Quote Originally Posted by The Magical Walrus View Post
Hmmm, perhaps.

But keep in mind that mithril weapons are not just found within Lord of the Rings or Final Fantasy. They are found right throughout mythology and as we already know, Square uses ideas from ancient mythology for names, etc.
Um, wrong. Mithril was Tolkien's invention. It did not exist at all before he wrote the stories. There was no mythological origin of it.