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Action: Discard 1 card from your hand to give รowyn +1 until the end of the phase. This effect may be triggered by each player once each round.
Slender and tall she was in her white robe girt with silver; but strong she seemed and stern as steel, a daughter of kings.
–The Two Towers
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Response: Exhaust Eleanor to cancel the "when revealed" effects of a treachery card just revealed by the encounter deck. Then, discard that card, and replace it with the next card from the encounter deck.
"Gondor wanes, you say. But Gondor stands, and even the end of its strength is very strong."
–Boromir, The Fellowship of the Ring
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Dรบnhere can target enemies in the staging area when he attacks alone. When doing so, he gets +1 .
Captains rode to meet him at the ford, bearing messages from Gandalf. Dรบnhere, chieftain of the folk of Harrowdale, was at their head.
–The Return of the King
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Action: Reduce your threat by 3 to give control of Wandering Took to another player. Raise that player's threat by 3. (Limit once per round.)
...but certainly there was something not entirely hobbit-like about them, and once in a while members of the Took-clan would go and have adventures. –The Hobbit
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Response: After Lรณrien Guide commits to a quest, place 1 progress token on the active location.
"Indeed deep in the wood they dwell..." –Aragorn, The Fellowship of the Ring
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Response: After Northern Tracker commits to a quest, place 1 progress token on each location in the staging area.
"What roads would any dare to tread, what safety would there be in quiet lands, or in the homes of simple men at night, if the Dรบnedain were asleep, or were all gone into the grave?"
–Aragorn, The Fellowship of the Ring
Action: Reduce one player's threat by 6, or reduce each player's threat by 2.
"Welcome to Caras Galadhan!" he said. "Here is the city of the Galadhrim where dwell the Lord Celeborn and Galadriel the Lady of Lรณrien."
–The Fellowship of the Ring
Response: After you travel to a location, exhaust a 
character to place 2 progress tokens on that location.
Then Aragorn lead the way, and such was the strength of his will in that hour that all the Dรบnedain and their horses followed him.
–The Return of the King
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
Action: Choose a player. Shuffle that player's discard pile back into his deck. Remove Will of the West from the game.
"If Gondor has such men still in these days of fading, great must have been its glory in the days of its rising."
–Legolas, The Return of the King
Response: Cancel the “when revealed” effects of a card that was just revealed from the encounter deck.
"There is naught that you can do, other than to resist, with hope or without it"
–Elrond, The Fellowship of the Ring
Action: Choose an ally with a printed cost of X in any player's discard pile. Put that ally into play under your control. (The chosen ally can belong to any sphere of influence.)
"...we will fight on." –Boromir, The Fellowship of the Ring
Action: Choose an enemy engaged with a player. Return that enemy to the staging area.
The light of the torches and the fire flickered about them...
–The Hobbit
Action: Return 1 card from your discard pile to your hand.
The dwarves no more shall suffer wrong,
The dwarves of yore made mighty spells,
While hammers fell like ringing bells
In places deep, where dark things sleep,
In hollow halls beneath the fells.
–The Hobbit
Action: Choose a hero in any player's discard pile. Put that card into play, under its owner's control.
'Yes, fortune or fate have helped you,' said Gandalf, 'not to mention courage.'
–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 Lรณrien,
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
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1
Response: After you play a Dwarf character from your hand, reduce your threat by 1.
"Nori, at your service." –Nori, The Hobbit
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1
Response: After Arwen Undรณmiel exhausts, choose a character. That character gains sentinel and gets +1 until the end of the round.
...in whom it was said that the likeness of Lรบthien had come on earth again...for she was the Evenstar of her people.
–The Fellowship of the Ring
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Quest Action: Spend 1 resource to put Bofur into play from your hand, exhausted and commited to a quest. If you quest successfully this phase and Bofur is still in play, return him to your hand.
"Get up lazy–bones..."
–The Hobbit
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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
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Response: After Woodland Courier enters play, place 1 progress on a location (2 progress instead if that location has the Forest trait.
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Action: Choose another player. That player gains control of Blue Mountain Trader. Then, the player moves 1 resource from the resource pool of a hero he controls to the resource pool of a hero you control, or Blue Mountain Trader is discarded. (Limit once per round.)
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
Response: Cancel the 'when revealed' effects of a card that was just revealed from the encounter deck.
"There is naught that you can do, other than resist, with hope or without it."
–Elrond, The Fellowship of the Ring
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
Response: After a sentinel character is declared as a defender, it gets +2 for this attack. If this attack deals no damage, ready the defending character.
...but along in the porch upon the topmost step stood Beregond...
–The Return of the King
Action: Return a card from your discard pile to your hand.
