Attach to a hero.
Attached hero gains the Gondor trait.
Action: Exhaust Steward of Gondor to add 2 resources to attached hero's resource pool.
"It was commanded yesterday."
–Denethor, The Return of the King
Attach to a hero. Restricted.
Attached hero gains +2 
If attached hero is Aragorn, he also gains a 
resource icon.
"You needn't," said Bilbo. "As a matter of fact it was all mine. Except that Aragorn insisted on my putting in a green stone. He seemed to think it important. I don't know why."
–The Fellowship of the Ring
Attach to a hero. Restricted.
Attached hero gets +1 
when attacking an Orc.
Response: After attached hero attacks and destroys an enemy, place 1 progress token on the current quest.
It was rather splendid to be wearing a blade made in Gondolin for the goblin–wars of which so many songs had sung...
–The Hobbit
Attach to a hero. Restricted.
Attached hero gets +4 Hit Points.
"Go to the armouries of the Citadel, and get you there the livery and gear of the Tower."
–Denethor, The Return of the King
Attach to a hero. Restricted.
Attached hero gains +1 (+2 instead if attached hero is a Dwarf.)
"But keep your bow ready to hand, and I will keep my axe loose in my belt."
–Gimli, The Two Towers
Attach to a hero. Restricted.
Response: After a character is destroyed, add 1 resource to attached hero's pool.
'Slow should you be to wind that horn again, Boromir,' said Elrond, 'until you stand once more on the borders of your land, and dire need is on you.'
–The Fellowship of the Ring
Attach to a hero.
Attached hero gains +1 .
"You are indeed high in the favor of the Lady!"
–Unnamed Elf of LĂłrien,
The Fellowship of the Ring
Attach to a location.
Attached location gets -1 
.
"Power to defy our Enemy is not in him, unless shuch power is in the earth itself."
–Gandalf, The Fellowship of the Ring
Attach to a hero.
Action: Exhaust Unexpected Courage to ready attached hero.
"Here am I, naughty little fly;
you are fat and lazy.
You cannot trap me, though you try,
in your cobwebs crazy."
–Bilbo Baggins, The Hobbit
Attach to an enemy engaged with a player.
Attached enemy cannot attack.
"We shall have it like a coney in a trap. Then we shall learn what kind of thing it is."
–Unidentified Man of Gondor,
The Two Towers
Attach to a hero.
Action: Discard a card from your hand to give attached hero +1 
or +1 until the end of the phase. Limit 3 times per phase.
'Speak no evil of the lady Galadriel!' said Aragorn sternly. 'There is in her and in this land no evil, unless a man bring it hither himself. Then let him beware.'
–The Fellowship of the Ring
Attach to a hero. Attached hero gets -1
Response: Exhaust Dark Knowledge to look at 1 shadow card that was just dealt to an enemy attacking you.
'Go on then!' said Frodo. 'What do you know?'
'Too much; too many dark things,' said Strider grimly.
–The Fellowship of the Ring
Attach to a character.
Action: Exhaust Self Preservation to heal 2 points of damage from attached character.
...how much more of this would they have to endure, or could they endure?
–The Two Towers
Attach to a hero. Restricted.
Attached hero gains +2
If attached hero is Aragorn, he also gains a resource icon.
Attach to a hero.
Attached hero gains the Gondor trait.
Action: Exhaust Steward of Gondor to add 2 resources to attached hero's resource pool.
Attach to a Nolder or Silvan hero.
Attached hero does not exhaust to commit to a quest.
"...those who have dwelt in the Blessed Ralm live at once in both worlds, and against both the Seen and Unseen they have great power."
–Gandalf, The Fellowship of the Ring
Attach to a hero.
Action: Exhaust Unexpected Courage to ready attached hero.
"You cannot trap me, though you try,
in your cobwebs crazy."
–Bilbo Baggins, The Hobbit
Attach to a location.
Response: After attached location is explored, the first player draws 3 cards.
...anything that Hobbits had no immediate use for, but were unwilling to throw away, they called mathom.
The Fellowship of the Ring
Attach to a hero.
Action: Discard Cram to ready attached hero.
If you want to know what cram is, I can only say that I don't know the recipe; but it is biscuitish, keeps good indefinitely, is supposed to be sustaining, and is certainly not entertaining...
–The Hobbit
Attach to a hero. Restricted.
Response: After a character is destroyed, add 1 resource to attached hero's pool.
"Slow should you be to wind that horn again, Boromir," said Elrond, "until you stand once more on the border of your land, and dire need is on you."
–The Fellowship of the Ring
Attach to the active location. Attached location gets +1 quest point.
Response: After attached location leaves play as an explored location, the first player puts 1 ally into play from his hand.
Attach to a Dwarf character. Restricted.
Attached hero gains +1
Response: After attached character attacks, deal 1 damage to the defending character.
Attach to a hero. Restricted.
Attached hero gets +1 when attacking an Orc.
Response: After attached hero attacks and destroys an enemy, place 1 progress token on the current quest.
Play only if you control a Noldor or Silvan hero.
Attach to a hero.
Action: Discard Lembas to ready attached hero and heal 3 damage from it.
Attach to a quest card in play. Limit 1 per quest.
Response: After attached quest is defeated, each player either draws 2 cards or heals up to 5 damage from among characters he controls.
"...through the ages of the world we have fought the long defeat."
