Let's see, for a lovely Hobbitess? Hold on, let me see.
*rummage* *rummage*
Ah! Here you go:
Posted on 03/14/2002 5:07:26 AM PST by HairOfTheDog
Let's see, for a lovely Hobbitess? Hold on, let me see.
*rummage* *rummage*
Ah! Here you go:
Oh sure, "Mithril" from a Gondolier is like a "Rolex" from a NYC street corner...
She's already got one of those! But I don't think she'll mind another...
Gondor has no canals, Gondor needs no canals.
Mithril is ok, it's the Mithrul you need to watch out for.
Not hugely impressed (as if he had never seen it before). More like proud. All he said was, "You are full of surprises, Master Frodo", with the same pride you would if you found one of your children valuing that which you also hold dear....
I wouldn't touch that with a ten foot pair of galoshes....
Don't you remember how much Thorin and company valued their treasure? They would not part with a bit of it. Remember the Silmarils? A Dwarf would never turn down an opportunity to increase his portfolio of loot.
But, as I have contended all along. It's questionable that a Man of Gondor could have access to enough real Mithril to produce a catalog.
I knew it was a bunch... did we set a record?
Yes, I have the unfinished paperwork on my desk to prove it...
How many of those were Spam?
OK, while I'm in quote-the-book-mode, here's the passage as it was in the book (this after some talk about mithril earlier):
`No! ' said Aragorn. `We must have a look and see what the hammer and the anvil have done to you. I still marvel that you are alive at all.' Gently he stripped off Frodo's old jacket and worn tunic, and gave a gasp of wonder. Then he laughed. The silver corslet shimmered before his eyes like the light upon a rippling sea. Carefully he took it off and held it up, and the gems on it glittered like stars. and the sound of the shaken rings was like the tinkle of rain in a pool.`Look, my friends!' he called. `Here's a pretty hobbit-skin to wrap an elven-princeling in! If it were known that hobbits had such hides, all the hunters of Middle-earth would be riding to the Shire.'
`And all the arrows of all the hunters in the world would be in vain,' said Gimli, gazing at the mail in wonder. `It is a mithril-coat. Mithril! I have never seen or heard tell of one so fair. Is this the coat that Gandalf spoke of? Then he undervalued it. But it was well given! '
I'd say he was pretty impressed.
Most likely the record is still held by a thread titled "Am I Logged In?"
`What? ' cried Gimli, startled out of his silence. `A corslet of Moria-silver? That was a kingly gift! ''Yes,' said Gandalf. `I never told him, but its worth was greater than the value of the whole Shire and everything in it.'
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