Some trivia questions for you all,......

I thought I'd open a trivia thread here. Not all of these have to do with the LOTR, so you're warned.

1. How many toes does a cave-troll have?

2. During the war in which J.R.R. Tolkien's son Christopher was fighting, J.R.R. wrote a good number of letters to him. One of these, Tolkien writes to his son asking him if he would approve of changing Sam's last name (Gamgee) to something else. What was J.R.R. Tolkien's proposed new last name for Sam?

3. What was the name of Legolas' grandfather, the first King of the Woodland Realm?

4. How tall was Tolkien's original version of the Balrog of Moria, and in that version, who broke the Bridge of Khazad-dum?

5. On Andor (or Numenore if you prefer) there was a small remnant of a Race of Man that was not of the Three Houses of Numenoreans. What were they called?

6. In their final destinations while they were all still under the control of the Free Peoples (Saruman counts as a Free Person in this case) in Middle-earth, where were the Seven Seeing Stones, the Palantiri placed?

7. What is the only kind of Hobbit that is generally good at boating, swimming and fishing?

8. What kind of Hobbit was Smeagol believed to be before his mutation?

9. According to this person, he would be the one to rule over Sauron's enemies once Sauron got the Ring. Who was this person?

10. Where are the hill-trolls known to live exactly?

Once enough people have had their guess, I will announce the answers and you can see if you got them all right.