In Lord of the Rings the Two Towers, was Saruman aware of the Ents existence when he was cutting them down and using them for fuel?

A live action movie about an elite MIB-like group that hunt monsters in modern japan. Monsters could take all kinds of forms, I think the big bad at the end took the form of a jumbo jet, but the ones I wanted to find the film again for were more common ones that could surround a car with cries fr...

I finished the book recently, and I keep thinking about how Jud was repeatedly described as seeming younger and more spry than his age (83) would imply. It's never explained, but it seems like it has to be important since it was brought up so much. When I read at the end of the book how Louis's h...

Great movie where aliens wants to call home by way and say there is food here... Underground drilling. Blue gel that heals terrible wounds we're the cows. Maybe 70s or 80s movie. Saw it on TV. Any idea of name?

I've been trying to find this movie that I must have watched a hundred times growing up. There were standard tropes - alien princess, scientist father crashing ship into earth, combiner robot made up of 3 ships. The ending was the hero carrying the dead princess towards teh camera in the afterm...

I'm looking for the title of a book (part of a trilogy, I'm almost 100%) where a powerful Demon makes a "computer" out of lesser demons where :: thousands of demons that had their tongue in / out for binary data "firefly" demons in a grid to create a monochromatic "screen" ... in the books, t...

I've seen this on TV in mid 00's, but the show might be older. The plot I remember: A boy goes missing into some kind of alternate world There are some "garbage men" in white jumpsuits who collect trash and this boy hides from them In the real world he is put on milk carton box's "Missing kids...

When *Stargage: Atlantis" was launched, my wife and I started watching it, but we got tired of it fairly quickly and went back to just watching SG-1. From what we saw of Stargate: SG-1 in season 8, it seemed that the SGC was out of contact with the personnel who had moved to Atlantis. So we w...

I've been meaning to ask this question for a while, and I was wondering if other animals (e.g. pigeons, dogs etc.) were allowed.

In the novel Bowl of Heaven by Larry Niven and Gregory Benford, the editing is sloppy and there are many, many continuity errors. It's quite awful. Have Niven or Benford ever commented on the editing or production of this book? (22% of reviewers on Amazon gave the book 1 star out of 5, so I'm not...

From this question I note that pure-bloods are not actually really pure blooded according to the following quote: “So-called pure-blood families maintain their alleged purity by disowning, banishing, or lying about Muggles or Muggle-borns on their family trees. They then attempt to foist thei...

Trying to remember the name of two sci-fi books I read in the late 70s or very early 80's. The plot of the first centered around a rock star who transferred his consciousness to a computer (possibly based on a satellite), and whom "made contact" with a Russian telepath. The telepath was, iirc, a...

Trying to find a book I read in the late 70's or very early 80's. As I remember, the plot centered around a rock star who transferred his consciousness to a computer, and whom "made contact" with a Russian telepath. The telepath was, iirc, actually a "living brain" - or slices of - held in some...

In Middle-earth, Elves are bound to the world and will live as long as it lasts. Men are of course mortal, as are Dwarves, Hobbits, Eagles, Trolls, Orcs, Ainur (so it would seem), and, most importantly, foxes. In the early stages of the Ringbearer's Quest, one fox comes across the sleeping Hobbit...

In the Marvel universe, vibranium and adamantium are shown to be nearly unbreakable. Yet, in the Star Wars universe (at least in the movies) I have not yet seen a lightsaber fail to cut any material. Would it be able to cut through adamantium or even vibranium?

There has been enormous amounts of speculation on who or what Majora is. I find many of the theories to be plausible, but something that's always interested me is that we never see Majora him/itself. We only see things that he seems to possess—Majora's Mask, Majora's Moon, Majora's Incarnation, M...

My previous question Why does Binary exist? started a conversation which led me to this new question: How do long-range communications work in the first place? (I was wondering why droids had to speak Binary instead of using existing technology for other communication modes humans and other tech ...

Each time Voldemort split his soul to create a horcrux would it half in size each time, or, in his anticipation of splitting it seven ways, did he impart one seventh of his soul into each horcrux?

After reading a post about this, every answer on here got it wrong......it wasn't about breaking Picards will or getting all of the military info that the Cardassian Empire wanted.....it was simply control/power of another being.....he even tells Picard about a childhood event where he was bullie...

This book was about an astronaut studying an alien race. The alien village leader thinks he's a wizard or warlock, he also thinks the astronaut is a monster there to attack them. He uses ordinary things to make his magic and cause problems for the astronaut who's just there to study them.

I noticed the new cover of Entertainment Weekly, which features a cover of the actors to be in the new live-action Aladdin. With Will Smith slated to be the Genie, he decided does not look like the Genie from the original animated feature. Will the Genie be a blue entity in the new film or...

I read a fanfiction a while ago (probably at least five years ago) that I can't seem to find. Note, that I don't actually want to read it; I'm only asking about it because I find it mysterious that I can't find it. So if you can answer the question without providing a place to read it, that is fi...

In the movie Venom, instead of using webs, Venom used parts of himself to swing him to safety. And he also clawed his way up a tall building instead of using webs and "sticky hands".

Today I had a dream that I suspect could be a lucid dream. While I was asleep I suddenly fathomed that recently I dreamed a series of dreams that all share a common characteristic: I ate food in those dreams and I could taste the food in real life and to feel the real taste of the food. Is this a...