'What?' cried Gimli, startled out of his silence. 'A corslet of Moria-silver? That was a kingly gift!' ‘Yes,' said Gandalf. 'I never told Bilbo, but its worth was greater than the value of the whole Shire and everything in it.'
The good ending: Bilbo gives it back to Thorin to protect him against Azog's blade. Thorin lives, gives Mithril back to Bilbo, and he visits Bilbo whenever he's not busy with king duties.
Bilbo was basically the only one that held Thorin's sanity together after he became ill from the dragon sickness upon the mountains gold. This was the last time before Thorin's death that he was able to express his kindness and sanity towards Bilbo.
I have my issues with these films, but I thought this aspect was well handled. Even as the dragon madness ravages his mind, his friendship with Bilbo can pull the good man he was close to the surface again. We see it here and of course, in the acorn scene, where Bilbo so nearly has Thorin thinking clearly again.
Gandalf: "Bilbo had a shirt of mithril rings, that Thorin gave him." Gimli: "Oh, that was a kingly gift!" Gandalf: "Yes! I never told him, but its wealth was greater than the value of the Shire." - The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (Extended Edition)
It is greater than anything in the middle Earth , the three eleven rings were made from tiny piece of mithril yet Bilbo or Frodo doesn't know it's true value
Bilbo never would have sold it anyway. The sentimental value was more important and he'd already earned enough from his share of the treasure to fund his humble and comfortable lifestyle.
Always thought it was funny - that shirt is worth more than the shire. A 'kingly' gift. And Thorin gave it to Bilbo because he wanted him safe - but he didn't want to 'change' Bilbo So, he gave him something that could protect him - while still preserving 'the Hobbit' he met in Bag-End
You can hear the dwarrows laughing when Thorin says: "It's a token of our *friendship* ." "Friendship" yeah right XDDD It's even funnier when you realize the Company's actors didn't know they were actually filming and this was their genuine reaction to what Thorin said.
I think they were laughing at how the mithril fit him due to the timing, no? I heard them giggling when he put it on and looked down at how it fit since all hobbits are a bit soft in the middle
@@joylynch5204 they were, but when Thorin said that friendship line it was like a burst of laughing, he even glared at them for that. Which is hilarious. Gift of friendship my ass.
@@joylynch5204 I meant that the *actors* knew what was going on (Richard made a lot of lewed/suggestive jokes about the two of them and they were laughing bc they thought he was at it again.
The chatter stopped for a moment when he handed it over. I think all the dwarfs were like "Oh my god is he proposing?! He's totally proposing bro Oh my god XD"
Can you imagine being so disgustingly touch-starved and devoid of any good friends that any two men having trust and brotherhood comes across as "gay, they're gay" to your ghoulish, porn-addled brain?
Because that would have negated Thorin's reason for giving him this precious gift in this moment. Bilbo tells Frodo in LOTR that Mithril is light as a feather and hard as dragon scales. It stopped the cave troll from killing Frodo when the others said that the blow should have killed him stone dead. I think..by gifting Bilbo with this beautiful armor....this was Thorin's way of protecting Bilbo. Thorin is now King...he could have EASILY worn this shirt himself and maybe saved his own life from Azog during the battle.....but by giving Bilbo this armor to wear during the battle...he did this because he remembered when Bilbo saved him from the Orcs during the last fight in the first movie....and now, he wanted to return that favor and protect Bilbo from this massive battle they are about to face. He wanted to make sure Bilbo got home to his beloved Bag End to plant the acorn and read his book and live a long and happy life.
This was true mithril, not ithildin. A shirt of ithildin would've made him a multi-millionaire. There was more mithril in that shirt than all the dwarves combined had mined for centuries.
Bilbo probably wouldn't have cared. He already got a decent share of treasure and he was more about the simple life anyway. The armor's sentimental value as a memento of Thorin and their adventure was probably worth much more than gold or silver.
Durin's people discover Mithril -> Durin's people make Mithril chainmail -> Smaug drives dwarves out of Erebor -> Thorin recruits Bilbo to reclaim Erebor -> Thorin repay's Bilbo with Mithril chainmail -> Bilbo gifts Mithril to Frodo -> Mithril saves Frodo from troll spear -> Bilbo sucseeds in destroying the One Ring.
And in a way helps Moria to climb out of the darkness it was kept in. We don't see it in the movies, but during the 4th Age a company of Dwarves remakes Moria under Durin the Last(believed to be the final reincarnation of the first Dwarves, Durin the Deathless) and it would prosper again until the race of Dwarves came to an end
Bilbo didn’t know at the time, but I’m sure he found out later. Remember, he became something of a scholar and historian, learning Elvish and helping translate ancient songs of the elves, among other things.
He can build his own kingdom by that amount of mithril, remember Moria mining mithril never get those far in the book. And Bilbo has it by far the most equivalent of national treasure.
i just realised that this is the only mithril armor in whole middle-earth because all the sources are in Moria. They stopped mining it because of the Balrog. Cause if there was no Balrog, they could make tones of armour and have the best armor on middle-earth, enough to go against a dragon since it is as hard as a dragon skin, but i have a doubt that the dragon could be able to pierce it. What else if not a dragon claw can damage a metal as strong as a dragon?
Gee.. Somewhere I saw it in this section as a joke : Thorimn did that because the size just didn't fit into him... Then the dwarf said afterwards, " Token of our friendship", .. Which makes me not so having trustworthy feelings towards him. Especially in his behaviors in the last hobbit film, where more hostility towards Bilbo is shown. And that makes sense why he would then give Mini mithril armor to him.
It is a gift. In the book he was given various dwarven things, not just mithril but also hat and belt. At that time, they're not even preparing for the battle, they're not even know that Smaug had been killed by Bard
@@bluesheep7also the fact that the others clearly start laughing when Thorin refers to him and Bilbo’s “friendship,” and Thorin shoots a glare at them. Not exactly subtle.
@@tombryant7069 Well, technically it was. A lot of chaos happened behind the scenes that nearly cancelled the whole thing. They got through it, but almost no one was happy during the entire trilogy. I blame most of that (if not all of it) on the needle nosed higher ups at the studios who kept interfering with the production of the films. However, in the end, I really do enjoy the films. They aren't as great as the Rings films, but they have their own special charm that fits the overall aesthetic of the films themselves. Plus they cast the perfect young Bilbo Baggins.
@@podsmpsg1 Perhaps. But in the movies, we never have seen adamantium take the shape of an Armour. But we know that Wolverine's metal has a drawback . It is not heat resistant, under extreme conditions. So mithril is propably stronger.😅
I'm glad LOTR and Hobbits were made back then. If LOTR was made in 2022, LGBTQ agenda would have been push hard into it. Sam and frodo would be in love, Legolas and gimli will be lover, gandalf and merry too. Arwen and galadriel would be lesbian elf
Lmao, as if this scene and Sam and Frodo's relationship weren't super gay already. I would love it if you read the books, you would see the HUGE amount of homoromantic moments between the dudes. But of course, you believe that's just aN aGeNda, so I'm not sure if you know how to read.
Agenda? News flash: LGBTQ people are real people with real feelings and a real need for representation. But who says that applies to Tolkien? People should write new original stories with that kind of representation. No need to add it to adaptations of stories that don’t have it. Just get creative and make something new. If more and more people do this, hopefully one day this misguided notion that LGBTQ people’s existence is some kind of “agenda” or “propaganda” will slip into oblivion where it belongs.
Even though the bloke playing Bilbo does pretty well .. He does not show enough cheerfulness and innocence that Ian Holm did or the book's character. I see this as the writers' mistake.