The dwarves of yore made might spells,
While hammers fell like rining bells
In places deep, where dark things sleep...
–The Hobbit
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10
Action: Discard 1 card from your hand to give รowyn +1 until the end of the phase. This effect may be triggered by each player once each round.
Slender and tall she was in her white robe girt with silver; but strong she seemed and stern as steel, a daughter of kings.
–The Two Towers
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4
Response: Exhaust Eleanor to cancel the "when revealed" effects of a treachery card just revealed by the encounter deck. Then, discard that card, and replace it with the next card from the encounter deck.
"Gondor wanes, you say. But Gondor stands, and even the end of its strength is very strong."
–Boromir, The Fellowship of the Ring
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1
4
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4
Dรบnhere can target enemies in the staging area when he attacks alone. When doing so, he gets +1 .
Captains rode to meet him at the ford, bearing messages from Gandalf. Dรบnhere, chieftain of the folk of Harrowdale, was at their head.
–The Return of the King
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Action: Reduce your threat by 3 to give control of Wandering Took to another player. Raise that player's threat by 3. (Limit once per round.)
...but certainly there was something not entirely hobbit-like about them, and once in a while members of the Took-clan would go and have adventures. –The Hobbit
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Response: After Lรณrien Guide commits to a quest, place 1 progress token on the active location.
"Indeed deep in the wood they dwell..." –Aragorn, The Fellowship of the Ring
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10
Response: After Northern Tracker commits to a quest, place 1 progress token on each location in the staging area.
"What roads would any dare to tread, what safety would there be in quiet lands, or in the homes of simple men at night, if the Dรบnedain were asleep, or were all gone into the grave?"
–Aragorn, The Fellowship of the Ring
Action: Reduce one player's threat by 6, or reduce each player's threat by 2.
"Welcome to Caras Galadhan!" he said. "Here is the city of the Galadhrim where dwell the Lord Celeborn and Galadriel the Lady of Lรณrien."
–The Fellowship of the Ring
Response: After you travel to a location, exhaust a character to place 2 progress tokens on that location.
Then Aragorn lead the way, and such was the strength of his will in that hour that all the Dรบnedain and their horses followed him.
–The Return of the King
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
Action: Choose a player. Shuffle that player's discard pile back into his deck. Remove Will of the West from the game.
"If Gondor has such men still in these days of fading, great must have been its glory in the days of its rising."
–Legolas, The Return of the King
Response: Cancel the “when revealed” effects of a card that was just revealed from the encounter deck.
"There is naught that you can do, other than to resist, with hope or without it"
–Elrond, The Fellowship of the Ring
Action: Choose an ally with a printed cost of X in any player's discard pile. Put that ally into play under your control. (The chosen ally can belong to any sphere of influence.)
"...we will fight on." –Boromir, The Fellowship of the Ring
Action: Choose an enemy engaged with a player. Return that enemy to the staging area.
The light of the torches and the fire flickered about them...
–The Hobbit
Action: Return 1 card from your discard pile to your hand.
The dwarves no more shall suffer wrong,
The dwarves of yore made mighty spells,
While hammers fell like ringing bells
In places deep, where dark things sleep,
In hollow halls beneath the fells.
–The Hobbit
Action: Choose a hero in any player's discard pile. Put that card into play, under its owner's control.
'Yes, fortune or fate have helped you,' said Gandalf, 'not to mention courage.'
–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 Lรณrien,
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
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1
1
1โ
6
Action: Discard Westfold Horse-Breaker to choose and ready a hero.
"Your own valour has done more, and the stout legs of the Westfold–men marching through the night." –Gandalf, The Two Towers
Action: Search the top 10 cards of your deck for any 1 Rohan card and add it to your hand. Then, shuffle the other cards back into your deck.
"More speed we cannot make, if the strength of Rohan is to be gathered." –รomer, The Return of the King
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Response: After Frodo Baggins is damaged, cancel the damage and instead raise your threat by the amount of damage he would have been dealt. (Limit once per phase.)
Frodo began to feel restless, and the old paths seemed too well–trodden. he looked at maps and wondered what lay beyond their edges... –The Fellowship of the Ring
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Response: After รomund leaves play, ready all Rohan characters in play.
"You I have not seen before, for you are young, but I have spoken with Eomund your father..." –Aragorn, The Two Towers
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2โ
8
While committed to a quest, Escort from Edoras gets +2
Forced: After resolving a quest to which Escort from Edoras was committed, discard Escort from Edoras from play.
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
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7
Action: Exhaust and discard The Riddermarkโs Finest to place 2 progress tokens on any location.
"And there are no horses like the ones that are bred in that great vale between the Misty Mountains and the White."
