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Dates
No specific dates are recorded, but at the end of the Third Age, the Prancing Pony (the Inn that contained the Common Room) is described as being extremely old
Location
In the Prancing Pony, the Inn of Bree
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Meaning
'Common' is here used in the sense of 'shared', so the Common Room was a room that all the Inn's patrons could freely use
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Common RoomThe public room of the Prancing PonyThe inn of the Prancing Pony in Bree provided private parlours for its guests, but most of its patrons gathered in the inn's public Common Room. Here visitors of all kinds gathered together, travellers and Bree-landers alike. The room was furnished with tables and benches, and the innkeeper Barliman Butterbur served ale to his customers.1 The smoke-shrouded Common Room was lit by three lamps that hung from its beams, and by the light of a great log-burning fire. It had several windows looking out over Bree, across which red2 curtains could be drawn. The Common Room of the Prancing Pony became important to the story of the War of the Ring when it was visited by Frodo and his companions, and it was here that they first met the Ranger known locally as 'Strider'. In particular, the antics of Frodo (or 'Mr Underhill' as he claimed to be) singing, dancing and unexpectedly vanishing, caused a stir among the guests that was not easily forgotten. Indeed, even after the dangers of the War, which had seen the Common Room become much quieter than it had formerly been, there were those who remembered Mr Underhill and his performance after more than a year had passed. Notes
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