Previously, both myself and KutuluMike argued that Thor's hammer hadn't been enchanted at the beginning of Thor. However, KValorum found a quote from the film arguing against this theory.
ODIN (CONT'D): So long entrusted with this mighty hammer, Mjolnir.
Forged in the heart of a dying star,...
What makes this tricky is, originally I posted my first answer because I thought my edit adding the transcript to KutuluMike's answer would be rejected for changing the post too much
@Tango He would never have such basic intentions. Barad Dur had some far more complex reasoning that we'll never know but only speculate to until the estate decides they want more money, release a new book and I buy it.
@StevenVascellaro about? Also I've edited your posts to how I think you wanted your links to link up, just check I didn't break it :)
@Ixrec Actually, I like that answer. When I was working for Trusted User, I was big on rep and, honestly, even though I don't post many questions now, I'm only posting questions that I think are worth having on the site and having answers, not stuff that gains rep.
When people play games for rep and badges, usually the quality of the content they post is not the quality it could be.
But when it comes to answers, (and I specialise in tolkiens-legendarium) I try to do as much research as possible to get as many upvotes as possible to get the gold shiny.
Sorry I meant that as one answer
So I feel that if I wasn't obsessed with shinies, I'd have worse answers, that weren't as good.
Callandor is also known as the "Sword That Cannot Be Touched", and in fact, no one can touch it until the Dragon (Reborn) touches it. After that, anyone – at least, among those who can channel – could wield it.
Why is that?
Is it because there are some wards that prevent anyone except the Drago...
barad -- ‘tower’ in Barad-dûr, Barad Eithel, Barad Nimras; the plural in Emyn Beraid. dûr -- ‘dark’ in Barad-dûr, Caragdûr, Dol Guldur; also in Durthang (a castle in Mordor).
@Edlothiad Hey, can you provide any research about that? Maybe he made up the name first and worked the words into the language. But if you could find something on it, that'd be an interesting question.
But I've not read very much into the languages as I expressed before. When I find time I'll get back more to you
I am of the understanding that he didn't make up words and work them into the language, but instead sculpted the language as a whole altogether. But I cannot be sure
@Edlothiad But every now and then someone who works that way might slip something in just for fun. Maybe it gave him a chuckle and he said, "Hey, that doesn't change anything I've written, I'll do it."
That's possible, but not much about Middle-earth gave Tolkien a "chuckle" It was his life's work and it was no joke. He devoted literally years to sculpting and changing it
@Edlothiad I agree, but sometimes, when it's 2 AM and you've been working your butt off on something that important, you need to do something for a release. Like the guy that put his shoe up on a stand and shot it as a ship for the big attack scene in Return of the Jedi - even if that wasn't his life's work.
@Edlothiad I'm not saying it is at all, I just wonder about it and I can imagine someone like Tolkien, or many other creative people, doing something like that.
@William Just a heads up, If you ask on the site it will likely be closed as "Primarily Opinion Based" Due to our future works policy (as in it will be answered in a future work)
@Tango I think there's a 90% chance there's something out there that could answer the question. But I know for a fact none of the people who answer on this site have the Vinyar Tengwar or Parma Eldalamberon on hand which is where it would most likely be. It could be in the histories of Middle Earth but I don't know
So is there such thing as dark/white magic in real life then? I know this movies are supposed to have some religious basis. Isn't Star Wars based off some eastern religion or something?
They are "killing the jedi" in the sense that previous jedi beliefs are out of date and Luke has found a balance in the force, maybe he needs some more dark side in his teachings to find a true balance.
In the Babylon 5 fictional universe, the Grey Council is the governing body of the Minbari Federation. Its members carry the title satai. Delenn, one of the main characters of Babylon 5, is a member of the Grey Council.
== Early history and structure ==
Founded by Valen 1,000 years before the Shadow War, the Grey Council comprised three representatives from each of the three castes - Worker, Warrior, and Religious - for a total of nine individuals. From time to time, the council had an additional member, a leader who served as a guide for the council. It is not known if this person had a vote or...
I think this gray theory is interesting because of Gabriel Gray in Heroes tv show. It doesn't specifically say there is Gray magic but it seems to be indirect. It seems a lot of shows have been going this way lately.
> In 1999 Fetchit's name was again in the headlines. Star Wars: Episode I-The Phantom Menace (McCallum & Lucas) included a character named Jar Jar Binks. Critics claimed that Jar Jar, a bumbling dimwitted amphibian-like character, spoke Caribbean-accented pidgin English, and had ears that suggested dreadlocks.
That word ("coon") can change regionally and within a few miles. My current house is in the city of Richmond, as in the Capital of the Confederacy. If someone around here uses it, it's a racial insult. I'm moving out somewhere about 40 minutes from my current house. Out there when someone says it, they're talking about an animal usually hunted at night.
@William: Do you embed links in chat like you do in the normal SE markdown in questions and answers?
@Edlothiad I avoid use of the word completely - unless I'm talking with people who are hunters and are specifically using that word to refer to the animal and it would sound a bit awkward if I use the full word.
