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Author:  *Tamuril* [ December 6th, 2006, 4:07 pm ]
Post subject:  mithril/titanium
in science we're doing about metals and today my science teacher told us that tolkein based mithril on the metal titanium!
was quite interesting actually!







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Author:  Aerandir [ December 7th, 2006, 6:58 am ]
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Does your teacher have any evidence to back that up? Because I doubt he really based it off of an existing metal. Super-strong metals have been a common feature in fiction literature, so there's no real reason to think he took the idea from titanium.
Author:  Nessmister of the Rings [ December 8th, 2006, 5:19 am ]
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nice to know they're involving Tolkien in science lessons!
Author:  *Tamuril* [ December 16th, 2006, 10:36 pm ]
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hey don't shoot the messenger.
i'll ask him about it next time i see him.
we've switched teachers now so ... yeh!

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Author:  green_leaf [ December 17th, 2006, 1:55 am ]
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i feel that tolkien might have imagined things better than real world metals.

regards,
GL
Author:  hittokiri_bob [ December 29th, 2006, 1:17 pm ]
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Yeah Titanium isn't exactly light as a feather but it is hard so it may be possible that he did
Author:  Maethor en Galad [ December 29th, 2006, 5:05 pm ]
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Yeah it dosn't take a lot of resaerch or imagenassion to think of a type of metal that's super strong and hight. (though cool) But I don't know if he did or not. :)
Author:  Fíriel_18190 [ December 31st, 2006, 3:23 am ]
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Hmm.. I don't think mithril is similar to titanium.. at least not according to Tolkien's descriptions. Does ur teacher have anything to back his statement up??
I think it's cool to talk about Tolkien in Science though :)
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