The Forsaken Inn

[Nerwen]

Originally Posted by Pitchwife

If it was the name of a working inn, it would indicate a weird sense of humour on the landlord's part, and an even weirder sense of advertising.

But look at the context– we've also got the Green Dragon, the Ivy Bush, the Prancing Pony... these are surely meant to suggest English inn names. Now, some of those are pretty weird, like the Hit or Miss, or the Quiet Woman (depicted as carrying her own severed head). So, I imagine Tolkien might well have meant the Forsaken Inn to be the actual name of the place.