–Gandalf, The Fellowship of the Ring
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While Elfhelm is ready, he gains:
Response: After your threat is raised as the result of questing unsuccessfully, or by an encounter or quest card effect, reduce your threat by 1.
"But my lord sends word that we must set ourselves in readiness: orders may come for a sudden move." –The Return of the King
Action: Until the end of the phase, Rohan characters do not exhaust to commit to quests.
"But we must ride more warily; for war is abroad, and the Rohirrim, the Horse–lords, do not sleep, even if it seems so from afar." –Gandalf, The Two Towers
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10
Response: After you play West Road Traveller from your hand, switch the active location with any other location in the staging area.
The dark world was rushing by, and the wind sang loudly in his ears.
–The Return of the King
Action: Until the end of the phase, all Rohan characters get +2
With astonishing speed and skill they checked their steeds, wheeled, and came charging round. –The Two Towers
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6โ
Response: After you play a Dwarf character from your hand, reduce your threat by 1.
"Nori, at your service." –Nori, The Hobbit
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Response: After you play Kili from your hand during the planning phase, search your deck for Fili and put him into play under your control. Then, shuffle your deck.
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Response: When you play Erebor Guard from your hand, discard the top 2 cards of your deck to reduce its cost by 2.
...the fortress of the dwarves could not be taken by surprise. –The Hobbit
Attach to a Dwarf character. Limit 1 per character.
Response: After a card is discarded from your deck, exhaust Dwarf Pipe to place that card on the bottom of your deck.
He held a small pipe with a wide flattened bowl...
–The Two Towers
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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.)
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0
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2โ
Forced: After a character leaves play, discard Silvan Refugee from play.
"The Elves have their own labours and their own sorrows..."
–Gildor, The Fellowship of the Ring
Response: Cancel the “when revealed” effects of a card that was just revealed from the encounter deck.
"There is naught that you can do, other than to resist, with hope or without it"
–Elrond, The Fellowship of the Ring
Action: If you control a unique Noldor character, give another character +1 until the end of the phase and lower your threat by 3.
"Believe rather that it is so ordered that we, who sit here, and none others, must now find counsel for the peril of the world."
–Elrond, The Fellowship of the Ring
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If รomer is in play, Lothรญriel gains the Rohan trait.
Response: After Lothรญriel commits to a quest, choose an ally in your hand. If that ally shares a Trait with her, put that ally into play exhausted and committed to the quest. At the end of the phase, if that ally is still in play, shuffle it into your deck.
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Response: After รomund leaves play, ready all Rohan characters in play.
"You I have not seen before, for you are young, but I have spoken with Eomund your father..." –Aragorn, The Two Towers
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0
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2โ
While committed to a quest, Escort from Edoras gets +2
Forced: After resolving a quest to which Escort from Edoras was committed, discard Escort from Edoras from play.
0
0
1
2โ
Response: After you play West Road Traveller from your hand, switch the active location with any other location in the staging area.
The dark world was rushing by, and the wind sang loudly in his ears.
–The Return of the King
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1
1
1โ
Action: Discard Westfold Horse-Breaker to choose and ready a hero.
"Your own valour has done more, and the stout legs of the Westfold–men marching through the night." –Gandalf, The Two Towers
0
0
1
1โ
Response: After Westfold Horse-breeder enters play, search the top 10 cards of your deck for a Mount attachment and add it to your hand. Shuffle your deck.
"They love their horses next to their kin." –Boromir, The Fellowship of the Ring
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 Rohan hero or Merry. Restricted.
Response: When a character leaves play, if that character shares at least one trait with the attached hero, exhaust Horn of the Mark to draw 1 card.
Then ยรowyn gave to Merry an ancient horn, small but cunningly wrought all of fair silver with a baldric of green.
–The Return of the King
Response: Cancel the “when revealed” effects of a card that was just revealed from the encounter deck.
"There is naught that you can do, other than to resist, with hope or without it"
–Elrond, The Fellowship of the Ring
Action: Until the end of the phase, all Rohan characters get +2
With astonishing speed and skill they checked their steeds, wheeled, and came charging round. –The Two Towers
While paying for The Muster of Rohan, each Rohan hero you control is considered to have a icon.
Planning Action: Search the top 10 cards of your deck for up to 4 Rohan allies and put them into play. Shuffle your deck. If any of those allies are still in play at the end of the round, discard them.
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Response: After Fastred defends an enemy attack, return that enemy to the staging area to reduce your threat by 2. (Limit once per phase.)
"King's man! King's man!" his heart cried within him.
–The Return of the King
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0
2
3โ
Action: Exhaust and discard The Riddermarkโs Finest to place 2 progress tokens on any location.
"And there are no horses like the ones that are bred in that great vale between the Misty Mountains and the White."
