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When did Bilbo and Frodo learn that Gandalf was a Maia?

tolkiens-legendarium the-lord-of-the-rings maiar asked Aug 14, 2019 at 13:21
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Did Shadowfax go to Valinor?

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How to wrap the Moon in plastic to make her a giant, supported by the atmospheric pressure, greenhouse

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Storing hydrofluoric acid before the invention of plastics

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Humorous story in which future archaeologists find a motel room and they believe to have found a great tomb similar to that of Tutankhamun

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What was the liquor that was based on petrol which was produced in the USSR during the Second World War?

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What names did the ancient Egyptians give to different stages of their history?

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Did the Hobbits of the Fellowship of the Ring wear hats?

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First work where a traveler from afar arrives to a backward society and he tries to help its scientific progress

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How large is Cthulhu?

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Can droids be shut down manually?
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Could the Industrial Revolution be delayed indefinitely? Or is it inevitable once a certain point in development is reached?
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When will we send floating probes to Venus?
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Story about a book/writing invading our reality
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In the biography of Turing by Hodges an ancient Celtic tradition is mentioned of killing the last to arrive
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Short science-fiction story about a guy stationed on a stranded planet and a Martian woman who accompanied him
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What was the first plant creature?
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Novel centered on question of identity, man with replaced skull and hands
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How large are Imperial spaceships in the Foundation series?
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Why is Merry called "Holdwine"?
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Looking for sci-fi book name
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Poignant short story about doomed romance between human male and birdlike alien female
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In Francoist Spain, what steps were required for non-Catholics to marry?
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Weapons that glow when the enemy is near. Are there precedents before Tolkien?
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Has a major war ever occured and a map before the war looked exactly the same after?
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What was the first Giant Monster vs Giant Robot fight?
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How to get sunburned through the window of a General Products hull?
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Ghost story set in 1930's rural America
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Late '70s / early '80s Comic With Lizard and Woman in Wasteland?
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Short story in which three child siblings with superpowers kill all of humanity but are afraid of being destroyed in turn by their descendants
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If the Dawn probe visits a third asteroid after Ceres and Vesta, which asteroid could it visit?
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Did other American empires also fall to the Europeans?
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1980s/90s animated sci-fi movie where people trapped in an egg escape by dropping a bullet which grows spikes
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90s (or earlier) computer game where a troll turns you into a frog
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Plot to create a Northern Confederation of States in America about 1804
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