As would any emissary. "I've enough ale to do for myself at the moment, but I thank you for the thought," Gimli says. "Now, about these chains- just at the moment I've two swords in the fires, and the metal's jealous stuff indeed. Mithril, if you've heard of it- it ill betides a smith to go from that to iron and back again in a day, or even a week. But something might be done should the swords be finished at any time soon. Just how long, and how heavy, would the chains have to be?"