–Gandalf, The Fellowship of the Ring
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2
4
6โ
1
Response: After Dwalin attacks and destroys an Orc enemy, lower your threat by 2.
It was a dwarf with a blue beard tucked into a golden belt, and very bright eyes under his dark-green hood.
–The Hobbit
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1
1
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9
Action: Exhaust Zigil Miner and name a number to discard the top 2 cards of your deck. If at least one of those cards has cost equal to the named number, choose a hero you control. For each card that matches the named number, add 1 resource to that hero's resource pool.
Action: Each Dwarf character gets +1 until the end of the phase. (+2 instead if the active location is an Underground or Dark location.)
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8
Quest Action: Spend 1 resource to put Bofur into play from your hand, exhausted and committed to a quest. If you quest successfully this phase and Bofur is still in play, return him to your hand.
"Get up lazy-bones..." –The Hobbit
Response: After another player plays an attachment on a hero you control, you may (choose 1):
- ready 1 of that player's heroes
- have that player draw 1 card
- lower that player's threat by 2.
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1
2
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3
Action: Spend 1 resource to give control of Rider of the Mark to another player. (Limit once per round.)
Response: After Rider of the Mark changes control, discard a shadow card dealt to an enemy you are engaged with.
Attach to a hero.
Response: After Song of Eรคrendil enters play, draw 1 card.
Response: After another player raises his threat, raise your threat by 1 to reduce that player's threat by 1.
0
1
2
4โ
10
Response: After Arwen Undรณmiel exhausts, choose a character. That character gains sentinel and gets +1 until the end of the round.
...in whom it was said that the likeness of Lรบthien had come on earth again...for she was the Evenstar of her people.
–The Fellowship of the Ring
Action: If you control a unique Noldor character, give another character +1 until the end of the phase and lower your threat by 3.
"Believe rather that it is so ordered that we, who sit here, and none others, must now find counsel for the peril of the world."
–Elrond, The Fellowship of the Ring
Attach a Dwarf character.
Response: After you travel to a Mountain or Underground location, ready attached character and reduce your threat by 1
'This is more to my liking,' said the dwarf, stomping on the stones. 'Ever my heart rises as we draw near the mountains.'
–The Two Towers
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Forced: After Glorfindel exhausts to commit to a quest, raise your threat by 1.
Glorfindel was tall and straight; his hair was of shining gold, his face fair and young and fearless and full of joy; his eyes were bright and keen, and has voice like music; on his brow sat wisdom, and in his hand was strength.
–The Fellowship of the Ring
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1
1
1โ
10
Action: Exhaust Imladris Stargazer to choose a player. That player looks at the top 5 cards of his deck and then returns them to the top of his deck in any order.
Attach to a Noldor or Silvan hero.
Attached hero does not exhaust to commit to a quest.
"... those who have dwelt in the Blessed Realm live at once in both worlds, and against both the Seen and Unseen they have great power."
–Gandalf, The Fellowship of the Ring
Response: After a non-unique enemy attacks you, put that enemy on the bottom of the encounter deck. If your threat is lower than that enemy's engagement cost, set your threat equal to the engagement cost of that enemy.
Attach to a hero.
Action: Discard Miruvor to (choose two):
- ready attached hero
- add 1 resource to attached hero's resource pool
- attached hero gets +1 until the end of the round
- put Miruvor on the top of your deck.
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2
2
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2
Action: Discard Damrod from play to lower your threat by 1 for each enemy in the staging area.
Action: All characters get +2 and do not exhaust to defend until the end of the round.
"The beacons of Gondor are alight, calling for aid." –Gandalf, The Return of the King
Response: After a location worth no victory points leaves play as an explored location, return it to the top of the encounter deck.
Attach to a Gondor or Dรบnedain hero.
Action: Spend 1 resource from attached hero's resource pool to give attached hero +1 for each resource in its resource pool until the end of the phase. (Limit once per phase.)
"Believe not that in the land of Gondor the blood of Numenor is spent, nor all its pride and dignity forgotten." –Boromir, The Fellowship of the Ring
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1
1
2โ
10
Each Outlands character you control gets +1 .
We heard of the horns in the hills ringing,
the swords shining in the South–kingdom.
–The Return of the King
0
0
1
2โ
6
Forced: After a character leaves play, discard Silvan Refugee from play.
"The Elves have their own labours and their own sorrows..."
–Gildor, The Fellowship of the Ring
Play only if each hero you control has the printed resource icon.
Action: Until the end of the phase, characters use their instead of
"Courage will now be your best defense against the storm that is at hand..." –Gandalf, The Return of the King
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2
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0
1
1
1โ
2
Response: After an encounter card with surge is revealed, discard Minas Tirith Lampwright to name enemy, location, or treachery. If the next encounter card revealed is the named type, discard it without resolving its effects.
