Board Thread:Suggestions forum/@comment-26172435-20170426191637/@comment-31907131-20170428010442

Look here. You say that much of your proposal agrees with lore, but I see a major deficiency. ''Only the Dwarves knew how to make mithril ore into mithril ingots. ''So no other person, without the secrets of the Dwarves, could actually create the 'metal, light and yet harder than tempered steel.'

Mithril should not be craftable or forgeable at all- not for any but Dwarves, at least. This 'mithril-clad' armour would require first the forging of the mithril, so it again is not possible.

The only way to obtain mithril armour and weaponry should be to find it very rarely hidden in Moria or Erebor, that or penetrate Barad-dûr itself and take it from the treasury of Sauron himself.

However, mithril can be 'beaten like copper' or 'polished like glass' by anyone, provided that they have the basic mithril unforged by Dwarves.

This will make it really valuable. As Gandalf says 'Its worth was ten times that of gold, and now it is beyond price'.