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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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.

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nice to know they're involving Tolkien in science lessons!

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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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i feel that tolkien might have imagined things better than real world metals.

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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

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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.

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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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