vendredi 26 décembre 2014

Looking for title on fantasy book most likely from the 90's


I will try to include as much as I can remember.


I believe the book series was a trilogy Main heroine was a female white haired Mage/sorceress whose birth was orchestrated by magical beings in order to combat evil mages/sorcerers. Her companion was death who I remember she fell in love with and she dies/ascends at the end if the trilogy after defeating evil. A very specific detail that I do remember is one of the evil Mage/sorcerer building a tower and using human remains as mirror.





How does the new Star Tours even remotely fit into the Star Wars canon?


Forgive me if this has been discussed before, but I have a giant problem with Star Tours, the ride at Disney's Hollywood Studios in Orlando, FL.


For those who are unfamiliar with it, you board a Star Tours 1000 starship for a likely tour of the galaxy when...


After the jump into hyperspace...


Again, we make a hyperspace jump and...


Considering Disney owns the canon to Star Wars now, and this ride is at their park, how does any of this fit into the actual Star Wars universe? Because it really seems like it cannot at all (not including the obvious violations in physics). The time frames of events make absolutely no sense.





Why do elves remain in Middle Earth?


Once there are ships that can take them to the Undying Lands, what is the motivation for the elves to stay in a war-torn, darkened land full of men and orcs and other undesirable creatures? We know that elves could become wraiths if they stayed in Middle Earth, so something would have to be of value to them enough to outweigh that risk. Their purpose as the Firstborn was to show Men the way and prepare Middle Earth for them, but many of them are not doing that so what then are they doing, what's keeping them there? Sailing into the West seems like an all around better deal for them and I can't find any discussion of a motive to stay.





Did Empire ever learn about Bail Organa's betrayal?


Bail Organa was killed when Death Star v1 destroyed Alderaan. But before that, did the Empire (or, Vader) ever learn that Bail Organa was working for enemies (Jedi and Rebel Alliances)?





Trilogy in which people have reverted to the barbarian ways, with scientists that overlook them


There has been a nuclear war. There are now two sets of people: the barbarians and the scientists. The barbarians are distinguised by the type of weapons they are masters of, the rope/sword/short sticks etc. In the barbarian culture, they fight in a circle to sort out disagreements and arguments.


In one of the later books they are assaulting a mountain containing the scientists.


This is all I can remember.





Did Yoda have ship on Dagobah to leave the system?


In the original trilogy of Star Wars, I never saw Yoda's ship (and, an Astromech to handle the ship, but it may not necessary). Was his ship intact? Or, was his ship sunk down deep out from his force sense? Or, did he need to make a holographic call to Bail Organa when he needed to leave the system (it's also a possibility that it was Bail Organa who dropped Yoda on Dagobah, assuming he could land his ship safely on Dagobah)? Or, was he stuck there permanently?


Anything from the canon? You can use the Old canon.





Story Identification: Movie with scary living trees from early 80s


I remember seeing a big scary cardboard cutout of a tree in a video rental store in the early 1980s when I was a few years old. I haven't been able to find any information about it. I think I remember that the tree had a face, and two of its branches were like arms. I'm pretty sure this wasn't The Evil Dead. Does anyone have any idea what it could be?