Which fictional inn do Frodo and his companions visit in J.R.R. Tolkien’s Bree?

Frodo and his companions visit The Prancing Pony in the town of Bree in J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings.

The inn appears in The Fellowship of the Ring, the first volume of the trilogy. It is run by Barliman Butterbur and serves as a meeting place for local inhabitants, travelers, and visitors from different parts of Middle-earth. Frodo uses the name “Underhill” while staying there.

The Prancing Pony is important because Frodo meets Aragorn there, although Aragorn is initially known to the hobbits as Strider. The inn also becomes the setting for suspicious events involving the hobbits and their pursuers. Tolkien included several other named inns in his writing, including the Green Dragon and the Ivy Bush, which can cause confusion, but those are not the Bree inn visited by Frodo’s group.