Response: After a Hobbit hero you control exhausts to defend an attack, choose another enemy engaged with you and reveal the attacking enemy's shadow card. If that shadow card has no shadow effect, resolve this enemy's attack against the chosen enemy. If that shadow card has a shadow effect, resolve this attack as normal.
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5
Pelargir Shipwright gets +1 for each hero you control with a printed hero resource icon.
"It is forty leagues and two from Pelargir to the landings at the Harlond..."
–Aragorn, The Return of the King
Attach to a hero.
Reduce the cost to play Map of Earnil by 1 for each hero you control with a printed resource icon.
Action: Discard Map of Earnil to play any event card in your discard pile as if it were in your hand. Then, place that event on the bottom of your deck.
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2
Action: Discard Caldara to put 1 ally from your discard pile into play for each other hero you control with a printed resource icon. (Limit once per game.)
...there is no purpose higher in the world as it now stands than the good of Gondor...
–Denethor, The Return of the King
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3
Action: Discard the top 3 card of your deck to put Emery into play from your hand, under any player's control. Then, if any of the discarded cards have the 
, 
or 
sphere, discard Emery.
Action: Choose a Silvan or Noldor ally you control. That ally gets +2 until the end of the phase. At the end of the phase, shuffle that ally into its owner's deck if it is still in play.
"For deep in the hears of all my kindred lies the sea–longing, which it is perilous to stir"
–Legolas, The Return of the King
Action: Choose a hero. Until the end of the phase, that hero gets +1 for each resource in its resource pool.
An Elven–maid there was of old.
A shining star by day:
Her mantle white was hemmed with hold,
Her shoes of silver–grey.
–The Fellowship of the Ring
0
0
1
1โ
8
Response: After Westfold Horse-breeder enters play, search the top 10 cards of your deck for a Mount attachment and add it to your hand. Shuffle your deck.
"They love their horses next to their kin." –Boromir, The Fellowship of the Ring
Attach to a hero.
While attached hero is ready, shadow cards dealt to enemies engaged with you are dealt face up. (Shadow card effects are still resolved when resolving enemy attacks.)
...one of them uncovered a small lamp that gave out a slender silver beam. –The Fellowship of the Ring
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2
Action: Choose another player. That player gains control of Blue Mountain Trader. Then, that player moves 1 resource from the resource pool of a hero he controls to the resource pool of a hero you control, or Blue Mountain Trader is discarded. (Limit once per round.)
Limit 1 per deck. Attach to a hero.
Response: When attached hero is destroyed, add The Fall of Gil-Galad to the victory display to reduce your threat by X, where X is the attached hero's threat cost.
...for into darkness fell his star
in Mordor where the shadows are.
โThe Fellowship of the Ring
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3
Response: After a location is explored, ready Idraen.
"Where now are the Dรบnedain, Elessar, Elessar? Why do thy kinsfolk wander afar?" –Galadriel, The Two Towers
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You may give Greyflood Wanderer doomed 2 when you play from your hand. If you do, it gains:
Response: After you play Greyflood Wanderer, place 1 progress token on each location in play.
...others had gone west, and with the help of Aragorn and the Rangers had searched the lands far down the Greyflood... –The Fellowship of the Ring
Attach to a Scout hero.
While attached character is committed to the quest, place 1 progress on the first location revealed by the encounter deck each round.
"I have had a hard life and a long: and the leagues that lie between here and Gondor are a small part in the count of my journeys." –Aragorn, The Fellowship of the Ring
Action: Choose a hero. That hero gets +2 until the end of the phase. Then, if your threat is 20 or less and this is the first time you played a copy of Courage Awakened this round, return this card to your hand instead of discarding it.
But the courage that had been awakened in him was now too strong: he could not leave his friends so easily. –The Fellowship of the Ring
Response: After your threat is raised by an encounter card effect, reduce your threat by an equal amount.
Suddenly he was aware of himself again. Frodo, neither the Voice nor the Eye; free to choose, and with one remaining instant in which to do so. –The Fellowship of the Ring
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Response: After Celduin Traveler enters play, look at the top card of the encounter deck. If it is a location, you may discard it.
In two days going they rowed right up the Long Lake and passed out into the River Running... –The Hobbit
Action: Return a Silvan ally you control to your hand to reduce your threat by X where X is the printed cost of the ally returned to your hand.
"...we dare not by our own trust endanger our land. We live now upon an island amid many perils..."
–Haldir, The Fellowship of the Ring
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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.)
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Response: After Galadrielโs Handmaiden enters play, choose a player. That player reduces his threat by 1.
Her maidens stood silent about her, and a while she looked upon her guests. –The Fellowship of the Ring
Attach to Galadriel.
