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Thorin Stonehelm wrote:

Catfishperson wrote: The gate though... hmm... Is it possible that they pooled all the existing mithril left in the world? That does seem unlikely... Rather like how a man-elf hybrid was able to slay a dragon large enough to crush the Thangorodrim when he fell... I guess they could've recollinized Moria? Knowing dwarves, they would never melt down their mithril heirlooms just to make some gates, and it can't have come from moria because they left moria over 1500 years early and didn't recolonize it (save for balin's failed expidition which never sent anything back) until several hundred years after the war of the ring. Like i said, it's highly debatable because of how vague it is. Well, knowing Dwarves, Gimli would never have befriended an elf. I find it easily plausible that they would have used some ingots to get it. Also, Moria sent "good tidings" back for a few years, so it is plausible they sent back Mithril too. There is simply no canon evidence for it anywhere other than Moria. I cannot support this.