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102 votes

Was the title "The Lord of the Rings" picked on purpose to be ambiguous?

79 votes

Why is Aragorn so weird to Pippin when they make their final farewell before going back to the Shire?

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Did H. G. Wells use an emoticon in “The Time Machine”?

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Why don't Mr. Bennet's daughters get to inherit the Longbourn estate?

36 votes
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Bilbo’s song of Eärendil in “The Fellowship of the Ring”

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What is the pun in Kipling's poem "The Three-Decker"?

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What is the earliest reference in fiction to a government-approved thieves guild?

31 votes

Who "dribbled a lot and wasn’t allowed anything sharp" in "Good Omens"?

31 votes
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Story where professor claims a step in a proof "is obvious" when it is far from obvious

29 votes

What translation/version of the Bible would Chaucer have read?

28 votes

Bilbo’s song of Eärendil in “The Fellowship of the Ring”

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"My father declared he should invent a slip button"

27 votes

What is the source of "You can achieve a lot with hate, but even more with love" (Shakespeare?)

26 votes

Why would Henry want to close the breach?

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Was it common that the bridges of ditches or creeks had guarding gates in 1924?

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Story about a man who bets his head but not his neck with the devil

24 votes

What does "skimmish" mean, in this eye dialect?

24 votes

In which version of "Snow White" is her name really "Lips Red as Blood, Hair Black as Ebony, Skin White as Snow"?

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Why does the prophecy imply Macbeth has to murder the king?

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How did contemporary readers respond to coincidence in 19th century novels?

23 votes

Why does Valentine refer to her father's second wife as her "mother-in-law"?

23 votes

Does Gandalf ever say this in the book "The Hobbit", or is it made up for the movie?

23 votes
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What does "if the court knows herself" mean?

22 votes
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Where was the Odyssean Ithaca?

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What's the meaning of Tom Bombadil's poem?

21 votes

How do these lines in Shakespeare's Sonnet 151 mean what they're supposed to?

21 votes

In what Chinese fairy tale does a painter disappear into his own painting?

21 votes

Were English poets of the sixteenth century aware of the Great Vowel Shift?

20 votes

Origin of “Good books are the warehouses of ideas”, attributed to H. G. Wells on commemorative £2 coin?

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What is a "three-part moon"?

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