Prices & authenticity

[chainbreak]

I''m new here and i''m sure this has been posted before, but i have a question that''s been burning a hole in the back of my head.

Wich of the following gems and such are real?
And wich one is more vulable than the next.

Please help me out i''m desperate.

-saphire
-ruby
-greenberyl
-diamond
-star ruby
-rune metal
-orichalum
-rainbow diamond
-moonite
-sage''s stone
-meteorite
-mithril

Thanks allot.

 

[sumi]

what is a rainbow diamond?

 

[MichelleCarmen]

Are these terms you picked up from a PC/Video game?

 

[mike04456]

Not a question I've seen before.




Real, in more or less declining value based on rough averages :


-diamond
-ruby


-sapphire
-star ruby


-green beryl
-meteorite




Not real or I've never heard of them, outside fantasy fiction
-rune metal
-orichalum
-rainbow diamond
-moonite
-sage's stone
-mithril

 

[pqcollectibles]

Wow Michelle, you nailed that one.

It's a list of accessory items in Star Ocean II, a Sony Playstation game.

 

[Hodne]

lol

 

[MichelleCarmen]

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On 1/16/2004 8:24:37 PM pqcollectibles wrote:

Wow Michelle, you nailed that one.

It's a list of accessory items in Star Ocean II, a Sony Playstation game.

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Whoo hoo! lol Looks like I'm good for something!

 

[winyan]

Hiya PC...

I think 'mithril' is the mineral from which elvish armor and weapons are cast.

A grin to your avatar.

win

 

[MichelleCarmen]

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On 1/16/2004 9:15:03 PM winyan wrote:

Hiya PC...

I think 'mithril' is the mineral from which elvish armor and weapons are cast.

A grin to your avatar.

win----------------

Mithril is Dwarven! lol It's strength is what saved Frodo from that cave troll back in the Mines of Moria

Michelle

 

[glitterata]

Here's a pretty hobbitskin
To wrap an Elven princeling in!

 

[MichelleCarmen]

"The Dwarves tell no tale; but even as mithril was the foundation of their wealth, so it also was their destruction. . ." p. 377 of Fellowship of the Rings

". . .the Dwarves could make of it a metal, light and yet harder than tempered steel. . ." p. 378

"The Elves dearly loved it, and among other uses they made of it ithildin, starmoon, . . ." p. 378

The Elves used mithil too, but the Dwarves were responsible for mining mithiril in Moria and Moria was considered the only location to which mithiril could be found, so it's just as much Dwarven, if not more so, since they worked their butts off to mine the stuff, which IS more precious than gold. Thorin, a dwarf, was also responsible for giving Bilbo a set of mithiril ringed armour which eventually fell into Frodo's hands and saved his life.

Michelle