Arcane Topic Warning: Part the Fifth

[Raynor]

Would they have wanted to fashion their own mithril weapons and armour or would the work of the Dwarves have been sufficient...or even better.

Some noldor went to Eregion exactly because they learned that mithril has been discovered in Moria; they particulary made the ithildin, the starmoon, which is seen on the doors of Moria. In Late Writings, Celebrimbor is said to have equaled the art of the dwarves in using mithril.