The Revived Tolkien Trivia

Then he called those tidings good; for the dragon lay at Cabed-en-Aras, where the river ran in a deep and narrow gorge that a hunted deer might overleap, and Turambar thought that that he would seek no further, but would attempt to pass over the gorge.
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Silmarillion, XXI Of Turin Turambar

I think you mean what lay there is the river and Glaurung? Or maybe you mean besides the dragon the corpse of Hunthor? Frankly, I'm not sure what you mean with two names...
 
I really wanted the name of the river, and that of the dragon - but that's close enough.

You to go...and here's your shiny, ringy thing...:D
 
Thread's stalled, Marky....I don't know, and no-one else seems to either!
 
I'm very disappointed, Mr Pyan!

'The strongest must seek a way, say you? But I say: let a ploughman plough, but choose an otter for swimming, and for running light over grass and leaf or over snow-an Elf.'
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The Ring Goes South

I don't have anything better to ask, so Mr Pyan, your go!
 
Ok, then, an easy one....

Where was Faramir's maternal grandfather from?
 
Frodo, at the top of the Tower of Cirith Ungol.
It was Frodo

He was naked, lying as if in a swoon on a heap of filthy rags: his arm was flung up, shielding his head, and across his side there ran an ugly whip-weal.
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LotR - RotK - Book VI - The Tower of Cirith Ungol
 
Damnit, I thought it was that part, but I didn't have a copy here to check. Damnit. Ah, well, at least I finally knew one.
 
*ting*

Try this...

Who are Messrs Grubb, Grubb and Burrowes?
 
If he was surprised, they were more surprised still. He had arrived back in the middle of an auction! There was a large notice in black and red hung on the gate stating that on June the Twenty-second Messrs. Grubb, Grubb, and Burrowes would sell by auction the effects of the late Bilbo Baggins Esquire, of Bag End, Underhill, Hobbiton.
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They are Auctioneers.

From The Hobbit - The last Stage (page 276 in my copy)
 
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