


Action: Search your deck for a Guarded attachment and put it into play. Shuffle your deck.
His crown shall be upholden,
His harp shall be restrung,
His halls shall echo golden
To songs of yore re–sung
–The Hobbit



You must use resources from 3 different heroes' pools to pay for this card.
Combat Action: Choose and discard a non-unique enemy in the staging area.
...it seemed they could hear the noise of a great hunt going by to the north of the path...
–The Hobbit







Bywater Shirriff gets +1 +1
and +1
while you are engaged with an enemy with engagement cost higher than your threat.
The Shirriffs was the name that the Hobbits gave to their police, or the nearest equivalent that they possessed.
–The Hobbit







Response: After Merry enters play, each unique ally you control gets +1 until the end of the round.
"Shire–folk have been so comfortable so long they don't know what to do. They just want a match, though, and they'll go up in fire."
–The Return of the King







Pippin gets +2 while attacking an enemy with an engagement cost higher than your threat.
Response: After you engage an enemy with an engagement cost higher than your threat, ready Pippin.
"Down on your knees in the road and ask pardon, or I will set this troll's bane in you!"
–The Return of the King



Planning Action: Search the top 5 cards of the encounter deck for an enemy. Add that enemy to the staging area to reduce the cost of the first ally you play this phase by X, where X is that enemy's Shuffle the encounter deck.


Response: Exhaust The One Ring and raise your threat by 1 to cancel the effects of an encounter card just revealed from the encounter deck and discard that card. Then, reveal an encounter card.
“If I, wearing it, were to command you, you would obey, even if it were to leap from a precipice or to cast yourself into the fire.”
–Frodo, The Two Towers


Combat Action: Exhaust The One Ring and raise your threat by 1 to choose a non-Nazgul enemy engaged with you. Until the end of the phase, that enemy cannot attack you.
“He vanished. I have never seen such a thing happen before...”
–Boromir, The Fellowship of the Ring


Action: Exhaust The One Ring and raise your threat by 1 to ready the hero with The One Ring Attached. That hero gets +1 , +1
, and +1
until the end of the phase.
“And behold! in our need chance brings to light the Ring of Power.”
–Boromir, The Fellowship of the Ring







Cannot have attachments.
Setup: Shuffle 2 copies of Stinker into the encounter deck.
Response: After you travel to a location, raise your threat by 1 to draw 1 card.



While your threat is less than 40, reduce the cost to play Pillars of the Kings by 4.
Action: Set your threat to 40. If this effect raised your threat, draw a card (draw 4 cards instead if it raised your threat by 10 or more).
"Behold the Argonath, the Pillars of the Kings!"
–Aragorn, The Fellowship of the Ring







Response: After Cautious Halfling enters play, look at the top card of the encounter deck. If that card is not an enemy, draw a card.
"I thought I had been both careful and clever."
–Frodo, The Fellowship of the Ring



Play only after staging step.
Quest Action: You may declare and resolve an attack against each non-unique enemy in the staging area as if it were engaged with you.
Panic came upon the Goblins; and even as they turned to meet this new attack, the elves charged again with renewed numbers.
–The Hobbit



Attach to the hero with The One Ring.
Limit 1 per hero. Attached hero gets +1
Response: Exhaust The One Ring and raise your threat by 1 to cancel a shadow effect just triggered during an attack that attached hero is defending.







Action: Discard Rohirrim Scout to choose a non-unique enemy in the staging area. That enemy does not make engagement checks against you this round.
Swiftly a scout rode back and reported that wolf–riders were abroad in the valley...
–The Two Towers







You cannot include more than 1 copy of a card, by title, in your deck.
Response: After you play an event from your hand, choose one: reduce your threat by 1, draw 1 card, or add 1 resource to your hero's resource pool. You can only choose each option once per round.
"I must go to this lords' council and learn what I can."
–Gandalf, The Return of the King



Attach to a hero. Limit 1 per hero.
Action: Discard 1 card from your hand to heal 1 damage from attached hero. Any player may trigger this effect.
...behind him stood Galadriel, tall and white: a circlet of golden flowers was in her hair, and in her hand she held a hard, and she sang.
–The Fellowship of the Ring










Response: After you attack and destroy an enemy, shuffle the encounter discard pile into the encounter deck and discard cards from the top until an enemy is discarded. Add that enemy to the staging area to discard a non-unique location with equal to or less that that enemy's



Attach to a character.
Attached character gets +1 hit point.
Response: After you play Spare Pipe search the top 5 cards of your deck for an event and add it to your hand. Shuffle your deck.
"I have carried it a long way, though I don't know why."
–Pippin, The Two Towers


Attach to a non-, non-
hero you control.
Response: After you attach Thorongil to a hero, search your collection for a different non-, non-
version of that hero and attach it to Thorongil. While Thorongil is in play, attached hero gains the game text and resource icon of the attached hero card. If Thorongil leaves play, remove the hero card attached to it from the game.



Attach to a hero. Limit 1 per hero.
Action: Discard 1 card from your hand to heal 1 damage from attached hero. Any player may trigger this effect.
...behind him stood Galadriel, tall and white: a circlet of golden flowers was in her hair, and in her hand she held a hard, and she sang.
–The Fellowship of the Ring









Attach to a non-, non-
hero you control.
Response: After you attach Thorongil to a hero, search your collection for a different non-, non-
version of that hero and attach it to Thorongil. While Thorongil is in play, attached hero gains the game text and resource icon of the attached hero card. If Thorongil leaves play, remove the hero card attached to it from the game.







