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Which seven kings does Saruman think Gandalf wants to control?
Just before Gandalf breaks his staff and casts him out of the order of Wizards, Saruman has a minor meltdown in which he accuses Gandalf of grabbing power. He makes specific reference to a handful of symbolically-powerful objects (emphasis…
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Are Jedi required to abstain from all sexual relations, or only from the ones involving emotional attachments?
We know that Jedi aren't supposed to have a family, because the emotional attachments cause bad dialog, wooden acting and acute case of turning into a Sith.
But are pre-Empire Jedi, as @Richard put in a recent comment, required to be celibate, which…
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Why was Han Solo on Tatooine?
When Solo meets Greedo in the Mos Eisley cantina, he tells him:
I was just going to see your boss. Tell Jabba...
Before shooting him and walking out. He doesn't go and see Jabba, so what was he doing on Tatooine, the power-centre of the Hutt's…
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Were the Smurfs the first to smurf their smurfs?
On Rick and Morty, Squanchy squanches some of his squanches with "squanch".
On South Park, we saw the Marklar marklar their marklar with "marklar".
Before those two shows, the Smurfs already smurfed some of their smurfs with "smurf".
But who was or…
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Could the Enterprise beam a vampire into a house she didn’t have permission to enter?
There's this article on io9.com asking this exact question, and I thought that scifi.SE would be the ultimate place to have the matter settled. I present to you:
This is a serious question that has been bothering me. We all know that in most…
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Did Dumbledore consider the implications of leaving a baby on a doorstep overnight?
Albus Dumbledore famously decided to leave Harry with his Muggle relatives. He left Harry on the doorstep of 4 Privet Drive with a letter rather than giving him to the Dursleys in person, probably to minimise the risk that the Dursleys would say…
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Did Eru Ilúvatar trip Gollum?
The Fandom LOTR wiki lists four times Eru Ilúvatar intervened in the history of Arda:
creating Elves and Men
removing Aman from the spherical Earth
resurrecting Gandalf
making Gollum trip
In a letter written by Tolkien, he stated that Eru again…
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How well-known is the theology of Middle-earth, in Middle-earth?
One thing that is notably absent in Middle-earth is any mention of temples, churches, priests or religious rites. There are passing mentions of Men who would "worship" Sauron, but generally the world of Middle-earth seems much less religious than…
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How could a raw, untrained Force user be so adept at using the Force?
Everything that I seemed to know about the Star Wars universe indicated that in order to be successful at being a force user, the user required decades of training and experience. Which is why I thought that the Jedi trained their pupils from birth…
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Why not let a dwarf carry the One Ring to Mount Doom, since their will cannot be dominated by the rings of power?
As we know, the dwarves did not succumb to the seven rings as men did to the nine - it merely made them even more greedy, stubborn and wrathful:
For the Dwarves had proved untameable by this means. The only power over them that the Rings wielded…
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Who is / was the "Lord of the Rings"?
Who is the Lord, as referred to in the title? Frodo? Sauron? Someone else? Or is it more of an abstract title, not referring to a single person, like "He who wields the One Ring"?
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Why didn't Yoda and Obi-Wan kill Darth Vader and the Emperor? Why wait for Skywalker?
Given their fighting skills in the prequels, it seems odd that Yoda and Obi-Wan Kenobi should decide to wait for the Skywalker kids to grow up. Shortly after the Episode III, it seems like they could have dispatched Vader and the Emperor all by…
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What is the reference Captain America understood?
The following conversation happens in the movie:
Nick Fury: I don't know about that, but it is powered by the cube. And I'd like to know how Loki used it to turn two of the sharpest men I know into his personal flying monkeys.
Thor: Monkeys? I do…
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Why was Gandalf afraid of the Balrog of Morgoth?
As depicted in the film, Gandalf appeared to be shaken and in fear of the Balrog of Morgoth, even just as Saruman mentioned it. Why was this so? Did they have any previous encounters?
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Why Do Jedi Use One Lightsaber in Combat?
While I've seen Ahsoko Tano, in The Clone Wars, fight with two lightsabers (one in each hand), this seems to be extremely rare for Jedi. We've seen Sith do this frequently, like Asajj Ventress, with two lightsabers. Darth Maul used a dual…
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