 The name "mithril" or similarly spelled variations (such as "mith", "mithral", "mythril") is used in fictional contexts influenced by Tolkien.Mithral is mentioned in R.A. Salvatore's Forgotten Realms books on the world of Dark Elves, Dwarves, and other Underdark worlds.Mithril is a metal tier in the online MMORPG RuneScape and its old school variant, as well as World of Warcraft 

A pastiche of the metal called "milrith" appears in the fantasy-parodying video game "Simon the Sorcerer" (1993), where a woodcutter is troubled by magically enchanted trees in his vicinity and needs an axehead of this supposedly hardest metal of all to practice his profession again.