Gandalf from Tolkien's Fellowship of the Ring says: "Mithril! All folk desired it. It could be beaten like copper and polished like glass; and the Dwarves could make of it a metal, lighter and yet harder than tempered steel. Its beauty was like to that of common silver, but the beauty of mithril did not tarnish or grow dim. The Elves dearly loved it, and among many uses they made of it ithildin, starmoon, which you saw upon the doors. Bilbo had a corslet of mithril-rings that Thorin gave him. I wonder what became of it? Gathering dust still in Michel Delving Museum, I supposed." It is also referred to as Moria-silver or true-silver.