"Mithril! All folk desired it. It could be beaten like copper, and polished like glass; and the Dwarves could make of it a metal, light and yet harder than tempered steel. Its beauty was like to that of common silver, but the beauty of mithril did not tarnish or grow dim." - Gandalf the Grey In Mithril Miners, each player controls a family of dwarves working for a Mithril sword manufacturing company. Each turn, players take turns allocating one shift of their workers to various parts of the manufacturing process, and have to balance cooperation (in order to fulfil the company's orders on time) against the need to outperform the other families and have the highest status at the end of the game.