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Forsaken Inn

The last inn on the road into Eriador

"I don't know if the Road has ever been measured in miles beyond the Forsaken Inn, a day's journey east of Bree"
Words of Strider
The Fellowship of the Ring I 9
A Knife in the Dark

An inn that stood to the east of Bree, on the East-West Road that ran on through the wilds of Eriador and into the distant Misty Mountains. Almost nothing is known about the inn, but it must surely have had very few customers indeed on the bleak and dangerous road where it stood.

It is tempting to think that Bilbo and his companions stayed at the Forsaken Inn on their journey to Rivendell. They must surely have passed it on the way, and though there is no definite mention of it in The Hobbit, we are told there about leaving 'hobbit-lands' with 'an inn or two' that came to an end on the edges of the Lone-lands (The Hobbit 2, Roast Mutton).


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