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What did Frodo and Sam eat when they crossed Mordor on foot?
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What's the big deal about the Nazgûl losing their horses?
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How far did Gandalf and the Balrog drop from the bridge in Moria?
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My time machine needs to know when it is
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Was Tolkien good at his day job?
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Did Aztecs know how many continents there are on earth?
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When did the Roman Empire fall according to contemporaries?
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Why was Frodo unable to destroy the Ring?
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What are the effects of slicing the Earth in half with a particle beam?
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What unit system does Middle-earth use?
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Why did Aragorn let Frodo keep the One Ring after Weathertop?
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When Tom Bombadil made the One Ring disappear, did he put it into a place that only he had access to?
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How did the general population of England convert so smoothly to Protestantism?
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What prevents dragons from destroying or ruling Middle-earth?
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Why are we building larger land-based telescopes instead of launching larger ones into space?
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Why not march over Rivendell and take the ring?
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If Sauron wins eventually without the Ring, why weren't Elrond/Gandalf in panic mode before Frodo showed up?
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Superheated bullets and the damage they would deal
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Why is Cryo-sleep considered harder sci-fi than FTL?
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Could an astronaut in a near-future space ship survive transit through our asteroid belt?
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Why would a fighter have a weaker shield than a capital ship?
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What are the safety margins for destroying a planet from space?
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Did Sauron suspect that the Ring would be destroyed?
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Why did Lincoln wait to issue the Emancipation Proclamation?
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Why was the Ring called Isildur’s Bane?
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What 80s TV show has a child trapped in a closet when rare sunlight appears?
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What happens if a Ring of Power is worn by a member of a race other than the one the ring was made for?
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Story ID: plugging vacuum leak with one's butt
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How did Frodo's and Sam's non-Orc clothes get back from Mount Doom?
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If prey and predator switched places how would this shape the ecosystem?
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