TH, 'Roast Mutton':
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At first they [Thorin's company] had passed through hobbit-lands, a wild respectable country inhabited by decent folk, with good roads, an inn or two, and now and then a dwarf or a farmer ambling by on business.
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Maybe these two inns became the Prancing Pony and the Forsaken Inn?
RS, 'A Long-expected Party', the Professor's jottings:
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They [Bilbo and his three Took nephews Odo, Frodo and Drogo] walk all night – East. Adventures: troll-like: witch-house on way to Rivendell.
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Or then again, maybe the
witch-house was perhaps the germ of what would become the Forsaken Inn.