Mithril Gate of Minas Tirith

The Mithril Gate was located in the city of Minas Tirith. It was built during the start of the fourth age by the dwarf king Gimli.

Construction
The builders of this amazing gate was Gimli himself and about 20 other dwarves that accompanied him from The Glittering Caves. The first stage of creating this gate was mining all of the materials which included mithril, silver, emeralds and sapphire's. This was one of the hardest stages to complete because to mine the amount of mithril needed the dwarves had to delve so far down they awoke one of Morgoths subterranean creatures. This creature was not like any lesser goblin or spider before it but some sort of troll sized creature. Gimli the discoverer of this creature described it to be always shreiking or crying and shivering.Upon its meeting with Gimli it quickly tried to attack him but Gimli threw it off him and quickly slashed at its arm which he cut off. But before gimli could kill the creature it ran back into the deepness of the caves. It was never found again but Gimli stated that he could always hear its shrieking. After the creature was gone and the dwarves had mined all of their minerals Olour the dwarves master craftsman started to combine and smelt all the mithril together which required a great deal of skill and attention. After 14 days of smithing the gate together Olour fell to his death upon completion of his work.

After the death of Olour the dwarves started on assembling the gate and attaching it to the walls of Minas Tirith.

History and Completion
After the end of the war of the ring and the main gate of Minas Tirith destroyed by Grond the massive battle ram, Gimli son of Gloin took a small group of his kin into the White Mountains, located inbetween Helm's Deep and Minas Tirith. Here he was named king of the White Mountains which he renamed The Glittering Caves because of the vast amounts of Jewels and minerals which did include the most valuable material Mithril.

After the completion of the gate Gimli and legolas entered the undying lands together and making Gimli the first dwarf to enter the west. To replace Gimli Olour's son ascended to the throne of The Glittering Caves by the choice of Gimli after Olour's son hunted down and killed the creature that lived beneath them.