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Staff of The Prancing Pony Inn

This is the inn/pub in the town of Bree owned by Barliman Butterbur and visited by the hobbits during their journey from the Shire to Rivendell, the place where they first met a mysterious Ranger named Strider -- Aragorn in disguise.  One notable thing about Butterbur's inn is the lack of female servants -- perhaps simply a matter of none being mentioned, since we saw very few of the people who might have worked there.  But since it was common for men to act as servers in inns and pubs, I decided to let The Pony have male "barmaids" to contrast with the women of the more expensive pub.  Unfortunately, I wasn't able to make  "Nob and Bob," the two employees mentioned in the book, one of them was a hobbit, and kids don't work in the Downtown (or, probably, with the actions needed for an adult NPC).  There is only one version of Butterbur, of course, since there was only one of him in the book!  He's also the first Fat mesh I've done, since that was one of his... noted traits.  He is not based on the actor from the movies, and since he was designed to be used with Paladin's NPC Replacer, he can also be used as a regular playable Sim in the game.