Mithril
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Sep 23, 2026
Rick SandidgeHOST
But I don't
RachelPANELIST
have Mithril.
Rick SandidgeHOST
And we'll try to...
Rick SandidgeHOST
Actually, no, we'll hold its ground.
Matthias AustinHOST
These are the questions that don't have enough information to fill out an entire half hour of the show, so we group them together.
Matthias AustinHOST
And our first question comes to us from James in Manchester, who asks, My question is about Bilbo's slash Frodo's Mithril coat.
Matthias AustinHOST
Do we know who the first owner originally was? I presume it must have been for a child.
Matthias AustinHOST
And how did it end up in the hands of the dwarves in the Lonely Mountain? Well, thank you, James, for that question.
Matthias AustinHOST
Now, fair warning here, I don't think we have a definitive answer, but that's not going to stop me from speculating, and of course, trying to back up those speculations with as much evidence as I can.
Matthias AustinHOST
So to begin, let's take a look at what is said about the Mithril shirt in the books.
Matthias AustinHOST
It's first given to Bilbo by Thorin as they are going through the treasures of Erebor after Smaug has left, and we read this.
Matthias AustinHOST
Now the dwarves took down mail and weapons from the walls, and armed themselves.
AndrewPANELIST
You now
KevHOST
have Mithril.
KevHOST
Congratulations, the ermine has the best armor in the party.
KevHOST
Basically, it's like 18 needs armor, armor 20.
KevHOST
How much is that? Uh, 500 plus.
AndrewPANELIST
Can Damien wear that? What would it be Damien's armor class, man? What's it gonna make his armor class?
KevHOST
With the Mithril armor, it doesn't change your armor class exactly.
KevHOST
It might.
Pineleaf NeedlesHOST
Obviously, right now, I suspect I'm not going to finish those anytime soon on this character, but it's worth a check.
Pineleaf NeedlesHOST
By the way, in order for me to get to I had to spend Mithril because, of course, there are no mission stablemasters over in the new zone.
Pineleaf NeedlesHOST
I have a feeling that one of the reasons for not being in the network in there is because It was the top zone, and they did not want to give an easy shortcut to the main hubs for each of the zones.
Pineleaf NeedlesHOST
They were hoping that the players would actually reach them.
Ryan DoesHOST
Because he is not a, or at least we're not shown this in the extended edition of Return of the King, we're not shown him being a physical threat to Aragorn or to Gandalf as they go and meet at the Black Gate.
Ryan DoesHOST
But he enacts this psychological horror on them when he pulls out the Mithril shirt, the thing that Frodo was supposed to be wearing to be protected.
Ryan DoesHOST
And you see the hobbits, they freak out because they think that the hobbits That equals Frodo is dead.
Ryan DoesHOST
And this is just like a fool's errand, even more than it already was.
KatherineHOST
I forgot Frodo was wearing that thing.
KatherineHOST
Oh, the Mithril? Yeah.
KatherineHOST
I knew he wasn't going to die because he couldn't, but I thought, he's too injured.
KatherineHOST
How is he going to
JamesHOST
And where it comes, the idea of it is, like some examples that I can give, like in...
JamesHOST
Lord of the Rings, in the Fellowship of the Ring, Bilbo has a Mithril shirt that he gives to Frodo.
JamesHOST
And it seems, at the time when he gives it, it's sort of just like, here's an heirloom, here's the ring, here's all the little things that I had from my adventures, you know? But when he gets stabbed by the cave troll, we realize...
JamesHOST
Should have
Corey FeldmanSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
I'm Italian, dude.
Jim ScampoliHOST
I like that he- and he's wearing his, uh, Mithril vest still, right?
Jeff MurphyHOST
Yeah, yeah.
Mike SteeleHOST
Yeah.
Jim ScampoliHOST
Yeah, he's always wearing his Mithril vest everywhere he goes.
Jeff MurphyHOST
Ain't no ogre stabbing him with a spear.
Mike SteeleHOST
Mithril.
Jim ScampoliHOST
It's like he fucking...
Mike SteeleHOST
He's doing the I'm walking here in New York, but for Italy.
Jim ScampoliHOST
And he's wearing his Mithril vest still, right?
Mike SteeleHOST
Yeah,
Jim ScampoliHOST
yeah.
Jim ScampoliHOST
Yeah, he's always wearing his Mithril vest.
Jim ScampoliHOST
Ain't no ogre
Mike SteeleHOST
stabbing him with a spear.
Blaine DowlerHOST
But, yeah, just for the Mithra...
Blaine DowlerHOST
I wasn't sure if this was trying to get to the Mithril metal, which has kind of started to pervade fantasy after Tolkien came up with the idea.
Blaine DowlerHOST
But yeah, I was thinking more the mythical origins because they do have ideas for the planets and obviously naturally the mystery cannot be solved until they go to planet three because if it was solved on planet one or two, then we wouldn't go to the other planets and the book would be boring.
Blaine DowlerHOST
Right.
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