





Setup: Reduce your threat by 3.
Action: Raise your threat by 3 to ready Éowyn. She gets +9 Attack until the end of the phase. (Limit once per game for the group.)
"But no living man am I! You look upon a woman. Éowyn I am, Éomund's daughter."
-The Return of the King







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



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 Lórien."
–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 Lórien,
The Fellowship of the Ring







Action: Exhaust Daughter of the Nimrodel to heal up to 2 damage on any 1 hero.
"Here is Nimrodel! Of this stream the Silvan Elves made many songs long ago, and still we sing them in the North...I will bathe my feet, for it is said that the water is healing to the weary." –Legolas, The Fellowship of the Ring



Action: Choose a player. That player draws 3 cards.
"That is the fairest of all the dwellings of my people. There are no trees like the tress of that land."
–Legolas, The Fellowship of the Ring



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







Response: After Arwen Undómiel 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 Lúthien had come on earth again...for she was the Evenstar of her people.
–The Fellowship of the Ring







Response: After Naith Guide enters play, choose a hero. That hero does not exhaust to quest this round.
"I shall lead you well..."
–Haldir, The Fellowship of the Ring







Action: Pay 1 resource from a hero's resource pool to add 1 resource to Bifur's resource pool. Any player may trigger this ability. (Limit once per round.)
"And winter comes after autumn." – Bifur, The Hobbit













Response: After Envoy of Pelargir enters play, add 1 resource to a Gondor or Noble hero's resource pool.



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: Each player must exhaust a character and discard the top card of his deck, if able. If the printed cost of the discarded card is equal to or higher than the remaining hit points of the exhausted character, discard the exhausted character.







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: Each player returns the topmost attachment card from his discard pile to his hand.
...he was just sitting down to a nice little second–breakfast in the dinning–room...
–The Hobbit



















Action: Exhaust Gildor Inglorion to look at the top 3 cards of your deck. Switch one of those cards with a card from your hand. Then, return the 3 cards to the top of your deck, in any order.
"Go not to the Elves for counsel, for they will say both no and yes." –Frodo Baggins, 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


When Revealed: Remove 1 progress token from each location in play. Then, discard the top card of each player's deck for each progress token removed by this effect.







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







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 Mirkwood Runner is attacking alone, the defending enemy does not count its .
"...let a ploughman plough, but choose an otter for swimming, and for running light over grass and leaf or over snow-an Elf."
–Legolas, The Fellowship of the Ring







Action: Pay 1 resource from a hero's resource pool to add 1 resource to Bifur's resource pool. Any player may trigger this ability. (Limit once per round.)
"And winter comes after autumn." – Bifur, The Hobbit







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.




When Revealed: Each player must exhaust a character and discard the top card of his deck, if able. If the printed cost of the discarded card is equal to or higher than the remaining hit points of the exhausted character, discard the exhausted character.



Action: Raise your threat by 1 to look at the top card of the encounter deck. Then, reduce your threat by X, where X is the threat of that card.






The first player gains control of Arwen Undómiel, as an ally.
Response: After Arwen Undómiel exhausts, choose a hero. Add 1 resource to that hero's resource pool.
If Arwen Undómiel leaves play, the players are defeated.



Action: Search the top 5 cards of the encounter deck for any 1 non-objective card worth no victory points and add it to your victory display. Shuffle the encounter deck. Add Out of the Wild to the victory display.






The first player gains control of Arwen Undómiel, as an ally.
Response: After Arwen Undómiel, choose a hero. Add 1 resource to that hero's resource pool.
If Arwen Undómiel leaves play, the players are defeated.







Response: After Arwen Undómiel 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 Lúthien had come on earth again...for she was the Evenstar of her people.
–The Fellowship of the Ring


Attach to a hero you control.
Attached hero collects 1 additional resource during the resource phase each round.







Response: After Háma is declared as an attacker, return a event from your discard pile to your hand. Then, choose and discard 1 card from your hand. (Limit 3 times per game for the group.)
"Yet in doubt a man of worth will trust to his own wisdom." –The Two Towers







Action: Choose and discard 1 card from your hand to draw 1 card. (Limit once per round.)
Beside Glorfindel there were several other counsellors of Elrond's household, of whom Erestor was the chief...
–The Fellowship of the Ring



Attach to a Dwarf or Hobbit character. Restricted.
Attached character gets +1 hit point and +1 .
"And all the arrows of all the hunters in the world would be in vain..."
–Gimli, The Fellowship of the Ring



Action: Exhaust an Istari character to search your deck for 1 card and add it to your hand. Shuffle your deck.
"Picking up a faggot he held it aloft for a moment, and then with a word of command, naur an edraith ammen! he thrust the end of his staff into the midst of it. At once a great spout of green and blue flame sprang out, and the wood flared and sputtered." –The Fellowship of the Ring







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










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.



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



Refresh Action: Exhaust 2 heroes to draw 5 cards.
"Here you will hear many songs and tales-if you can keep awake. But except on high days it usually stands empty and quiet. and people come here who wish for peace, and thought. There is always a fire here, all the year round, but there is little other light."
–Gandalf, The Fellowship of the Ring


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.