[Oberon]

Thrain, Thorin Oakenshield's father and the son of Thror.

I remembered it being Dain, young dwarf though he was.

Frodo's father was Drogo Baggins, and his mother was a Brandybuck...Prunella? Primella? Something like that.

I'll have to sign off for a bit. This has been fun, however. In parting:

What artisan craft was "in the family" of the Gamgees, as Sam put it during his visit to Lorien?

[JenB]

Rope-making. And good because it's hard to think up trivia.