[HairOfTheDog]

What do they need money for? - I didn't see money change hands once in the story... Even at the Inn at the Prancing Pony...

[JenB]

In the movie, I don't remember seeing money. The book is quite full of it - well, there is money, anyway. Remember Butterburr paid for the ponies when the Nazgul scared them off? And of course Bilbo with his "hill all full of gold - and jools, they say".

[Overtaxed]

I didn't see money change hands once in the story... Even at the Inn at the Prancing Pony...

What about the part where Frodo felt he had fallen in with a rogue and worried that he couldn't spare any of his money and all of it would hardly satisfy? And Butterbur paid 12 silver pennies for Bill and gave Merry 18 more for the loss of his ponies.