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I did understand what you were intending, but I still disagree.

Yes, it's expensive, but moon-letters were not a common occurence - not even in the more prosperous times of the dwarves. Besides, if a single pile of Ithildin created 8 pens, a single mithril nugget could be used to write eight separate books, which could each be copied as many times as is wanted. As far as the mithril cost is concerned, that's 32 infinitely copy-able books for the price of one block of Trimmed Dwarven Bricks.

Balance isn't really a factor in this. Moon-letters would not really give you any kind of advantage, aside from maybe sending secret messages, and they would not be the least bit necessary, so the worth is really up to the person making it.

Mithril is not the hardest material in Middle-earth. It 's probably one of the toughest materials, but I think Gandalf said something about it being extremely malleable. Also, even if it is really strong, it could probably be ground into a powder (that seems to be what Ithildin is) and then used for writing.

As for good players going to Harad, I don't think we have any indication that dwarves ever went there. While traveling to Harad would be a challenge for good players (which kinda loops back to the cost/balance argument), it wouldn't make tons of sense; why would dwarves go to Harad for something so apparently trivial? That is a long way for players to travel, not to mention the fact that players are essentially Ainur, or at least superhuman, and they can fast travel across an area in 15 seconds that would take a standard dwarf (especially a large group) many months to traverse.