someone into a Wraith, as these daggers were designed to do, needed to be bound to their weapons of choice for extended periods of time and we see Ithildin do just that with the Doors of Durin. To me, it would seem odd if there was more than one super powerful material that could do almost the same thing as specially crafted Mitrhil. Since we know Sauron craved and lusted after Mithril I doubt he would ignore one of its primary attributes, to hold spells to a material. That is of course not all that Mithril can do, far from it, but I think Sauron would not be able to help himself in trying to "one up" Ithildin. He would have to try and corrupt Ithildin to his own purposes and I think that corruption of Mithril is what we see on the hilts of Morgul daggers.
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