In the fiction of J. R. R. Tolkien, Galvorn was a jet black metal (probably an alloy) devised by the Dark Elf Eᅢᄊl after he became greatly skilled in metalwork after learning the craft from the Dwarves of Nogrod and Belegost. The unique metal was as strong as the steel of the Dwarves, extremely malleable, and resistant to injury by metal weapons. Its only known use is in Eᅢᄊl's armour, which he wore whenever he left his forest residence.
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