The first player gains control of Bilbo Baggins.
Bilbo Baggins cannot gain resources from player card effects.
If Bilbo Baggins leaves play, the players lose the game.







Sentinel. Cannot have attachments.
Immune to player card effects.
Beorn does not exhaust to defend.
The roar of his voice was like drums and guns; and he tossed wolves and goblins from his path like straws and feathers.
–The Hobbit



Attach to a hero.
Action: Discard Cram to ready attached hero.
If you want to know what cram is, I can only say that I don't know the recipe; but it is biscuitish, keeps good indefinitely, is supposed to be sustaining, and is certainly not entertaining...
–The Hobbit



Attach to a hero.
Travel Action: Discard Thrór’s Map to choose a location in the staging area. Make that location the active location. (If there is another active location, return it to the staging area.)
"This was made by Thror, your grandfather, Thorin." he said in answer to the dwarves' excited questions. "It is a plan of the Mountain." –Gandalf, The Hobbit






Combat Action: Exhaust a Weapon card attached to a hero you control to choose an enemy engaged with you. Deal 2 damage to that enemy. (Deal 3 damage instead if the enemy is an Orc.)
At this point Gandalf fell behind, and Thorin with him. They turned a sharp corner. "About turn!" he shouted. "Draw your sword, Thorin!" – The Hobbit



Play during the quest phase, before the staging step.
Action: Deal 2 damage to the first enemy revealed from the encounter deck this phase.
Thorin came last - and he was not caught unawares. He came expecting mischief, and didn't need to see his friends' legs sticking out of sacks to tell him that things were not all well. –The Hobbit



Action: Bilbo Baggins gets +2 +2
and +2
until the end of the phase. (You may spend a
resource from Bilbo Baggins' resource pool to play this card even if you do not control Bilbo Baggins.)
“You can say Expert Treasure-hunter instead of Burglar if you like. Some of them do.”
– Glóin, The Hobbit







Bilbo Baggins does not count against the hero limit and cannot gain resources from non-treasure cards. The first player gains control of Bilbo Baggins.
Action: Spend 1 resource to search your deck for a treasure card and add it to your hand.
If Bilbo Baggins leaves play, the players have lost the game.



Action: Exhaust a Weapon attachment to choose a non-unique enemy with 0 . Discard the chosen enemy.
In it smote and vanished, barb, shaft and feather, so fierce was its flight. –The Hobbit



Action: Exhaust a hero you control to shuffle the encounter deck and look at its top card. Place progress tokens on the current quest equal to the revealed card's . Then, put that card back on top of the encounter deck.
As they worked the ravens brought them constant tidings. –The Hobbit






Action: Choose a character in play (other than Bilbo Baggins). Add Bilbo Baggins' total ,
, and
to that character's
and
respectively until the end of the phase.
"I am the clue-finder, the web-cutter, the stinging fly. I was chosen for the lucky number."
–Bilbo Baggins, The Hobbit






Attach to a hero.
Response: After a location is added to the staging area, attach Thrór’s Key to that location. While attached to a location, Thrór’s Key gains:
Treat attached location's printed text box as blank, except for traits.
"The key that went with the map! Try it now while there is still time!" –Bilbo, The Hobbit



Attach to a hero. Limit 1 per hero.
Response: After attached hero quests successfully, name a card type and discard the top card of your deck. If the discarded card is the named type, take it into your hand.


Attach to Bilbo Baggins.
Action: Exhaust Bilbo’s Magic Ring and raise your threat by 1 to gain 1 resource. (Limit once per round.)
Response: After Bilbo Baggins exhausts to defend an attack, exhaust Bilbo’s Magic Ring and raise your threat by 3 to cancel all damage from this attack.


Attach to a hero.
Action: Exhaust The Arkenstone and raise your threat by X to lower by X the cost of the next ally you play this phase that matches the attached hero's sphere.
"...the Heart of the Mountain; and it is also the heart of Thorin. He values it above a rive of gold." –Bilbo, The Hobbit


Attach to Bilbo Baggins.
Attached hero gets +1 and +1 hit point.
"Mr. Baggins!" he cried. "Here is the first payment of your reward! Cast off your old coat and put on this!" – Thorin, The Hobbit







Response: After you engage an enemy with a higher engagement cost than your threat, ready Sam Gamgee. He gets +1 , +1
, and +1
until the end of the round.
"I'm going with him...and if any of those Black Riders try to stop him, they'll have Sam Gamgee to reckon with" –The Fellowship of the Ring







Merry gets +1 for each Hobbit hero you control.
Response: After Merry participates in an attack that destroys an enemy, ready another character that participated in that attack.
"You can trust us to stick to you through thick and thin to the bitter end" –The Fellowship of the Ring







Each enemy in play gets +1 engagement cost for each Hobbit hero you control.
Response: After you engage an enemy with an engagement cost higher than your threat, draw a card.
"We Hobbits ought to stick together, and we will"
–The Fellowship of the Ring







Action: Exhaust Fatty Bolger to choose an enemy in the staging area and raise your threat by that enemy's . Until the end of the phase, that enemy does not contribute its
. (Limit once per round.)
"I only hope that you do not need rescuing before the day is out" –The Fellowship of the Ring