Action: Exhaust Mirror of Galadriel to search the top 10 cards of your deck for a card and add it to your hand. Shuffle the rest back into your deck. Then, discard a random card from your hand.
"What you will see, if you leave the Mirror free to work, I cannot tell. For it shows things that were, things that are, things that yet may be."
–Galadriel, The Fellowship of the Ring
Quest Action: Choose a non-unique enemy in the staging area. Until the end of the phase, progress that would be placed on the quest from questing successfully is instead assigned as damage to the chosen enemy. (Progress must still be placed on any active location first.)
Like thunder they broke upon the enemy... –The Return of the King
You must use resources from 3 different heroes' pools to pay for this card.
Action: Discard each shadow card from each enemy in play.
At that moment he caught a flash of white and silver coming from the North, like a small star down on the dusky fields. –The Return of the King
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Warden of Annรบminas gets +1 for each enemy engaged with you.
Rangers passed at times beyond the hills, but they were few and did not stay. –The Fellowship of the Ring
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."We have come a long way with you and been through some stiff times. We want to go on."
–The Fellowship of the Ring
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Forced: After the active location is explored, place Curious Brandybuck on the bottom of its owner's deck.
Response: After you travel to a location, put Curious Brandybuck into play from your hand, under any player's control.
Attach to a Hobbit hero. Restricted.
Quest Action: If attached hero is not committed to the quest, exhaust Hobbit Pony and attached hero to commit attached hero to the quest.
He was riding a pony, and a scarf was swathed round his neck and over his chin to keep out the fog. โThe Fellowship of the Ring
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Discard 2 cards from your hand to put Elven Jeweler into play from your hand, under your control.
"...to the Elven–smiths they were but trifles..." –Gandalf, The Fellowship of the Ring
He was taking a wandering course with many turns and doublings, to put off any pursuit. –The Fellowship of the Ring
Limit 1 per deck.
Response: When this stage is defeated, reduce each player's threat by 5.
Attach to a or Noldor hero. Restricted.
Response: After attached hero commits to a quest, discard a card from your hand to place 2 progress on the active location.
In the dusk its headstall flickered and flashed, as if it were studded with gems like living stars.
–The Fellowship of the Ring
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Cannot attack or defend.
Response: After Galadhrim Weaver enters play, shuffle the top card of your discard pile into your deck.
"You are indeed high in the favour of the Lady! For she herself and her maidens wove this..." –Lรณrien Elf, The Fellowship of the Ring
Attach to a hero. Restricted.
Response: After a card is discarded from your hand, exhaust Silver Harp to return that card to your hand.
Elrond wore a mantle of grey and had a star upon his forehead, and a silver harp was in his hand... –The Return of the King
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Response: After Lindir enters play, if you have less than 3 cards in your hand, draw until you have 3 cards in your hand.
"To sheep other sheep no doubt appear different," laughed Lindir. "Or to shepherds. But Mortals have not been our study. We have other business."
–The Fellowship of the Ring
Lords of the Eldar can only be played from your discard pile.
Action: Place Lords of the Eldar on the bottom of your deck from your discard pile. Then, until the end of the round all Noldor characters get +1 , +1 , and +1 .
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Action: Discard a card from your hand to add 1 resource to a Noldor's resource pool, or to Aragorn's resource pool. (Limit once per round.)
...the light of stars was in her bright eyes, grey as a cloudless night; yet queenly she looked, and thought and knowledge were in her glance, as of one who has known many things that the years bring.
–The Fellowship of the Ring
Elven-light can only be played from your discard pile.
Action: Return Elven-light to your hand from your discard pile. Then, draw 1 card.
Then Aragorn was abashed, for he saw the elven–light in her eyes and the wisdom of many days...
–The Return of the King
Action: Exhaust a Noldor character to ready a Dรบnedain character, or vice-versa. Until the end of the phase, add the exhausted character's printed to the other character's and .
Long was the way that fate them bore,
O'er stony mountains cold and grey,
Through halls of iron and darkling door,
And woods of nightshade morrowless.
–The Fellowship of the Ring
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Draw 1 additional card at the beginning of the resource phase.
Forced: After drawing cards at the beginning of the resource phase, choose and discard 1 of those cards.
Very tall he was, and his beard was long, and he was grey and old, save that his eyes were keen as stars...
–The Return of the King
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While the top card of your discard pile is an event, Sailor of Lune gets +1 and gains: "Cannot be damaged while committed to the quest."
"They are sailing, sailing, sailing over the Sea, they are going into the West and leaving us," said Sam, half chanting the words, shaking his head sadly and solemnly.
