Response: After Hirgon quests successfully, play a ally from your hand, reducing its cost by 1 (to a minimum of 1). Then, you may raise your threat by 1 to give that ally +1 and +1 until the end of the round.

"Hirgon I am, errand–rider of Denethor, who bring you this token of war."
–The Return of the King

If Éomer is in play, Lothíriel gains the Rohan trait.

Response: After Lothíriel 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.

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
• reduce your threat by 5.

If there is at least 1 Rohan hero in play, lower the cost to play Guthlaf by 1.

If there is at least 1 Gondor hero in play, Guthlaf gains sentinel.

Attach to a or Rohan hero. Restricted.

Attached hero gets +1 (+2 instead if attached hero is Éomer).

Response: After attached hero attacks alone, exhaust Firefoot to choose a non-unique enemy engaged with you. Excess damage dealt by this attack is assigned to the chosen enemy.

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

Combat Action: Each Rohan hero can be declared as an attacker against enemies in the staging area this phase.

"Oaths ye have taken: now fulfill them all, to lord and land and league of friendship!" –Théoden, The Return of the King

Play only if you control a unique character with the Rohan trait and another unique character with the Gondor trait.

Response: At the beginning of the combat phase, you resolve the step in which you attack enemies before resolving enemy attacks this phase. (Each other player resolves the combat phase as normal after you resolve your attacks.)

Response: At the beginning of the quest phase, search the top 5 cards of the encounter deck for an enemy and put it into play engaged with you. Then, reveal 1 less encounter card this phase (to a minimum of 0). Shuffle the encounter deck.

"We must press our Enemy, and no longer wait upon him for the move."
–Aragorn, The Return of the King

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

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

Draw 3 additional cards at the beginning of the resource phase.

At the end of the round, discard all cards in your hand.

"That is the path of despair. Of folly, I would say, if the long wisdom of Elrond did not forbid me."
–The Fellowship of the Ring

Response: After a Rohan ally is discarded from play by a card effect, ready Éothain.

"We must hasten south, lord. Let us leave these wild folk to their fancies. Or let us bind them and take them to our king."
–The Two Towers

Response: After Weather Hills Watchman enters play, search the top 5 cards of your deck for a Signal card and add it to your hand. Shuffle the other cards back into your deck.

"Rangers use runes, and they come here sometimes." –Aragorn, The Fellowship of the Ring

Attach to a Dúnedain hero.

Planning Action: Exhaust Heir of Valandil to reduce the cost of the next Dúnedain ally you play this phase by 1 for each enemy engaged with you.

"But my home, such as I have, is in the North. For here the heirs of Valandil have ever dwelt in long line unbroken from father unto son for many generations." –Aragorn, The Fellowship of the Ring

Ready up to X Dúnedain characters you control. X is the number of enemies engaged with you.

"But when dark things come from the houseless hills, or creep from sunless woods, they fly from us."
–Aragorn, The Fellowship of the Ring

Planning Action: Until the end of the round, players do not raise their threat from questing unsuccessfully.

Valour Planning Action: Raise each player's threat by 2 to skip the quest phase this round.

"Dooms hangs still on a thread. Yet hope there is still, if we can stand but unconquered for a little while."
–Gandalf, The Two Towers

Forced: After Dúnedain Hunter enters play, search the top 5 cards of the encounter deck for a non-unique enemy and put it into play engaged with you. If no enemy enters play by this effect, discard Dúnedain Hunter. Shuffle the encounter deck.

Attach to an enemy. Limit 1 per enemy.

Attached enemy gets -1 .

Response: When attached enemy is destroyed, reduce each player's threat by the attached enemy's printed .

"If simple folk are free from care and fear, simple they will be, and we must be secret to keep them so." –Aragorn, The Fellowship of the Ring

Play only before the resolving enemy attacks step.

Combat Action: Choose an enemy not engaged with you. Engage that enemy. Then, discard a shadow card from that enemy, if able.

"Many evil things there are that your strong walls and bright swords do not stay." –Aragorn, 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

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 .

Response: After Galadhrim Healer enters play, choose a player. Heal 1 damage from each hero controlled by that player.

"Even if your Quest did not concern us closely, you should have refuge in this City, until you were healed and refreshed."
–Celeborn, The Fellowship of the Ring

Response: Exhaust a Dúnedain or Ranger hero to cancel an enemy card just revealed from the encounter deck. Then, shuffle it back into the encounter deck and reveal an additional encounter card.

