In The Children of Húrin by Tolkien (and his son), Húrin was bound by the power of Morgoth to a stone chair on a high place on Thangorodrim. He is later released after both Niënor and Túrin commit suicide, Niënor by casting herself over Cabed-en-Aras into the river Teiglin, and Túrin falling on h...

In Harry Potter and the Cursed Child and many quotes from J.K. Rowling, I think Hermione Granger starts to work at the Ministry in the Department for the Regulation and Control of Magical Creatures, becomes the deputy Head of the Department of Magical Law Enforcement, and eventually becomes Minis...

In Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince chapter 28, Harry finds a note telling that someone has obtained the Dark Lord's locket Horcrux from the cave before Professor Dumbledore and Harry got there. The note has no full name, only the initials “R.A.B.”. In Deathly Hallows chapter 10, we find ...

I was wondering if there is any mention in Tolkien's Legendarium that Sauron knew about the prophecy that Smaug would be killed and that the Dwarves would then reclaim Erebor. If so, I was thinking perhaps this may be the reason why Sauron never bothered to travel to the Lonely Mountain to ask Sm...

We know that the spell Flagrate allows the caster to draw with their wand, but the drawing disappears after just a little bit of time. If you are to use the Flagrate spell on a surface (e.g. Hermione Granger in OoTP) and you want it to permanently stick or just stick (e.g. Maybe you want to draw ...

Does the Fire to Snake spell only work on an elongated fire? On the two instances we saw them being used, the fire's shape was longer than it was wide. In Dumbledore's duel with Voldemort, Dumbledore ensnared Voldemort with a fiery rope, and most or all ropes are longer than they are wide. In Mc...

BIG SPOILERS AHEAD! Picard died due to a chronic condition caused by a brain abnormality. Shortly after his death Dr.Soong revived him and cured him of the abnormality. What exactly happened? How did Picard have a conversation with Data during the time his new body was being prepared? I sort of ...

Spoilers ahead for the Season 1 finale of Star Trek Picard! In Star Trek: Picard's season finale, "Et in Arcadia, Ego",we can see a huge Romulan fleet pursuing the main characters to the planet of the Synths. It has been established that the Romulans are living in constant fear of "The Destroy...

Simple question, can a wight killed with dragon glass be reanimated by the Night King?

I’m going crazy trying to remember this science fiction story about a guy who is kinda like Typhoid Mary. He has been exposed to hundreds of deadly pests, but didn’t die himself. He just gets more scarred with pock marks, hardened and immune. But - he can infect everybody else. So he wanders arou...

In high school in the 70's, we read a science fiction book that, in many of the opening chapters, the characters recounted a history of things, referred to only by unintelligible strings of letters and numbers, that were killing people. A fair way into the book it is revealed that these things we...

I am looking for a short story that is probably really old (30 years+) and I only remember the rough plot like this: Several astronauts (I think it was multiple, but possibly it could have been only one) are returning from their trip to space. After having seen the stars, life on earth seems bor...

My story is set a few hundred years after the first vampire was made. No new vampire knows how they started, only they were turned by a vampire. Those old vampires would get killed off (eventually), leaving a new generation, the cycle continues on. Now, I want to try and have the vampire origins...

In the Rise of Skywalker, there's a point where Resistance fighters are performing an assault along the surface of a Star Destroyer, and Admiral Pryde reacts by telling a crewmember to "Jam the speeders". The crewmember states that the Resistance members aren't using speeders, and it's revealed ...

Though only familiar with him through Ghost Rider, Silver Surfer, and that atrocious Spider Man story (Sorry; I know we can all go one more day without speaking on that), as a kid, I envisioned Memphisto as a clearly more "diabolical brain" villain than one having any major raw power. Then I reme...

The X-Man Rogue's central ability is bio-energy absorption via tactile contact on her skin. Done for too long on another being, she can absorb their "life energy", and in the case of other super beings, keep their powers permanently, as she did with Carol Danvers. As this is a form of bio-energy...

When Crucio (the Cruciatus Curse) is colored, is it being foreshadowed that it will miss? Voldemort's Cruciatus Curse against Harry Potter in his duel in Little Hangleton after his revival had no color, and the spell was strong. But, Harry's Cruciatus Curse against Bellatrix after Sirius died wa...

Not sure how else to word that, this book popped back into my head just the other day and all the details I remember are odd. I would've read this around the mid-2000s, but I would guess it wasn't new when I read it - maybe from the 90s? I remember it being intended for a middle grade or young ad...

I recall reading (I think it was in the foreword or introduction to an edition of his Future History collection, published after his aneurysm procedure) Heinlein's claim that he'd burned an entire novel written immediately before The Number of the Beast -- in recognition of the fact that his ment...

I am going back to the start of the horus heresy books it has been a long time since I read them. I thought the first book covered the events at Ullnor, the moment the Emperor announced he was returning to terra and was going to name one of his sons war master. I remember a scene where Malcador...

Please help identify an old movie I watched as a kid. Plot (vaguely remembered): a group of people are trying to escape a facility (probably underground) and are pursued by a hard-to-kill / indestructible robot / cyborg. There are two main characters (male and female) who developed a romantic rel...

I recently learned about Cherenkov Radiation which produces an eerie blue glow, such as when viewing a nuclear reactor submerged in water. This effect was known about as early as the 1930's. However, nearly every representation of radioactivity and radioactive materials I've seen in popular media...

Rogue from the X-men is a utant with the ability to take bio-energy, and thus powers, from other mutants and super beings. At her base, though, while mutant, her genome is still essentially human. This was enhanced when she permanently absorbed the powers of Carol Danvers as her initial Ms. Marv...

Since the Room of Requirement has windows in some of its settings (multivarious appearances), would there be a change on the outside or is it magically enchanted like the Enchanted Ceiling? To extend the first part of the question further, if it caused a change on the outside, why don't people n...