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[The Lady of Ithilien]

This is probably an off-the-wall question, but it came up incidentally while trying to imagine more details about Aragorn for a short story I'm trying to write involving him -- the "writer's help book" I'm using says to write out all sorts of details of a character before you write the synopsis and story, and when I got to "Job," well, it doesn't fit into my story in any way, but one wonders: exactly how was Aragorn supposed to pay his bill at The Prancing Pony when he visited there and other bills elsewhere before he became king?

Possibilities that occurred to me were:
-- the Rangers earned money for their service of protecting the Breeland;
-- they had a stash left over from their glory days;
-- Elrond gave them a stipend;
-- they had fewer compunctions and more practicality than Bilbo when it came to pinching troll hoards that came their way.

Any ideas? References in the works of JRR or Christopher Tolkien? Other?