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For whom was Bilbo’s mithril coat forged?
In Chapter 16, “A Thief in the Night”,
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Thrór returned to Erebor about 350 years before the events of The Hobbit. That would make Legolas very young indeed (for an Elf) had the coat of mail been forged for him: else, the Dwarves would surely have delivered it to Thranduil. By the same token, were the mail forged earlier than that, during the sojourn of Durin’s Folk in the Grey Mountains for instance, some 400 years earlier, it does not make sense that they would have failed to deliver the mail for centuries upon end while hauling it around. Surely it stands to reason that the mithril armor was forged for the son of Girion Lord of Dale, paid for with Girion’s emerald necklace, and delivery was interrupted by Smaug’s arrival. The magnificence of the artifact was such that Thorin, the Elvenking, and Aragorn assumed that it must have been for an Elven-prince – unless, of course, they knew it was, and for whom it was made, in which case Legolas is an awfully young Elf. |
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