Comb and Wattle Sundays

This is a role-playing event inspired by the merriment of the Prancing Pony as in the chapter At the Sign of the Prancing Pony in The Fellowship of the Ring, but of course on a smaller scale, filled with singing, drinking, and smoking Bree-landers (including Hobbits!) However, Combe is a simple village with plain folk; it is advised to roll a Bree-lander of a common sort to participate be he Big or Little, with no Lords or sell-swords or magic either; Combe, first and foremost is a small town, with small town worries, and Watchers to guard them: take into account the patrolling Watcher NPCs! A few quotes from the chapters At the Sign of the Prancing Pony and A Knife in the Dark in The Fellowship of the Ring to guide the event are:

Quotes:

Bree-landers

"The Men of Bree were brown-haired, broad, and rather short, cheerful and independent: they belonged to nobody but themselves..."

"The Men of Bree seemed to all have rather botanical (and to the Shire-folk rather odd) names, like Rushlight, Goatleaf, Heathertoes, Appledore, and Ferny (not to mention Butterbur). Some of the Hobbits had similar names. The Mugworts, for instance, seemed numerous. But most of them had natural names, such as Banks, Brockhouse, Longholes, Sandheaver, and Tunnelly, many of which were used in the Shire. There were several Underhills from Staddle..."

"...many settlements of hobbits in the Bree-land and they claimed to be the oldest settlement of Hobbits in the world, one that was founded long before even the Brandywine was crossed and the Shire colonised. They lived mostly in Staddle... The Big Folk and the Little Folk (as they called one another) were on friendly terms, minding their own affairs in their own ways, but rightly regarding themselves as necessary parts of the Bree-folk."

"The Bree-folk, Big and Little did not themselves travel much; and the affairs of the four villages were their chief concern."

"...men who had come up the Greenway were on the move, looking for lands where they could find some peace. The Bree-folk were sympathetic, but plainly not very ready to let a large number of strangers into their little land... 'If room isn't found for them, they'll find it for themselves. They've a right to live, same as other folk.' [a traveler] said loudly. The local inhabitants did not look pleased at this prospect."

The Prancing Pony Inn

"...someone began singing a merry song inside, and many cheerful voices joined loudly in the chorus."

"... [Barliman] was bustling out of one door and in through another, carrying a tray laden with full mugs."

"'We don't get Outsiders—travelers from the Shire, I should say, begging your pardon—...'"

"As soon as the Shire-hobbits entered, there was a chorus of welcome from the Bree-landers."

Bree-land

"...the memory of the old Kings had faded into the grass."

"But in the Bree-land, at any rate, the hobbits were decent and prosperous, and no more rustic than most of their distant relatives Inside [the Shire]."

"It was not yet forgotten that there had been a time when there was much coming and going between the Shire and Bree."

"The village of Bree had some hundred stone houses of the Big Folk..."

"The gates were closed at nightfall; but just inside them were small lodges for the gatekeepers."

"Strange as News from Bree was still a saying in the Eastfarthing, descending from those days, when the news from North, South, and East could be heard in the inn, and when the Shire-hobbits used to go more often to hear it."

"Bill Ferny's price was twelve silver pennies; and that was indeed at least three times the pony's value in these parts. It proved to be a bony, underfed, and dispirited animal; but it did not look like dying just yet. Mr Butterbur paid for it himself, and offered Merry another eighteen pence as some compensation for the lost animals. He was an honest man, and well-off as things were reckoned in Bree; but thirty silver pennies was a sore blow for him, and being cheated by Bill Ferny made it harder to bear."

Sayings:

"Strange as News from Bree" — A phrase referring to the strange travelers that would pass through Bree

"Outsiders" — A derisive term for folk outside of the four villages

"One thing drives out another!" — A phrase of forgetfulness

"Southrons"—​ Southerners, usually referring to the Hill-men of Dunland

Lastly, some resources of my own making:

Notable Persons of the Valley of Combe

Notable Buildings of the Valley of Combe

A Treatise on the Situation, Manners, and Inhabitants of Bree-land