–The Fellowship of the Ring
Quest Action: Ready a questing character and give that character +1 until the end of the phase. Resolve that effect again for each copy of Elwingโs Flight currently in your discard pile (you may choose different targets).
There flying Elwing came to him
and flame was in the darkness lit;
more bright than light of diamond
the fire upon her carcanet.
–The Fellowship of the Ring
Attach to a Noldor character.
Action: Exhaust To the Sea, to the Sea! and discard X cards from your hand to reduce the cost of the next Noldor ally played this phase by X (to a minimum of 1).
To the Sea, to the Sea! The white gulls are crying,
The wind is blowing, and the white foam is flying.
–The Return of the King
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Glorfindel can be played from your discard pile.
Action: Discard a card from your hand to ready Glorfindel. (Limit once per phase.)
"He is an Elf-lord of a house of princes."
–Gandalf, The Fellowship of the Ring
Response: When a shadow card increases an enemy's by any amount, increase the defending character's by 3 for that attack. Then, the players as a group may spend 2 resources to ready the defending character and give it +3 for its next attack this phase.
...the tides of fate had turned against them and their doom was at hand.
–The Return of the King
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Response: After an encounter card with surge is revealed, either ready Lanwyn or give her +2 until the end of the phase. (Limit twice per phase.)
“The Men of Dale used to have the trick of understanding their language, and used them for messengers to fly to the Men of the Lake...”
–Thorin, The Hobbit
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Reduce the cost to play Sam Gamgee by 2 if you control Frodo Baggins.
Response: After a player raises his threat, that player may spend 1 resource to ready Sam Gamgee. He gets +1 +1 and +1 until the end of the round. (Limit once per round.)
Play only after the staging step.
Quest Action: Choose X questing Hobbit characters you control. Ready each chosen character and remove them from the quest. Then, reduce your threat by X.
"The road goes on for ever," said Pippin; "but I can't without a rest. It is high time for lunch."
–The Fellowship of the Ring
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Response: After Rhovanion Outrider commits to the quest, place 1 progress on a location in the staging area. If that location is not explored by this effect, give Rhovanion Outrider +1 until the end of the phase.
Response: After you commit characters to the quest, if each character you have commited to the quest is a Scout each of these characters gets +2 until the end of the phase.
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Response: After Woodland Courier enters play, place 1 progress on a location (2 progress instead if that location has the Forest trait).
Attach to a location. Limit 1 per location
Response: After a player plays a Silvan ally from his hand, place 1 progress on attached location.
He made his end of the rope fast about another tree, and then ran lightly along it, over the river and back again, as if he were on a round.
–The Fellowship of the Ring
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Response: After you play Linhir Sea-captain from your hand, if you paid all of its resource cost from a single hero's resource pool, both that hero and Linhir Sea-captain do not exhaust to quest this round.
Attach to a hero, or to รowyn. Restricted.
Attached hero gets +1 .
Response: After attached character is removed from the quest, exhaust Windfola to commit attached hero to the quest.
...the great grey steed Windfola made little of the burden; for Dernhelm was less in weight than many men, though lithe and well-knit in frame. –The Return of the King
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Action: Spend 1 resource to exhaust Sรบlien. Then, each location in the staging area gets -1 until the end of the phase. Any player may trigger this action.
Action: Choose a hero you control. Each hero with lower threat cost than the chosen hero gets +2 until the end of the phase. Then, the players as a group may spend 2 resources to give +2 to each hero with lower threat cost than the chosen hero until the end of the phase.
Wherever he came men's hearts would lift again, and the winged shadows pass from memory.
–The Return of the King
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Response: When you play Erebor Guard from your hand, discard the top 2 cards of your deck to reduce its cost by 2.
...the fortress of the dwarves could not be taken by surprise. –The Hobbit
Play only if you control a unique character with the Noble trait and another unique character with the Scout trait.
Response: After a player engages an enemy, reduce his threat by X, where X is that enemy's printed
...the Captains of the West were well warned by their scouts...
–The Return of the King
Attach to a Silvan hero. Restricted.
Attached hero gets +1 and +1 .
Legolas had a bow and a quiver, and at his belt a long white knife.
–The Fellowship of the Ring
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Response: After Jubayr exhausts to defend an attack, discard 1 facedown shadow card from a non-unique enemy. (Limit once per phase.)
Attach to a Dwarf character. Limit 1 per character.
Response: After a card is discarded from your deck, exhaust Dwarf Pipe to place that card on the bottom of your deck.
He held a small pipe with a wide flattened bowl...
–The Two Towers
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Forced: After this ally enters play, search the top 5 cards of the encounter deck for a non-unique location and add it to the staging area. If no location enters play by this effect, discard Dรบnedain Pathfinder. Shuffle the encounter deck.
