'For here alone in the world was found Moria-silver, or true-silver as some have
called it: mithril is the Elvish name. The Dwarves have a name which they do not
tell. Its worth was ten times that of gold, and now it is beyond price... Mithril! All folk
desired it. 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.
The Elves dearly loved it, and among many uses they made of it ithildin, starmoon,
which you saw upon the doors. Bilbo has a corslet of mithril-rings that Thorin gave
him.'
–JRR Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings II:IV
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