Wondering What Happened to Bill the Pony After ‘The Fellowship of the Ring’? We Have Answers!

Middle-earth is indeed filled with epic deeds and legendary heroes, but sometimes it's the smaller and seemingly insignificant ones that captivate us. In The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring, for example, there is a character so brave that fans consider him the unofficial tenth member of the Fellowship. We're not talking about any Hobbit, Elf, Dwarf, or Human, but about Bill the Pony. He is Sam's (Sean Astin) loyal companion who is released before the Fellowship enters Moria, and, despite his short screen time in the Peter Jackson trilogy, has become a fan favorite—being considered the unofficial tenth member of the Fellowship. While the movies never show his fate, Bill's story is one of the most touching in J.R.R. Tolkien's writings.