So it says in The Children of Húrin by Tolkien (and his son) that the Helm of Hador — also called the Dragon of Dor-lómin — was made by the smith Telchar, who had, ‘in defiance’, put ‘a gilded image of Glaurung the dragon’ on the crest. It also says that ‘the hearts of the host of Hithlum were up...

In the Star Wars universe, Force sensitivity is clearly (in strong part) hereditary. Even without any training, one could assume Force sensitivity gives individuals an immense survival and reproductive advantage over the general population. Even if only a fraction of untrained Force-sensitive f...

WHAT IS THE MOVIE where kids find a magicians lair that contains some sort of special object (it might be green and it might be an orb, clock, telephone, etc) that perhaps helps them travel in time??? There is a scene where they are in a medieval setting and some fight is happening and there is h...

What I remember is there’s three main characters two boys one girl and they all decide to join a competition in Japan. Eventually the government delivers them weapons that best suit them.( the red haired male character gets a void lion claw, the black haired male got a demonic katana he can’t uns...

In Marvel comics there has always been world destroying and world shattering events which effect the world in very tragic ways. But has there ever been a mention of the economic effects of these events? Has it ever been mentioned that world market or economy has shattered due to a particular event?

(If i have made certain mistakes in the post please comment it, i will rectify the mistakes as this is my first post) By the word runes i mean certain structure or symbols used to invoke magic or related to magic.Language of magic is the language used to control magic. What I request is list of ...

It's a short scene where a character argues that watches exhibit all or most of the properties of living things in service of some other argument. It may have been one of the foundation novels, but I'm not sure.

I've just started watching Locke & Key and a number of the internal sets used for Key House seem very familiar, but I can't recall what show I've seen them in before. The Hallway and Study in particular are ringing bells, and possibly the Kitchen/Dinner though that doesn't resonate as strongly. ...

A few years ago I watched this movie, which is probably from the mid to late 70s or so, about a farmboy in his late teens that tries to rescue a kidnapped princess with the help of a wizard and a smuggler. The movie starts with the farmboy, who lives near a desert, meeting a hermit who lives in a...

I used to listen to a feed of a sci fi/horror author’s novels. He would read them himself. One was a trilogy about these alien beings who used some sort of spore to infect the human hosts. The mature alien looked sort of like a lily with eyes, if I remember correctly. He had another series about ...

The novel had multiple story lines including a young woman who has been handed from chief (who dies) to chief's son who is abusive. She has visions of the future and when she is pregnant runs away and leads a group of people across a mountain? There are also hounds of hell loose and the veil be...

Does anyone know title, author, possibly link to a ghost story, possibly originally in French, possibly intended for children, in which secretary (employee with desk job) dies, and after his death haunts his boss, who he dislikes because the boss forbade the employee of ending his letters with p...

They travel into the past, replace the accidentally deceased uprising leader with Sisko and go to the trouble of replacing his identity card at the end on one of the dead bodies. Then doctor Bashir in the present shows Sisko's photo still went down in history. What purpose does the id swap play i...

I can't find the movie I used to see. It was about girls-machines who thought that they will go to happy place when they finish their service. One of them meets some guy who tells her it's not true. They go together to some factory where she can see that old machines were sent instead the happy p...

In the short-lived [but kick @$$ awesome!!!! ] Swat Kats: The Radical Squadron, the titular heroes faced an impressive roster of villains, ranging from mad scientists [Dr. Viper] to undead sorcerers [The Past Master] to even mutants, robots, cyborgs and even aliens. Below is a general cast shot. ...

I remember that this fic started when Snape had to get Harry from the prison. He then took Harry to his house and gave him a lot of chores (I remember him getting a chore to fix the roof). There's a scene where Snape doesn't care if Harry had eaten or not, but then eventually Snape finds out abou...

I am looking for a short story that I remember reading from a book in the 70s or 80s (it was in English and only text) about Leonardo Da Vinci designing a big flying machine together with a friend mathematician (also Italian, I guess). They began building several machines with the shape of a falc...

I read it in an anthology from a UK library in the mid to late 1970's but it could have been written much earlier. Two or three galactic businessmen are sitting in a space bar lamenting about the bartender in there (please note that it could have been a robot but my memory fails) because the bar...

Imagine we had this incredibly powerful computer that can simulate our universe, and that we somehow knew the initial conditions of the big bang (or the planet earth) down to the exact detail. Fast forward the simulation we will uncover the many many secrets of the universe as we can see the caus...

I've been watching Star Trek TNG episodes and I noticed that several episodes end with Jean-Luc Picard standing at his ready room window, gazing out into space. However, the stars being reflected in the window don't seem to correspond with its location. The bridge is the "bump" on the top of the ...

In this Fan-fiction, Lex separates from Lionel,helps Clark to hide his spaceship in his plant, and they develop technology from it.

So I was reading a Halo book called Silent Storm and I came across this passage: "John could not quite understand what he was seeing on the planet below. From what he had been told about the Covenant's method of orbital bombardment, the aliens could glass no more than a few square kilom...