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Not too contradictory of lore. But in fact, even more than you have said, it was used for armour, not weapons. There is no recorded instance of any mithril weapon that I know of.

I never understood why Mevans thought he needed to conform to the norm of Minecraft regarding mithril. It doesn't need to be able to be made into weapons. Indeed, a way to balance mithril would be to confine it to armour, among many other lore-related changes I could think of.