"I am glad to have you standing nigh with your stout legs and your hard axe." –Legolas, The Two Towers

Action: Choose a character. Until the end of the phase, that character gains +1 and +1 .

Throwing back his cloak, he laid his hand on the hilt of a sword that had hung concealed by his side. They did not dare to move.
–The Fellowship of the Ring

Action: Choose a player. That player may declare any number of his eligible characters as defenders against each enemy attacking him this phase.

...and when the task was done, there they would come to an end, alone, houseless, foodless in the midst of a terrible desert. There could be no return. –The Return of the King

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

Response: After Lórien 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

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

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: Choose a character. Heal all damage from that character.

"...understanding, making and healing...These things the Elves of Middle–earth have in some measure gained, though with sorrow."
–Elrond, The Fellowship of the Ring

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

"Radagast is, of course, a worthy Wizard, a master of shapes and changes of hue; and he has much lore of herbs and beasts, and birds are especially his friends." –Gandalf, The Fellowship of the Ring

Action: Look at the top X cards of any player's deck, add 1 of those cards to its owner's hand, and return the rest to the top of the deck in any order.

"Less welcome did the Lord Denethor show me then than of old, and grudgingly he permitted me to search among his hoarded scrolls and books."
–Gandalf, The Fellowship of the Ring

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.

Only one copy of Mendor's Support can be played each round.

Action: Mendor gets +2 , +2 , and +2 until the end of the round.

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.

Attach to a Dwarf hero.

Action: Exhaust King Under the Mountain to look at the top 2 cards of your deck. Add 1 to your hand and discard the other.

"Long ago in my grandfather Thror's time our family was driven out of the far North, and came back with all their wealth and tools to this Mountain on the map." –Thorin, The Hobbit

Action: Exhaust 2 allies you control to shuffle your deck and discard the top 5 cards. Put up to 2 allies discarded by this effect into play under your control. The total cost of the allies put into play cannot exceed the total cost of the allies exhausted to pay for this effect.

“I was coming over the mountains with a friend or two...” –Gandalf, The Hobbit

Response: After Hidden Cache is discarded from your deck, add 2 resources to the resource pool of a hero you control.

Action: Spend 1 resource to draw 1 card.

...there was a good deal of food jumbled carlessly on shelves and on the ground, among an untidy litter of plunder...
–The Hobbit

Action: Exhaust X Dwarf heroes to add X resources to a hero's resource pool and draw 1 card.

"You should see the stone–paved roads of many colours! And the halls and cavernous streets under the earth with arches carved like trees; and the terraces and towers upon the Mountain's sides! Then you would see that we have not been idle." –Glóin, The Fellowship of the Ring

Response: After Galadhrim Minstrel enters play, search the top five 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 that of Elven-song and spoke of things little known on Middle-earth. -The Fellowship of the Ring

Response: After Galadriel's 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

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.

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

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: 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

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.

"The three of us could not challenge a hundred, so we went ahead and spoke with feigned voices, leading them on into the wood." -Haldir, The Fellowship of the Ring

Planning Action: Return each Silvan ally you control to your hand. Then, play each of those allies from your hand one at a time at no cost.

Celeborn came forth and led the host of Lórien...

-The Return of the King

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

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.

Attach to a Warrior hero.

Response: After you optionally engage an enemy, exhaust Captain of Gondor to give attached hero +1 and +1 until the end of the round.

"Boromir it was that drove the enemy at last back from this western shore..." –Beregond, The Return of the King

Attach to a Noble hero.

Response: After attached hero gains any number of resources from a card effect, exhaust Heir of Mardil to ready attached hero.

"...in my turn I bore it, and so did each eldest son of our house, far back into the vanished years before the failing of the kings..."
–Denethor, The Return of the King

Attach to a Gondor hero.

While attached hero has at least 1 resource in its resource pool, Gondor characters get +1

"...still the lords of Gondor have keener sight than lesser men..." –Denethor, The Return of the King

Action: Ready a defending Gondor character. That character gets +1 until the end of the phase.

...seven walls of stone so strong and old that it seemed to have been not builded by carven by giants out of the bones of the earth. –The Return of the King

Action: Each player whose threat is 40 or higher readies all characters he controls.

Response: After Éomund 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

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.

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.

Response: After Riddermark Knight is declared as an attacker, it gets +2 for this attack. At the end of this attack, discard Riddermark Knight.

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: 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

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

Response: After Westfold Lancer quests successfully, discard it to choose a non-unique enemy in the staging area. Deal 2 damage to the chosen enemy.

...the white fury of the Northmen burned the hotter, and more skilled was their knighthood with long spears...
–The Return of the King

Action: Discard Westfold Outrider to choose an enemy not engaged with you. Engage the chosen enemy.

"Erkenbrand of Westfold has drawn off those men he could gather towards his fastness at Helm's Deep. The rest are scattered."–Rider of Rohan, The Two Towers

Limit 1 per deck. Attach to a Gondor hero.

Attached hero gets +1

Valour Response: After attached hero quests successfully, add The Red Arrow to the victory display to search the top 5 cards of your deck for an ally and put it into play.

"The Red Arrow has not been seen in the Mark in all my years!"
–Théoden, 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

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: Exhaust and discard The Riddermark’s 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

Attach to a Gondor or Rohan hero.

Response: after attached hero commits to a quest, spend 1 resource from attached hero's resource pool to ready attached hero.

...fresh horses were always in readiness to bear his errand–riders to Rohan in the Noth... –The Return of the King

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

Attach to a hero with Sentinel. Limit 1 per hero.

Response: Exhaust Raven-winged Helm to prevent 1 point of damage just dealt to attached character.

He had a small hauberk, its rings of forged of steel, maybe, yet black as jet; and a high-crowned helm with small raven-wings on either side, set with a silver star in the centre of the circlet.
–The Return of the King