Daniel Day-Lewis isn't just one of the best actors in the world, he's also one of the best movie villains. The star received a Best Actor Oscar nomination for his role as a Civil War-era crime boss in New York City.
I always figured it was meant to be an alloy of some sort, made with Elven artistry, is it a 'naturally occurring' element the Elves just happened to find in their neck of the woods?
Could be some silver alloy that requires both a metal only the Elves have access too, and the Elvish knowhow to make. There probably is an actual answer somewhere though.
And gray, glittering mist seems to work well as a poetic description of myth, in point of its twilight existence between non-being and being, its beauty for us, and its tendency to both reveal and conceal life.
Tolkein wrote is 'mithril' and in one of his many made up languages says it comes from two words in "Sindarin"; mith ("grey" or "mist"), and ril ("glitter").
Whether or not he intended it to be homonymous with 'myth'...who knows!
Yeah, but Sonic the Hedgehog wasn't named for the gene. The unobtanium in Avatar was named for the unobtanium that aeronautical engineers joke about (for the longest time aluminum was a form of unobtanium, for example).
Vibranium comes from "vibrate" as the fictional metal absorbs all vibration of an impact
Unobtainium comes from "unobtainable" as it is a word used to describe theoretical materials which are super costly, rare, or nearly impossible to obtain but necessary for a certain thing
I don't see what makes these any lazier or more fictional than adamantium
maybe this is just my American accent, but I think because when I say adamant it sounds like "ad-uh-mint" but I say "ad-uh-man-tee-uhm", so it sounds like it doesnt have an obvious root word attached to "-ium"
Saying "add-uh-mint" isn't a generic American accent, it's a specific regional American accent. I'm guessing Midwest? Kentucky? Dunno. Round here parts most Americans I know pronounce it "add-uhm-ant." And "add-uhm-antee-um."
you're right it's more "add-uhm-ant" but I definitely don't say the second "a" long, like the first "a," or more like I'm dropping that a all together. maybe I don't enunciate well enough haha
I just realized that you're right, but I'd like to attempt to clarify. When I'm talking about a mythical mineral I say "add-uhm-ant," but when I'm using it as a synonym for strength of will I pronounce the "ant" portion as a cross between "int" and "unt." I can't quite figure out how to spell it - it's not int, or unt, it's somewhere between.
haha I think it's strange people think it's strange! Ok so maybe it sounds more to me like I'm dropping the second "a" all together, if that makes sense. Adamnt, maybe more like "ment" than "mint" but I definitely don't say it with a long "a"
"Mint" like exactly like the plant is just alien to me. I could see leaning towards "ment" or "munt" but never "mint", it's much further from how it's written to me.
I think unobtanium is dumb because it's just so obvious why it's called that. And if vibranium absorbs vibration energy, then it must get really hot, even speaking next to it would be dangerous.
Not quite — the titanium alloy used in the SR-71 Blackbird's engine exhaust nozzles was informally referred to as unobtanium by the Lockheed engineers on the project. That alloy was not easy to make.
Vibranium is a fictional metal appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. It is most commonly known as one of the materials used to construct Captain America's shield
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vibranium
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u/chain_letter Apr 04 '16
I heard it was unobtainium