just wondering if anybody out there come across books or other minor items that can't be droped traded or sold and you don't know the quest giver is before you get the quest. becouse every once and awhile i grab a item or more that i don't know who the quest giver is. like now i have 6 or 7 giant toes and 1 book that idk who the quest giver is or know were that npc is at. and yes im playing without a stragy book and playing the pc version with mods.

Yeah, I've got some guys Bow that I have no idea what quest it's related to. It's not in my journal and I can't get rid of it either; in fact, there are lots of items that I can't get rid of.

if it's the bow im thinking it is it's a bow owned by a elf that owns a farm outside of riften. if it's a bow you got from the part of the riften Sewers. try there i can't rember the npc name. mine idk who the items belong to or the quest giver is.

No it's not that one, but thanks anyway. I rarely ever go to Riften (it's a frickin dump populated by scalawags) unless I have to.

Its probably Froki's bow. Froki live in Froki's Shack in the western Rift.

I'll go check ... brb.

Back... It's Dravin's bow who ever the hell that is!

I remember having the problem with the Giant's Toe for ages. You only need one for the quest, but they all stack so every single one you pick up becomes a quest item until you complete the quest. If I remember correctly, you need the Giant's Toe and two other ingredients. Unfortunately, I can't remember which quest it was for (though I have vague memories of it being possibly located in Ivarstead.

The real problem you're facing is with the book, unless this was fixed with a patch.

1. No problem. Some books are the "quest giver" and you start a quest just by reading them. Two that come immediately to mind are Boethiah's Proving and The Legend of Red Eagle. In both those cases, and presumably others, the title of the book is reflected in the quest name/objective (go to Boethiah's Temple, go to Red Eagle Redoubt).

2. Problem. Some books are the targets of Radiant Quests but they are static items, sometimes in locations that never respawn. You may find yourself just exploring some random cave and pick up a book with some cool title and decide to keep it. Later on you are given a quest to go to that cave and retrieve the book. You can't turn in the book you already have and it won't spawn at the cave you're sent to which essentially breaks the quest. Again, I haven't kept up with the patches since 1.5 so this may have been fixed.

EDIT: I just looked up Giant's Toe to try and identify the quest:

OK, it's Dravin's bow from the quest Bow to the Master, but I didn't search further than that for spoiler reasons.