In this movie, a boy or a teen somehow ends up in the Arthurian period. He wears glasses and has a knack with inventions and gadgets. He almost gets executed by King Arthur, but he performs a magic to block the sun and gets out, which even the fireball-hurling Merlin finds amazing. He also perfor...

I did try this question on Arqade, but it got closed as off topic since I don't have an image to work with. I remember having a game on the NES back in the early 90s where you were managing a galactic empire. You were in space, but could manage resources from different planets, and could trade b...

First movie ends with Smaug being awoken my bird who was knocking on a wall with snail, right? So... was the Smaug awake when Bilbo entered Erebor halls to find the Arkenstone on the 2nd movie? As on extended version scene: Gandalf tells Thrain that he would be very proud of Thorin, and his quest...

I've always wondered do the comics or other works in the Buffyverse shed light on events that occur after S5:E22 "The Gift" and before "S6:E1 "Bargaining Part 1"? I assume that this is a two or three month period reflecting the typical summer vacation for the show since each season seems to stic...

The fic is about Harry finding out that he is not Lily or James's kid through a letter that tells him to find his uncle by going to this store and say he is looking for something to do with Prince. Turns out he is Severus's nephew that was missing. I remember the part of the story which Harry is ...

Which Conan the Barbarian book involves his son Conn being seduced by a girl? There might be another aspect of the story that involves a priest or a druid.

Joachim told Khan right before the final battle the Wrath of Khan how starships are affected by nebulae. This was about when Admiral Kirk taunted Khan into following him into the Mutara Nebula where the wounded Enterprise would be a match for the Reliant. Joa...

In Harry Potter book 3 (Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban), the Weasleys, Harry and Hermione were staying in the Leaky Cauldron the day before they board on Hogwarts Express (1st September). Still on the station, Mrs. Weasley handed out their sandwiches to them out of her handbag. "I...

In the beginning of Episode 5 of Season 1, Sabrina goes to her aunts for help with the demon Batibat, who she has unwittingly released from the Achernon Configuration. They help her by having Zelda capture Batibat in an urn, but Batibat tortures them in their dreams later that night. The Spellman...

Is there any list of every single person (at least these important to the story) who died during battle of Hogwarts in Harry Potter? It would be fine to also know how did they die and by whom they have been killed.

Given the intensity of Fiendfyre as seen in The Deathly Hallows, how come the room of requirement contained the fire, and prevented it from consuming the whole castle?

As we know, in Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows part 1, Antonin Dolohov and Thorfinn Rowle attacked Harry Potter, Hermione Granger, and Ron Weasley at Tottenham Court Road, but they were defeated and their memory was wiped by Memory Charm. According to this, Remus Lupin has been killed by th...

In earth many years ago monkeys evolved in to humans and humans are considered to be the intelligent species in earth, likewise in other planets if same animals are present in a planet say earth x . If monkeys doesn't evolve in to human beings then what other animals would have evolved in to inte...

I've been looking for this story off and on for the past year, to no avail; I think it's pretty recent, published in the past 20 years or so. I read a lot of short story anthologies but I can't find this one :/ The main character (a mercenary type) and side-kick (who IIRC is a human who's in th...

When I was a child in the 70s I would stay with my grand parents and read children's sci fi. They had a particular book containing a collection of short stories one of which was about a guy who's job was to fly around space cleaning the teeth of giant space creatures. He was so small that he wa...

In theThe Hobbit Lord of the Rings series, there are many descriptions of dwarves. But there isn't any mention of female dwarves. Is there any in-universe mention of female dwarves? If there isn't, then how do they reproduce? Is there any explanation from Tolkien?

Old movie I watched as a kid around the early 2000’s. Movie looked older. I only remember a scene as follows: there’s a dad and son eating and a giant woman wearing a dress/skirt walks past overhead. The dad says something to the son along the lines of “becoming a man” that day. I only remember ...

What I can remember; *Harry lives with the Dursley's, he and Dudley go to the park. Harry plays with a girl while her mother watches. *The girls mother eventually talks to Petunia on the park bench about taking guardian ship of Harry. (I think the mother threatens Petunia) Petunia agrees. ...

Here is the video: It depicts Sam falling off a cliff and Frodo following after. We notice two elves approaching them. What business did these elves have at the black gate?

I am trying to find a short story I read many years ago from an anthology. I remember hunters who time traveled to go dinosaur hunting. They were successful in that they did go back in time with big guns and brought down something big, but they didn't anticipate what happened next giant fleas an...

I’ve been reading Kull:Exile of Atlantis and Conan the Barbarian. Love them, but wondering if there’s a larger non-short story book by REH?

In the Stormlight Archive series, Kharbranth is a city-state independent from the bordering Frostlands. I've read the first book and don't recall anything being mentioned about its history with the Frostlands. Here's my question: Is it known at this point how it gained its independence from th...

In the The Hobbit and Lord of the Rings series many elves are seen. But no elf has any facial hair. For example, they don't have any beard. Why don't they have any facial hair?

I am looking for the title/author of a short story I read in the 70's. It dealt with a railroad built and operated by a blacksmith and his daughter. A time patrol is sent there to investigate whether it is an interference from a rogue time traveler. Sounds like a "Time Patrol"/Poul Anderson story...

I am so confused!!!!! How is Matt Smith not the 12th Doctor, David Tennant regenerated into himself and then Matt Smith. Then wouldn't Peter be the 13th because that regeneration was a gift form the Time Lords thanks to Clara.

I'm not the best read, but I have consumed some big fantasy works, chief among them LotR, Wheel of Time, Theogony/Odyssey/Iliad, and tangentially games like Diablo 1/2/3. The main theme among these works is the irreversible loss of splendour and an obsession with finding relics of power forged in...

Or are they doing an underwater resistance against Rumpelstiltskin? P.S. I went 2 Cleveleys Promenade 2day 2 see the sea ogre there and I managed 2 see it.

This question about Tolkien's mythology has been falsely closed as a duplicate of a question about one of Peter Jackson's movies. As a Peter Jackson movie is not part of the mythology that Tolkien developed in his writings, it cannot be a duplicate. Please undo the closure.

There's a book from when I was younger (it'd be at least 15 years old probably quite a bit older) I can barely remember. Fantasy, bad guys had magical animal masks/helmets which made them stronger and faster. The bad guys are raiding and destroying villages. There's a man whose village was wiped...

I'm trying to find a specific actress. she had blond, short hair in the movie she was in. She also had blue eyes and no wrinkles at all. She was in a recent movie, and I'm pretty sure it was horror

In the intro of the movie Contact, we can hear various soundbites: some music, people speaking, theme from TV series like Twilight Zone, and so on. Is there a list somewhere of what are all the soundbites used for this scene?

I read a short story about a man who always buys new equipment so both him and his son are indebted for the whole lives. At work his only function is to push buttons to check if machines work.

Was it ever explained why Space Station V, used as a transfer point from Earth orbit to the moon and other planets, was in a low Earth orbit rather than a higher orbit which would have been more efficient to transfer to other locations in space?

I remember watching a cartoon or an anime as a kid back in 1994-1998ish. Parts that I remember is that the boy could summon a really special rare robot with a sword or a flute. Don't remember if he found this item that summons the robot or if he has had it all the time. I think this robot has ...