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Encyclopedia > The Prancing Pony

In J. R. R. Tolkien's fictional universe of Middle-earth, the Inn of the Prancing Pony was an inn where Frodo Baggins met Aragorn.

Spoiler warning: Plot or ending details follow.

The Inn of the Prancing Pony was built along the old Great East Road in the village of Bree, near where the Greenway went north to Fornost.


By the time of the War of the Ring, it was owned and managed by Barliman Butterbur, a Man who was somewhat absent-minded at times.


The inn had rooms for Men as well as Hobbits, and in the meeting room Frodo Baggins and his companions Samwise Gamgee, Peregrin Took, and Meriadoc Brandybuck met the Ranger Strider, who would turn out to be Aragorn son of Arathorn, a friend of Gandalf who waited there for them.


There were also spies of Saruman present in the inn , and it was attacked by the Ringwraiths before the party of Hobbits left.


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But Gandalf and the Hobbits stopped at the Prancing Pony on their way home in October of 3019 to tell Barliman that the war was over and that people would soon be traveling up the road to his inn once more.
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