"... though I cannot disappear, I have hunted many wild and wary things and I can usually avoid being seen, if I wish."
–Aragorn, The Fellowship of the Ring

Attach to a player's threat dial. Limit 1 per player.

Forced: When you would be eliminated by reaching your threat elimination level, instead discard Favor of the Valar and reduce your threat to 5 less than your threat elimination level. You are not eliminated.

"...their hearts were lifted up in such a hope as they had not known since the darkness came out of the East..."
–The Return of the King

Attach to a unique ally belonging to any sphere of influence.

Attached character loses the ally card type and gains the hero card type.

"But why, lord, did you receive me as sword–thain, if not to stay by your side?"
–Merry, The Return of the King

Action: Reduce the cost of the next event that has a Valour trigger you play this phase by 2.

Valour Action: Search the top 10 cards of your deck for an event that has a Valour trigger and add it to your hand. Shuffle your deck.

Hope he rekindled, and in hope ended;
over death, over dread, over doom lifted
out of loss, out of life, unto long glory.
–The Return of the King

Reduce the cost to play Keen as Lances by 1 for each card worth no victory points in the victory display.

Action: Add Keen as Lances to the victory display. Then, choose one: add 2 resources to a hero's resource pool, draw 3 cards, or reduce your threat by 4.

Action: Each player returns 1 card from their discard pile to their hand (2 cards instead if you are the only player in the game) and shuffles the rest of their discard pile back into their deck. Then, remove this card from the game.

Setup: Add 2 resources to Denethor's resource pool.

Action: Move 1 resource from Denethor's resource pool to another Gondor hero's resource pool. (Limit once per round.)

"...why should I sit here in my tower and think, and watch, and wait, spending even my sons? For I can still wield a brand."
-The Return of the King

Resources in Na'asiyah's resource pool cannot be used to pay for allies.

Action: While Na'asiyah is attacking or defending, pay 1 resource from her resource pool to give her +2 or +2 for this attack.

Response: After drawing your setup hand, instead of taking a mulligan, you may discard any number of cards from your hand. Then, draw that many cards.

Action: If you have no cards in your hand, draw 6 cards. (Limit once per game.)

"What power still remains lies with us..."
–The Fellowship of the Ring

Sentinel.

Action: Spend 1 resource to look at a facedown shadow card dealt to an engaged enemy. If that card has a shadow effect, Eldahir gets +2 until the end of the phase. Any player may trigger this action. (Limit once per phase.)

Knight of the White Tower's resource cost must be paid from a single hero's resource pool.

"...to be only a man of arms of the Guard of the Tower of Gondor is held worthy in the City, and such men have honour in the land." –Beregond, The Return of the King

Attach to a or a Scout character.

Response: At the beginning of the travel phase, exhaust Mariner’s Compass and attached character to search the top 5 cards of the encounter deck for a location. Switch that location with a location in the staging area. Shuffle the encounter deck.

Resource Action: Exhaust a Noble hero you control to add 2 resources to that hero's resource pool.

...in these days men are slow to believe that a captain can be wise and learned in the scrolls of lore and song, as he is, and yet man of hardihood and swift judgement in the field.
–Beregond, The Return of the King

Response: When an enemy attacks a player, that player may declare up to 3 eligible characters as defenders against this attack. Then, the players as a group may spend 2 resources to ready each defending character that takes no damage from this attack.

Response: After Soldier of Dol Amroth enters play, reduce the cost of the next card you play this phase by 1.

...he and his knights still held themselves like lords in whom the race of Númenor ran true
–The Return of the King

Attach to a Warrior character. Limit 1 per character.

Attached character gets +2 hit points.

Response: When another character would be assigned any amount of damage, place 1 of that damage on attached character instead.

Play only if you control a Noldor hero.

Action: Choose a non-unique enemy. Until the end of the phase, treat the chosen enemy's printed text box as if it were blank (except for Traits).

"...seeing an Elf–lord revealed in his wrath, they were dismayed, and their horses were stricken with madness."
–Gandalf, The Fellowship of the Ring

As an additional cost to play Skyward Volley, exhaust a ranged character you control.

Combat Action: Deal 2 damage to an enemy engaged with a player. Resolve that effect again for each copy of Skyward Volley currently in your discard pile (you may choose different targets).

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

Play Entagling Nets into the staging area, unattached.

If unattached, attach Entangling Nets to the next eligible enemy that enters the staging area.

Attached enemy gets -2 and -2

Attach to a location in the staging area.

Progress from questing successfully may be placed on the attached location before it is placed on the current quest.