@Edlothiad Overall, I prefer to avoid any words that could be ethnic or racial slurs, but in this case, context makes a difference and as a non-hunter and programmer (well, retired programmer), I stick out like a sore thumb anyway!
@Edlothiad: Although, for all we know "Barad Dur" may not be about a barred door and could be a really nasty racial slur!
After the success of Wonder Woman (2017) for DC Comics after Dark Knight Rises (2012), this picture trending all over the internet:
It indicates she saved last flop movie batman vs superman movie which is DC Comic by her success.
Which comic book has this image?
@William Nonetheless, it's really worth avoiding. I accept that you did not intend to cause offense, but it might be worth deleting that (or getting a moderator to do so if it is too late; that's what flagging would do anyway).
@William I think, in this case, there's no point flagging. I think, in the context of the discussion, it's not necessary. If it were an argument or something, or if someone had pointed out the issue and it was ignored, that would change things.
In The Flash, there is a musical episode that serves as a crossover with Supergirl and a way to further the romance of the characters of the Flash and Iris West. I thought that the Music Meister was quite a clever addition, as he seems to be symbolic of something. Possibly the writers, as he is t...
In the fifth episode of the Pokémon anime "Showdown at Pewter City", Flint (Brock's Dad in disguise) says the following about Brock's family situation.
His good-for-nothing father left the family to become a Pokémon Trainer and they never heard from him again. Brock's heartbroken mother trie...
Leaving this question somewhat vague for people who haven't seen the Wonder Woman film yet.
There's a relatively large plane in the closing minutes of the film that needs to be stopped.
In "The Parliament of Rooks" (The Sandman #40), Abel tells a toddler Daniel Hall a "children's story" about how he and Cain came to live in the Dreaming (pages 18-20). In the story, Dream and his sister Death appear similarly to Pop Vinyl characters, and it's really quite adorable.
(page 1...
In The Clone Wars, Asajj and two Night Sisters sneak into Count Dooku's quarters and use a poison dart to dull his senses.
Why did they not use a fast acting and lethal poison?
They had the ability to kit Dooku and poison him with a less lethal poison. Was this Asajj wanting to prove her skill ...
In the movie Wonder Woman we see that Hippolyta is mother of Wonder Woman. Also, at the final fight scene between Wonder Woman and Ares, she says something on the lines of "goodbye brother". So I figured since Wonder Woman is the daughter of Zeus that would make her a sibling of Ares. However, wh...
Been trying to find this book for ages since I read it around 2007-2010.. Iremember the plot being revolved around a middle-age man (unsure?) trying to find a treasure that was lost for many many years.
I think the treasure was buried in the ocean or something and thats why no one could find it ...
Wonder Woman in comics associated with World War II not World War I, but in 2017's film Wonder Woman, it's set during World War I. What was the reason for this drastic change, is it to avoid similarity form Captain America: The First Avenger or there any other reason for it?
The Pirates of the Caribbean franchise is comprised of five feature films and one short film, two book series for young readers and one novel written for adults, a number of video games, and of course the theme park attractions.
Most of these are shown in this timeline.
Which of these are consi...
We see in some parts of the movie that
Are the bracelets magical artifacts, or is this just one of Diana's powers?
On the one hand, it's strange that they didn't describe or mention the bracelets if they were actual artifacts. On the other, does this mean Diana could perform the explosions wi...
There are 2 kind of origin stories around Wonder Woman. First one is
Hippolyta got raped by Hercules and she gave birth to Wonderwoman.
Zeus gave life to the clay.
Which one is true ?
In the Return of the King the Rohirrim do a charge into the flank of a massive Orc army. Would a real charge be like that? In the movie the horses at the front cut through the Orc like butter, but they are no massive trolls, also, they have no physical support from the thousands of horses behind ...
So I installed Halo 5 Forge PC the other day in hopes of being able to extract models and textures from the game so that I'd be able to use them in Blender. However, after installing model and texture ripping software I was presented with this error from Windows:
So I'm not exactly siure how I ...
@Gallifreyan And if you send it to history, they'll send it back to us because it's not about real world history, and it will forever be trapped in a crack between two sites.
I recognize that this is actually partially answered here but I thought this was worth asking on its own for an answer that addresses it directly.
Maui is stuck on an island for a thousand years. We also know that he is an expert wayfinder and seaman. I'm not saying that necessarily makes him a...
In the movie Wonder Woman, we see Wonder Woman as a child who grows into an adult. During the same time we see the people around her - the Amazons - not seem to age at all. It's revealed that Wonder Woman is special.
The Amazons are, well, not quite human, but they aren't the same as WW.
It'...
I am trying to find the title of a 2nd hand paperback book that I borrowed from a mate in 1984.
The main background story is setting is various reglious organisations based on our current ones. Where galactic issues can be set in a combat area, the hero is a fighting monk, several different pla...
According to the March 2016 issue of Empire Magazine Wonder Woman is over 5000 years old. According to actress Gal Gadot (who portrays Wonder Woman) this un-agingness forms a key part of her back story and explains her absence for the past hundred years, that 'man's inhumanity to man' and more sp...
