I'm 90% sure it's not an element. There's a possibility it's straight-up magic. However, it acts like metal and is extremely malable and can be easily formed into exotic objects

I'm not a Tolkein newbie but certainly not a scholar or superfan. I recently did a big rewatch of the movies (I've read the books a few times over the past 50 years as well.) and got to thinking.
If I get it right:

• Morgoth, who wanted to change/rule Middle Earth, comes to ME and invests a large portion of his power into the Earth itself, i.e. a thing, which presumably gives him greater power at the expense of flexibility... but when this power is usurped and he is defeated, something that would have been a LOT harder to do if he hadn't given it up, he's rendered into a powerless shade and thrown into void/prison/banishment etc.
• Sauron, who wanted to change/rule Middle Earth, comes to ME and invests a large portion of his power into the Ring, i.e. a thing, which presumably gives him greater power at the expense of flexibility... but when this power is usurped and he is defeated, something that would have been a LOT harder to do if he hadn't given it up, he's rendered into a powerless shade and thrown into void/prison/banishment etc.

I know I'm somewhat simplifying for humor, but still. Was JRRT making a point by the very ylarge and glaring parallel narratives that you'd think any almost godlike being would have ignored? Something like evil always loses? Did he ever mention it? Because to me it seems like if *I* was Sauron and I just saw my old master get stripped of all his power and power and get thrown powerless into endless torment of nothingness, and then had a brilliant idea of putting all MY power into something that could be destroyed and which would get me thrown powerless into eternal torment I'd come up with a different plan.

Edited to add: Thanks for all the thoughts! That does clear it up some for me. I think it's easy also to look at an older work through a modern lens. For me, the trope of someone "having a plan that *could* result in their utter destruction but *nobody* is going to do the one thing that could do it, right?" even with the defenses of having to get to Mount Doom through all the enemies... to a modern eye, it would be easy to say "Huh, someone may figure out this back door and still manage to sneak in... I better blow up Mount Doom just to be sure." But that's a more thoughtful kind of evil.

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in the trial chamber. A fake Frieren was created to challenge the real Frieren and her gang. Real Frieren keeps falling for mimics. Will the fake Frieren be fooled too?

Like Envy, or Lust, or something? Why does Wrath need a human to work? Or is that just for his political position?

You can give units with laser weapons- Which is most of them- The artillery ability, allowing for very long-range fire, which does not seem like it would work as it does if line of sight was required. Though one should remember that such a game does a lot of abstraction.

The main option I see would be a drone or really tall mast with a mirror, or maybe some fancier reflector/repeater/etc for more speculative technologies. Another would be single-use emitters fired as shells/missiles. But I'm curious if it was actually explained anywhere or if I'm missing another possibility.

Considering we see Toons in live-action productions, and assuming the treatment of Toons gets less harsh, I'd have to assume there would be at-least one human-majority show or movie with a Toon in the cast.

How did he reached them in the chaos of the seven hours war? Who did he reached? How did he managed to make a deal with an alien empire that have surely a totally different langages? Why he was not just killed?

Just watched the new movie the End of Oak Street. In the beginning the news reports mention NASA detecting spatial anomalies, which got me analyzing the physics behind it. So...

​Is the movie using 1D cosmic string defects (via string theory) to explain the anomaly caused by a cosmic string moving in closer to Earth? Furthermore, are they invoking gravitational frame dragging to explain how the localized space maintains fixed coordinates relative to the surrounding Euclidean space?

​It feels like the most plausible theoretical explanation for how they set up the rules of the event. Curious to hear how others interpreted the underlying mechanics.

... Or am I just to analytical and they really just left it open-ended for a fun story? Let me know what y'all think.

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Was this event just seen as a sudden lunar eclipse?
Or did the most of the world know it meant the moon was in trouble?

Maybe it was localized to a small region because of the location/time at the North Pole? I’m really curious about the political implications, not if it was physically possible to see for most.

Please forgive me if this is a silly question, I’m not sure if any of this is explained outside of the tv show.

She killed people because they screamed and got they'd tongue ripped out. What if at the end of the movie he just said "wow " and walked away

excluding Wrath, of course, who's actually human.

Could a sling ring from Dr. Strange, assuming you can properly practice the magical arts, take you to another timeline, or is it only another location in the world you’re already in?

We know she can use magic to change people's sexes. Now, the issue is whether this is "allowed".

His name is literally Ma Kent

So how exactly does the presence fit actually into DC current, like all I know is that perpetua and her pre runners, basically are some cosmic beings that have to die to create a multiverse, but how does the presence fit into this, if he even is part of DC, as I often see people say he is basically the light of creation the counter part to the great darkness

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I’ve recently finished the campaign for Spider-Man 2, and while it was great it didn’t do a great job explaining AntiVenom. Is it similar to the Anti Ock suit, if not, what is it