Immune to non- player card effects. Gollum engages the first player.

Forced: After Gollum engages the first player during the refresh phase, he makes an immediate attack.

Forced: When Gollum is defeated, flip him to Sméagol and exhaust Sméagol.

Response: Cancel a shadow effect just triggered during combat.

'The hasty stroke goes oft astray,' said Aragorn. 'We must press our Enemy, and no longer wait on him for the next move.'
–The Return of the King

When Revealed: The player with the highest threat level attaches this card to one of his heroes. (Counts as a Condition attachment with the text: 'Attached hero does not ready during the refresh phase unless you pay 2 resources from that hero's pool.')

During the encounter phase, players cannot optionally engage Goblin Sniper if there are other enemies in the staging area.

Forced: If Goblin Sniper is in the staging area at the end of the combat phase, each player deals 1 point of damage to 1 character he controls.

Forced: While Gladden Fields is the active location, each player must raise his threat by an additional point during the refresh phase.

"On a time they took a boat and went down to the Gladden Fields, where there were great beds of iris and flowering reeds."
–Gandalf, The Fellowship of the Ring

Response: After you play Fili from your hand during the planning phase, seach your deck for Kili and put him into play under your control. Then shuffle your deck.

"Fili is the youngest and still has the best sight."
–Thorin, The Hobbit

Response: After you play Kili from your hand during the planning phase, seach your deck for Fili and put him into play under your control. Then shuffle your deck.

"Let us join the throng!"
–The Hobbit

Response: Cancel a shadow effect just triggered during combat.

"The hasty stroke goes oft astray," said Aragorn. "We must press our Enemy, and no longer wait upon him for the move."
–The Return of the King

Play during the Quest phase, before characters are commited to the Quest.

Action: Reveal 1 less card from the encounter deck this phase. (To a minimum of 1.)

When Revealed: The player with the highest threat level attached this card to one of his heroes. (Counts as a Condition attachment with the text: "Attached hero does not ready during the refresh phase unless you pay 2 resources from that hero's pool.")

During the encounter phase, players cannot optionally engage Goblin Sniper if there are other enemies in the staging area.

Forced: If Goblin Sniper is in the staging area at the end of the combat phase, each player deals 1 point of damage to 1 character he controls.

While Cracked Pillar is in the staging area, it gains: "The first player may declare an attack against Cracked Pillar during the combat phase as if it was an enemy engaged with him. Use Cracked Pillar's as its during this attack."

Travel: Remove 4 damage from Cracked Pillar to travel here.

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

Play during the Quest phase, before characters are committed to the Quest.

Action: Reveal 1 less card from the encounter deck this phase. (To a minimum of 1.)

"The wide world is all about you: you can fence yourselves in, but you cannot for ever fence it out."
–Gildor, The Fellowship of the Ring

While Rauros Falls is the active location, all characters must commit to the current quest during the quest phase.

Shadow: After this attack resolves, return attacking enemy to the staging area.

Response: After a Silvan character readies during the refresh phase, heal 1 damage from that character.

"The Wood–elves tracked him first, an easy task for them, for his trail was still fresh then." –Gandalf, The Fellowship of the Rings

While Fanuidhol is the active loction, heroes must spend 1 resource from their resource pool to count their during the quest phase.

Attach to a Noldor or Silvan character, or to Aragorn. Limit 1 per character.

Attached character gains ranged.

If attached character has the printed ranged keyword, it gets +1 during a ranged attack.

Secrecy 3.

Attach to a hero you control.

Attached hero collects 1 additional resource during the resource phase each round.

Response: After a Dwarf deals X damage to an enemy during combat, deal an additional X damage to that enemy. (Limit once per phase.)

"Beside them Gimli stood with his stout legs apart, wielding his dwarf–axe." –The Fellowship of the Ring

Action: Exhaust a character you control with ranged to immediately declare it as an attacker (and resolve its attack) against an enemy in the staging area. It gets +1 during this attack.

"We live now upon an island amid perils, and our hands are more often upon thr bowstring than upon the harp."
–Haldir, The Fellowship of the Ring

While Dark Pit is the active location it gains:

Refresh Action: Exhaust X characters (maximum 3) you control to discard the top X cards of your deck. If all discarded cards have a higher combined printed cost than the remaining hit points of Durin's Bane, discard Durin's Bane from play.

While Durin's Bane has no damage on it, progress tokens cannot be placed on Second Deep.

When Revealed: Attach Counter-Spell to Durin's Bane. Counts as a Condition attachment with the text:

Forced: When a player plays an event, discard the top card of the encounter deck. If that card is a treachery card, cancel the effects of the event, discard the event player's hand, and discard Counter-spell from play.

