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Dates
Uncertain1
Location
On the Great Road, eastward of Bree
Settlements
Bree lay a day's journey to the west
Meaning
'Forsaken' implies that the inn had been abandoned, but see note 1
Other names
Apparently referred to as the 'Last Inn' in proposed revisions to The Hobbit (see text)
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Forsaken InnThe last inn on the road into Eriador![]() The approximate location of the Forsaken Inn2
The approximate location of the Forsaken Inn2
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). In 1960, Tolkien set about rewriting The Hobbit to bring it more closely into line with The Lord of the Rings. Few of these revisions were ultimately published, but they do cast some interesting light on the Forsaken Inn. In that version of the story, Thorin and Company expect to find an inn they call the 'Last Inn' on the road east of Bree. They travel for a day mounted on their ponies (placing the inn about twenty miles along the road) but when they arrive they find the place deserted. This is evidently the inn later known as the Forsaken Inn, and by the dating of this unpublished story element it would have been abandoned not long before III 2941, the year of the Quest of Erebor. Notes
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