Combat Action: Return a Silvan ally you control to your hand to choose an enemy engaged with a player. That enemy cannot attack that player this phase.

"...we went ahead and spoke with feigned voices..."
–Haldir, The Fellowship of the Ring

Action: Pay 1 resource from Glorfindel's pool to heal 1 damage on any character. (Limit once per round.)

"You saw him for a moment as he is upon the other side: one of the mighty of the firstborn."
–Gandalf, The Fellowship of the Ring

Response: After Thorin Stonehelm is declared as an attacker, discard the top card of your deck to deal 1 damage to an enemy engaged with you.

Thorin III Stonehelm, Dain's son, became King under the mountain.
–The Return of the King

At the end of the round, discard Gandalf from play.

Response: After Gandalf enters play, (choose 1): draw 3 cards, deal 4 damage to 1 enemy in play, or reduce your threat by 5.

Response: After Galadhrim Minstrel enters play, search the top 5 cards of your deck for an event card and add it to your hand. Shuffle the other cards back into your deck.

...the language was of Elven–song and spoke of things little now in Middle–earth.
–The Fellowship of the Ring

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.)

Combat Action: Choose an enemy engaged with a player. That enemy cannot attack that player this phase.

A few brave men were strung before them to make a feint of resistance, and many there fell before the rest drew back and fled to either side.
–The Hobbit

Quest Action: Choose a location in the staging area. Until the end of the phase, that location does not contribute its

...Beorn advised them to take this way; for at a place a few days' ride due north of the Carrock was the gate of a little–known pathway through Mirkwood... –The Hobbit

Action: Exhaust a character you control to immediately declare it as an attacker (and resolve its attack) against any eligible enemy target.

"...for he that strikes the first blow, if he strikes it hard enough, may need to strike no more." –Gandalf, The Two Towers

Action: Search the top 5 cards of your deck for any number of Eagle cards and add them to your hand. Shuffle the other cards back into your deck.

"The Eagles! The Eagles!" –Bilbo Baggins, The Hobbit

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." –Éomer, The Return of the King

Response: After a character leaves play, ready Prince Imrahil. (Limit once per round.)

But beyond, in the great fief of Belfalas, dwelt Prince Imrahil in his castle of Dol Amroth by the sea, and he was of high blood, and his fold also, tall men and proud with sea-grey eyes. –The Return of the King.

Action: Move any number of resource tokens from a hero's resource pool to any other hero's resource pool.

Inside the hall there was piled a large assortment of packages and parcels and small articles of furniture. –The Fellowship of the Ring

Sentinel. Landroval cannot have restricted attachments.

Response: After a hero card is destroyed, return Landroval to his owner's hand to put that hero back into play, with 1 damage token on it. (Limit once per game.)

Action: Move any number of damage from one enemy to another.

That's cursed rebel-talk, and I'll stick you, if you don't shut it down, see? –Orc Soldier, The Return of the King

Radagast collects 1 resource each resource phase. These resources can be used to pay for Creature cards played from your hand.

Action: Spend X resources from Radagast's pool to heal X wounds on any 1 Creature.

"I have an urgent errand. My news is evil."

Response: After Keen-eyed Took enters play, reveal the top card of each player's deck.

Action: Return Keen-eyed Took to your hand to discard the top card of each player's deck.

Then something Tookish woke up inside him...
–The Hobbit

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 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

Attach to a Hobbit character.

Action: Exhaust Fast Hitch to ready attached character.

'And I put as fast a hitch over the stump as any one could have done, in the Shire or out of it.' –Sam, The Two Towers

While Dáin Ironfoot is ready, Dwarf characters get +1 and +1 .

"You have not heard of Dain and the dwarves of the Iron Hills?" –Bilbo Baggins, The Hobbit

Play after shadow cards have been dealt, before any attacks have resolved.

Combat Action: Each player may choose and discard 1 facedown shadow card from an enemy with which he is engaged.

"Dawn take you all, and be stone to you!" –Gandalf, The Hobbit

Attach to a hero.

Action: Exhaust Support of the Eagles to choose an Eagle ally. Until the end of the phase, attached hero adds that ally's or (choose 1) to its own.

"I would bear you, whither you will, even were you made of stone." –Gwaihir, The Return of the King

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

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.

While Elladan is in play, Elrohir gets +2 .

Response: After Elrohir is declared as a defender, pay 1 resource from his resource pool to ready him.

"We will not turn back."
–The Return of the King

Action: Discard the top card of your deck. If the discarded card's printed cost is equal to or higher than the number of characters you control, draw 2 cards and deal 2 damage to any enemy.

Secrecy 3.

Action: Reveal the top 5 cards of your deck and put 1 revealed ally into play, if able. Shuffle all other revealed cards back into your deck.

Attach to a hero. Limit 1 per hero.

Attached hero gets +1 for each resource token on another copy of Keeping Count that is above the current number of resource tokens on this card.

Forced: After attached hero attacks and destroys an enemy, place 1 resource token on this card.

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.

Secrecy 2.

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.

Attach to a Hobbit hero.

Action: Discard Good Meal to lower the cost of the next event you play this round that matches attached hero's sphere by 2.

While Elrohir is in play, Elladan gets +2 .

Response: After Elladan is declared as an attacker, pay 1 resource from his resource pool to ready him.

"Yes, the Dead ride behind."
–The Return of the King

Attach to a hero.

Response: After Song of Eärendil 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.

Secrecy 2.

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.

Response: After a Dwarf character leaves play, shuffle the encounter discard pile back into the encounter deck.

'He is dead then,', said Frodo. 'I feared it was so.'
–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

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

Response: After a location enters play, exhaust a Hobbit to shuffle that location back into the encounter deck. Then, reveal 1 card from the encounter deck and add it to the staging area.

"I suppose we haven't lost more than two days by my short cut through the Forest!"
–Frodo, 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

Attach to 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

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 Master of the Forge to search the top 5 cards of your deck for any 1 attachment and add it to your hand. Shuffle the other cards back into your deck.

Secrecy 3.

Action: Look at the top 3 cards of the encounter deck. You may select 1 card and move it to the bottom of the encounter deck. Return any unselected cards to the top of the encounter deck, in any order.

Attach to Elrond. He gains a resource icon.

Action: Exhaust Elrond and Vilya to reveal the top card of your deck. You can immediately play or put into play the revealed card for no cost, if able. Otherwise, move the revealed card to the bottom of your deck.

...mightiest of the Three. –The Return of the King

Lower the cost to play Citadel Custodian by 1 for each Gondor ally in play.

Action: Discard Damrod from play to lower your threat by 1 for each enemy in the staging area.

Action: Exhaust Master of Lore to name a card type. Lower the cost for you to play the next card of that type by 1 until the end of the phase (to a minimum of 1).

"If Cirith Ungol is named, old men and masters of lore will blanch and fall silent." –Faramir, The Two Towers

Play Ranger Spikes into the staging area unattached.

If unattached, attach Ranger Spikes to the next eligible enemy that enters the staging area.

Players do not make engagement checks against attached enemy. Attached enemy gets -2 .