When Revealed: Durin's Bane gets +3 until the end of the round. The first player may remove 1 questing hero he controls from the quest to cancel the effect.

Shadow: If attacking enemy is Durin's Bane, it gets +3 .

Surge.

When Revealed: Heal 5 damage from Durin's Bane, if able. The first player may remove 1 questing hero he controls from the quest to cancel this effect.

The fire in it seemed to die, but the darkness grew.
–The Fellowship of the Ring

When Revealed: Durin's Bane makes an immediate attack against the first player (deal and resolve a shadow card).

Shadow: If attacking enemy is Durin's Bane, it gets +3 .

When Revealed: Attach Fiery Sword to Durin's Bane as a Weapon attachment with the text:

Attached enemy gets +3 .

In its right hand was a blade like a stabbing tongue of fire...
–The Fellowship of the Ring

When Revealed: Attach Many Thonged Whip to Durin's Bane as a Weapon attachment with the text:

Forced: When Durin's Bane attacks, the defending player must discard 1 card at random from his hand.

...in its left it held a whip of many thongs.
–The Fellowship of the Ring

Reveal 1 additional card from the encounter deck and add it to the staging area during the staging step each round.

If a hero is destroyed by an enemy attack, the players have lost the game.

While Heart of Fangorn is in the staging area, each player cannot refresh more than 5 characters during the refresh phase.

Attacking enemy makes an additional attack after this one.

While Plains of Enedwaith is the active location, players do not draw a card during the resource phase.

Shadow: Attacking enemy gets +1 (+3 instead if undefended).

While Hithaeglir Stream is the active location, players draw 2 cards during the resource phase instead of 1.

Shadow: Attacking enemy gets +1 Attack. Deal it an additional shadow card.

Attach to a Ranger hero.

Response: After attached hero commits to a quest, name enemy, location or treachery. If a card of the named type is revealed during this quest phase, exhaust Wingfoot to ready attached hero.

"Wingfoot I name you. This deed of the three friends should be sung in many a hall. Forty leagues and five you have measured ere the forth day is ended!"
–Éomer, The Two Towers

Galadriel cannot quest, attack, or defend. Allies you control do not exhaust to commit to the quest during the round they enter play.

Action: Exhaust Galadriel to choose a player. That player reduces his threat by 1 and draws 1 card. (Limit once per round.)

While you are engaged with any enemy, Halbarad does not exhaust to commit to a quest.

You may optionally engage 1 additional enemy during the encounter phase.

"Little do they know of our long labour for the safekeeping of their borders, and yet I grudge it not." –The Return of the King

When Revealed: Attach to an exhausted hero, or a ready hero is there are no exhausted heroes. Counts as a Condition attachment with the text:

Limit 1 per hero. Attached hero cannot ready and does not collect resources during the resource phase. Discard No Rest if the players travel to a safe location.

While you are engaged with at least 1 enemy, Amarthiúl gains the resource icon.

While you are engaged with at least 2 enemies, add 1 additional resource to Amarthiúl's resource pool when you collect resources during the resource phase.

"The heirs of Elendil do not forget all things past..."
–Aragorn, The Return of the King

When Revealed: The player with the highest threat must attach A Fell Dread to a hero he controls without A Fell Dread Attached. Counts as a Condition attachment with the text:

Attached hero's is reduced to 0. During the quest phase, attached hero must commit to the quest, if able.

While Calm Waters is the active location, look at 2 additional cards from the top of the encounter deck during each Sailing test.

Shadow: Attacking enemy gets +1 (+3 instead if attacking enemy is a Ship Enemy).

While Rough Waters is in the staging area, cancel the first symbol found during each Sailing test.

Shadow: If you are off course (, , or ), attacking enemy gets +2 Attack.

Immune to player card effects. Sentinel.

Raise your starting threat by 3.

Draw 1 additional card during the resource phase.

If the Dawn Star is destroyed, its controller is eliminated from the game.

Surge.

Eye of the Beast cannot attack.

While Eye of the Beast is engaged with a player, The Thing in the Depths attacks that player during the combat phase (deal and resolve a shadow card for this attack).

Guarded.

If Sea-ward Tower is free of encounters, add it to the staging area, controlled by the players.

While the players control Sea-ward Tower, look at 2 additional cards from the top of the encounter deck during each Sailing test.

Attach to Prince Imrahil.

Price Imrahil gains the Outlands trait.

While you control Outlands allies that belong to 4 different spheres, add 1 additional resource to Prince Imrahil's resource pool when you collect resources during the resource phase (if Prince Imrahil is a hero).