Prancing Pony

The Prancing Pony is an inn owned by Butterbur, it is the biggest inn in whole Bree-Land.

The inn has rooms for Men as well as Hobbits, and in the meeting room Frodo and his companions Samwise, Pepin, and Merry 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. It was attacked by either the Ringwraiths or their agents, possibly including Bill Ferny, before the party of Hobbits left.