–Galadriel, The Fellowship of the Ring
Attach to a hero.
Attached hero gains the Gondor trait.
Action: Exhaust Steward of Gondor to add 2 resources to attached hero's resource pool.
"It was commanded yesterday."
–Denethor, The Return of the King
Attach to a hero. Restricted.
Attached hero gains +2
If attached hero is Aragorn, he also gains a resource icon.
"You needn't," said Bilbo. "As a matter of fact it was all mine. Except that Aragorn insisted on my putting in a green stone. He seemed to think it important. I don't know why."
–The Fellowship of the Ring
Attach to a hero. Restricted.
Attached hero gets +1 when attacking an Orc.
Response: After attached hero attacks and destroys an enemy, place 1 progress token on the current quest.
It was rather splendid to be wearing a blade made in Gondolin for the goblin–wars of which so many songs had sung...
–The Hobbit
Attach to a hero. Restricted.
Attached hero gets +4 Hit Points.
"Go to the armouries of the Citadel, and get you there the livery and gear of the Tower."
–Denethor, The Return of the King
Attach to a hero. Restricted.
Attached hero gains +1 (+2 instead if attached hero is a Dwarf.)
"But keep your bow ready to hand, and I will keep my axe loose in my belt."
–Gimli, The Two Towers
Attach to a hero. Restricted.
Response: After a character is destroyed, add 1 resource to attached hero's pool.
'Slow should you be to wind that horn again, Boromir,' said Elrond, 'until you stand once more on the borders of your land, and dire need is on you.'
–The Fellowship of the Ring
Attach to a hero.
Attached hero gains +1 .
"You are indeed high in the favor of the Lady!"
–Unnamed Elf of LĂłrien,
The Fellowship of the Ring
Attach to a location.
Attached location gets -1 .
"Power to defy our Enemy is not in him, unless shuch power is in the earth itself."
–Gandalf, The Fellowship of the Ring
Attach to a hero.
Action: Exhaust Unexpected Courage to ready attached hero.
"Here am I, naughty little fly;
you are fat and lazy.
You cannot trap me, though you try,
in your cobwebs crazy."
–Bilbo Baggins, The Hobbit
Attach to an enemy engaged with a player.
Attached enemy cannot attack.
"We shall have it like a coney in a trap. Then we shall learn what kind of thing it is."
–Unidentified Man of Gondor,
The Two Towers
Attach to a hero.
Action: Discard a card from your hand to give attached hero +1 or +1 until the end of the phase. Limit 3 times per phase.
'Speak no evil of the lady Galadriel!' said Aragorn sternly. 'There is in her and in this land no evil, unless a man bring it hither himself. Then let him beware.'
–The Fellowship of the Ring
Attach to a hero. Attached hero gets -1
Response: Exhaust Dark Knowledge to look at 1 shadow card that was just dealt to an enemy attacking you.
'Go on then!' said Frodo. 'What do you know?'
'Too much; too many dark things,' said Strider grimly.
–The Fellowship of the Ring
Attach to a character.
Action: Exhaust Self Preservation to heal 2 points of damage from attached character.
...how much more of this would they have to endure, or could they endure?
–The Two Towers
Permanent. Limit 1 per hero.
Response: After attached hero is declared as an attacker, exhaust Valor to heal 1 damage from attached hero and deal 1 damage to the defening enemy.
Attached hero collects 1 additional resource during each resource phase.
“Yet it is not our part to master all the tides of the world, but to do what is in us for the succour of those years wherein we are set...”
–Gandalf, The Return of the King
Attach to a hero.
Attached hero gains +1
Action: Pay 1 resource from attached hero's pool to attach DĂșnedain Mark to another hero.
Attach to a hero.
Attached hero gains a 
resource icon.
From the ashes a fire shall be woken,
A light from the shadows shall spring:
Renewed shall be blade that was broken,
The crownless again shall be king.
–The Fellowship of the Ring
Attach to a hero.
Attached hero gains +1
Action: Pay 1 resource from attached hero's pool to attach DĂșnedain Warning to another hero.
Attach to an ally.
Action: Discard Born Aloft from play to return attached ally to its owner's hand.
"Very well," said Gandalf. "Take us where and as far as you will!" –The Hobbit
Attach to a 
character. Restricted.
Response: Exhaust A Burning Brand to cancel a shadow effect just triggered during an attack that attached character is defending.
"Keep close to the fire, with your faces outward!" cried Strider. "Keep some of th elonger sticks ready in your hands."
–The Fellowship of the Ring
Attach to a hero.
Attached hero gains a resource icon.
It sit beside the fire and think
of all that I have seen,
of meadow–flowers and butterflies
in summers that have been
–The Fellowship of the Ring
Attach to a hero.
Attached hero gains +1
Action: Pay 1 resource from attached hero's pool to attach DĂșnedain Quest to another hero.
Attach to a location.
Response: After attached location is explored, the first player draws 3 cards.
The Mathom-house it was called; for anything that Hobbits had no immediate use for, but were unwilling to throw away, they called a mathom. Their dwellings were apt to become rather crowded with mathoms... –The Fellowship of the Ring
Attach to a hero.
Attached hero gains a resource icon.
The Road goes ever on and on
Down from the door where it began.
Now far ahead the road has gone,
And I must follow, if I can.
–The Fellowship of the Ring