Florean Fortesque was said to be captured and subsequently killed by Death Eaters during the Second Wizarding War (capture happened in 1996 -- mentioned in Half-Blood Prince).
A few windows were boarded up, including those of Florean Fortescue’s Ice Cream Parlor.
What was the reason for th...
In the original timeline the five year mission was full of action. If we assume all TOS episodes take place in the 5 year
mission and that they span over the full five years, I guess every 2 weeks the crew of the Enterprise and mainly Kirk had to deal with red shirt death,
tricking god like entit...
Question for any Transformers G1 fans out there, why do all G1 Autobot leaders except for Rodimus and all the ancient Primes before him look like Optimus in a cosplay?
In Transformers Beast Wars II, Lio Convoy looks not only like Optimus wearing a lion costume, but before they land on Giea he l...
In the new movie it's revealed that Diana
So my question is: was Diana born in late 1800s? And does that make sense based on the mythology of Zeus fighting Ares and conceiving her as a direct result of that battle? Or is passage of time somehow different on the Island?
My ten-year-old asked me, if there was a duel between a magician from the Harry Potter universe and one from Lord of the Rings, who would win?
I couldn't answer this question and promised him to do some research on the internet, but haven't found anything useful yet.
Is there an answer after all...
This thought came to me concerning the star wars universe.
On our planet (earth) we have many different habitats (snowy wastelands, forests, cities); but in the star wars universe there only appears to be be one kind of environment per planet, eg: Hoth is snowy, endor is all forest and curacant ...
How does a work in sci-fi and fantasy qualify as a feminist or otherwise? Should gender based questions be part of the work and having only strong female character isn't sufficient? Case in point being the plethora of heroines running around in contemporary fantasy books but hardly any work can b...
I'm trying to find the title of a movie I watched around 2006-2007. It's a science fiction movie about a man and woman who wall in love and are chased by law enforcement because he is the clone of her son and she is the clone of his mother. I think once they get separated, the story repeats itsel...
I know this was already asked here but I didn't read an answer that really helped answer my thoughts on this. The biggest argument there is that Vader saw Luke with Obi-wan and put 2 and 2 together. however.... During this time, it was fairly obvious Luke was nothing more than a padowan. Vader...
Towards the end of BTTF, we see Doc be approached by a police officer. Doc explains that he's doing a weather experiment as he's wiring up the two light posts. Later that night the clock tower gets struck by lightning and stops working. Was Doc ever blamed for or suspected of breaking the clock? ...
If you read the lore of Middle Earth you would learn that everything has a spirit, even the earth, so maybe Caradhras is actually an rock/earth spirit and did not want to let them pass because he was a little tired of people crossing him.
Oh wait, I just realised you're probably looking for questions with only low scoring answers and no accepted answer, right? Yeah, you need the SEDE for that.
you could select all the answers to tolkien questions with no accepted answer, then filter on some answer criteria, then select distinct on that to get one row per question
it's cool because you're querying the answers, but you actually want the questions
Technically, you'd need to exclude closed/deleted answers as well, but I don't think there will be lots of questions where the highest scoring answer was deleted.
@SQB I don't think so. I like to pop in and see how people are doing/chat about the film when I post a review, and I'm pretty sure I'd forget to do that if it was done automatically.
In this excellent answer, user tobiasvl remarks
(...) had your question been "Where did the belief that Cthulhu cultists will be devoured first when he awakens originate?", I'd not have answered (...)
So where did the belief originate that Cthulhu cultists will be devoured first?
It does...
I watched recently "Pirates of the Caribbean: Salazar's Revenge" and one thing I do not understand is why one of the plot devices in this film is the idea that William Turner is cursed. Sure, it looks like a curse, but it was estabilished in the earlier films that someone has to ferry the souls o...
It is said in the films that Bootstrap Bill Turner was tossed in the water tied to a cannonball (or something of that sort), after the crew of the Black Pearl took the aztec gold. It seems he was already undead, therefore the pirates had to find his son to get his blood and break the curse.
But ...
It's been maybe twenty years since I read this, so please forgive me for not remembering if it was a novel or a short story.
It's the story of a girl whose father was either a Greek or Egyptian alchemist. He had concocted an elixir which, if drunk periodically, grants immortality. The problem w...
I'm losing my mind trying to find a fanfiction. Here's the details that I remember (that, when googled, won't bring up what I'm hunting):
1. Harry is pregnant by Draco and is abandoned by him(Gives birth alone with only his Healers and doesn't put a middle name on the birth certificate, baby bo...
In Season 1 Episode 10 of Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D., Mike Peterson mentions to Skye that he bought his son "Heroes of New York" action figures for his birthday.
Skye: Is that Ace? What a cutie. He must be so proud of you, his dad
working for S.H.I.E.L.D... Which he can't know with eve...
Written 40 or 50 years ago - a virus kills off all in the world except genius IQ people - two characters enter the picture: one is a teenage boy who is a world class pianist; the other is a girl of similar age who is in a coma for a few weeks. They leave and try to get to the West Coast, I thin...