In the book, The Lord of the Rings, Tolkien often talks about the central concept of the Rings of Power, namely that the Great Rings preserve life. Gollum, for one, is incredibly old, having possessed the Ruling Ring for most of the Third Age. This makes him anything up to about three thousand ye...

The 1980s H-B cartoon The Snorks introduced the world to the titular society of characters; essentially multicolored, 3-6 inch tall, humanoid creatures who live on the ocean floor. Ostensibly "Smurfs, but under water," the show was lighthearted with a balance of character and story driven plots. ...

I remember finding this book in my dad's old college collection so possibly publish in the 50-60's Cover had a white or silver tower on a background of a lot of orange or an explosion A boy or man laying on his stomach on a silver metal plate that looked to be zooming from the tower. a winged ba...

Wen I was younger like in 7th grade or something I remember I picked up this book that was about time stopping. I don’t remember the name or the author, except that I’m pretty sure his name was James but I’m not sure, but I do remember this: It was about how two teens, boy and girl, (around 14 o...

Near the beginning of Freejack, Alex Furlong is pulled into the future by bonejackers. But their plans to lobotomize (?) Furlong are disrupted when they come under fire from a hit squad, and Furlong is able to escape. What was that hit squad trying to achieve? Was it hired by any of the major pl...

It's a common trope that once someone has become a vampire, that their minor physical ailments are resolved or cured entirely. What is the first instance of this occurring?

TV show about a woman who finds a man and they go on time travel adventures or the like. They go in something; I think it was a telephone box.

I remember a scene where they feed these moths a pork chop of all things. It was as usual a way to take over the Earth. I may have the wrong show. I have searched for "carnivorous moths" and "the invaders" but only gotten hits about real-life carnivorous moths (creepy).

This poem is taken from The Fellowship of the Ring, book II, chapter 1 (page 263): Through Evernight he back was borne on black and roaring waves that ran o'er leagues unlit and foundered shores that drowned before the Days began, until he heard on strands of pearl where ends the world the music...

Shermy https://vignette.wikia.nocookie.net/adventuretimewithfinnandjake/images/0/07/Shermy_without_bg.png/revision/latest?cb=20200421115050 Bandit Princess https://vignette.wikia.nocookie.net/adventuretimewithfinnandjake/images/b/b7/Bandit_Princess.png/revision/latest?cb=20190215173707 Are they r...

I'm more than willing to cut Larry Niven a break -- when Beowulf Shaeffer got dropped out of hyperspace in "The Borderlands of Sol" until The Ringworld Throne was more than forty years in author time. Still, I don't recall any in-universe explanation of how what Bram found to explain ships "disap...

In The Deathly Hallows (chapter 22 of the same name), Harry, Ron and Hermione manage to listen in on the Potterwatch radio show which is being sent from a secret location by anonymous radio hosts. At the end of the show the host (Lee Jordan, going by a nickname) says "Keep twiddling those dials:...

In the movie Star Trek: First Contact, the Borg Queen orders Data to destroy Zefram Cochrane's ship The Phoenix and Data then fires three photon torpedoes at it which end up missing it. If Data would have miscalculated however and the photons torpedoes had hit the Phoenix and destroyed it, would ...