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Auraestus wrote: Of eregion, not Moria, Tolkien said the dwarves were the only ones to make Mithril a metal.

People read the fellowship of the ring, all races desire mithril, it isn't wasn't the forging and crafting they couldn't do but the mining because the dwarves controlled the misties.