Play only if the main quest has no keywords.
Action: Remove X progress from the main quest to place X progress on a location in the staging area.
"Well," said Boromir, "when heads are at a loss bodies must serve..."
–The Fellowship of the Ring
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While a side quest is in the victory display, Rider of Rohan does not exaust to quest.
"Who are you, and what are you doing in this land?" said the Rider, using the Common Speech of the West...
–The Two Towers
Attach to a Hobbit hero. Limit 1 per hero.
Attached hero gets +1 for each Song attached to it.
"I sit beside the fire and think
of how the world will be
when winter comes without a spring
that I shall ever see."
–Bilbo Baggins, The Fellowship of the Ring
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Response: After Fastred defends an enemy attack, return that enemy to the staging area to reduce your threat by 2. (Limit once per phase.)
"King's man! King's man!" his heart cried within him.
–The Return of the King
Attach to a hero. Limit 1 per hero.
Attached hero gains the Scout trait.
Response: After you play Fearless Scout from your hand, draw a card.
...he got right up to the fire–for fire it was–without disturbing anyone. –The Hobbit
“Foes and fire are before you, and your homes far behind. Yet, though you fight upon an alien field, the glory that you reap there shall be your own for ever.”
–Thรฉoden, The Return of the King
Limit 1 copy of Rally the West in the victory display.
While this quest is in the victory display, each hero gets +1 .
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As long as you do not have cards in your hand, Eregion Survivor gets +1 +1 and +1
Play only if you control a unique character with the Noldor trait and another unique character with the Dรบnedain trait.
Action: Choose a non-unique location in the staging area and increase your threat by X to discard it. X is the chosen location's printed quest points.
Play only if you control a Noldor or Silvan hero.
Planning Action: Shuffle a set aside Wind from the Sea into the encounter deck. Then, remove Flight to the Sea from the game.
"...they may pass to the Sea unhindered and leave the Middle–earth forever."
–Haldir, The Two Towers
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While playing an Item attachment, Bard son of Brand is considered to have the printed and icons.
Response: When a character leaves play, return each attachment attached to that character to its owners hand. (Limit once per phase.)
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North Realm Lookout gets +1 and does not exhaust to quest while it has an Item attachment.
There were people on the look–out on the banks.
–The Hobbit
Attach to a Dale or Esgaroth hero.
Planning Action: Exhaust King of Dale to reduce the cost of the next Dale ally you play this phase by 1 for each different player attachment on attached hero. That ally does not require a resource match.
Then Bard II, Brand's son, became King of Dale..
–The Return of the King
Action: Choose an ally with a player attachment. Ready that ally.
...the grim–voiced fellow ran hotfoot to the Master. "The dragon is coming or I am a fool!" he cried. "Cut the bridges! To arms! To arms!"
–The Hobbit
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Response: After Long Lake Fisherman enters play, name a number. Then, search the top 5 cards of your deck for a card whose printed cost is equal to that number and add it to your hand. Shuffle your deck.
Attach to a or Scout character. Limit 1 per character.
Encounter Action: Exhaust attached character and discard Grey Cloak to choose a non-unique enemy in the staging area. That enemy does not make engagement checks against you this phase.
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Cannot have attachments.
Planning Action: Attach Wild Stallion to an ally you control. (Counts as a Mount attachment with the text: "Restricted. Limit 1 per ally. Attached ally gets +1 +1 +1 and +1 hit point.")
Travel Action: Choose a location in the staging area with a player card attachment and make it the active location, returning any previous active location to the staging area. Reduce each player's threat by X, where X is the number of attachments on the active location.
South away! and South away!
Seek the sunlight and the day.
–The Hobbit
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Cannot attack or defend.
Response: After Galion enters play, he gets +1 until the end of the round.
"Here am I waiting and waiting down hero, while you fellows drink and make merry and forget your tasks. Small wonder if I fall asleep from weariness!"
–The Hobbit
Response: Return a Silvan ally you control to your hand to cancel a shadow effect just triggered during combat.
"You would die before your stroke fell."
–Legolas, The Two Towers
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While Dรกin Ironfoot is defending, he gains,"Action: Discard the top card of your deck to give Dรกin Ironfoot +1 for this attack. (Limit 3 times per phase.)"
"The time of my thought is my own to spend."
–The Fellowship of the Ring
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Reduce the cost to play Item attachments on Descendant of Girion by 1.
–Glรณin, The Fellowship of the Ring
Attach to an ally.
Attached ally does not exhaust to quest.
–The Hobbit
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Response: After you play Erebor Toymaker from your hand, reduce the cost of the next attachment played this phase by 2.
There were toys the like of which they had never seen before, all beautiful and some obviously magical.
–The Fellowship of the Ring