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"We have been keeping watch on the rivers, ever since we saw a great troop of Orcs going north towards Moria, along the skirts of the mountains, many days ago."
–Haldir of Lórien, The Fellowship of the Ring
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A few of the riders appeared to be bowmen, skilled at shooting from a running horse. –The Two Towers
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"We have been keeping watch on the rivers, ever since we saw a great troop of Orcs going north towards Moria, along the skirts of the mountains, many days ago."
–Haldir, The Fellowship of the Ring
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Response: After Brand son of Bain attacks and defeats an enemy engaged with another player, choose and ready one of that player's characters.
"The grandson of Bard the Bowman rules them, Brand son of Bain son of Bard."
–Glóin, The Fellowship of the Ring
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Trollshaw Scout does not exhaust to attack.
Forced: After Trollshaw Scout attacks, either discard it from play or discard 1 card from your hand.
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Response: After an encounter card with surge is revealed, either ready Lanwyn or give her +2 until the end of the phase. (Limit twice per phase.)
“The Men of Dale used to have the trick of understanding their language, and used them for messengers to fly to the Men of the Lake...”
–Thorin, The Hobbit
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Response: After Marksman of Lórien enters play, choose an enemy. That enemy gets -2 until the end of the round.
"Keen are the eyes of the Elves."
–Aragorn, The Two Towers
Attach to a hero.
Each unique character you control gains +1 .
Action: Reduce your threat by 2 to attach The Arkenstone to a hero controlled by another player and raise that player's threat by 2. (Limit once per round.)
Attach to a hero. Restricted.
Attached hero gets +2 .
Response: After attach hero destroys an enemy, add 1 resource to attached hero's pool.
Attach to a hero.
Response: When attached hero is dealt any amount of damage, reduce that damage by 1.
It was of silver-steel which the Elves call mithril, and with it went a belt of pearls and crystals. –The Hobbit
Attach to a hero. Attached hero gets +2
Response: After attach hero attacks and destroys an enemy, deal 1 damage to an enemy engaged with you.
Guarded (location). Restricted.
Attach to a hero. Attached hero gets +2
You draw 1 additional card during the resource phase.
Looking up he saw before him a tall white tower, standing alone on a high ridge. A great desire came over him to climb the tower and see the Sea.
–The Fellowship of the Ring
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Hobbit Archer gets +1 while attacking an enemy with a higher engagement cost than your threat.
"If you lay a finger on this farmer, or on anyone else, you will be shot at once."
–Merry, The Return of the King
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While Thalin is committed to a quest, deal 1 damage to each enemy as it is revealed by the encounter deck.
There hammer on the anvil smote,
There chisel clove, and graver wrote;
There forged was blade, and bound was hilt;
The delver mined, the mason built.
–The Fellowship of the Ring
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Action: Discard 1 card from your hand to give Éowyn +1 until the end of the phase. This effect may be triggered by each player once each round.
Slender and tall she was in her white robe girt with silver; but strong she seemed and stern as steel, a daughter of kings.
–The Two Towers
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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
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Dúnhere can target enemies in the staging area when he attacks alone. When doing so, he gets +1 .
Captains rode to meet him at the ford, bearing messages from Gandalf. Dúnhere, chieftain of the folk of Harrowdale, was at their head.
–The Return of the King
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Action: Exhaust Denethor to look at the top card of the encounter deck. You may move that card to the bottom of the deck.
"And the lord Denethor is unlike other men: he sees far."
–Beregond, The Return of the King
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Action: Exhaust Beravor to choose a player. That player draws 2 cards. Limit once per round.
But in the wild lands beyond Bree there were mysterious wanderers. The Bree-folk called them Rangers, and knew nothing of their origin.
–The Fellowship of the Ring
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Response: After Son of Arnor enters play, choose an enemy card in the staging area or currently engaged with another player. Engage that enemy.
...and the North-realm they made in Arnor, and the South-realm in Gondor above the mouths of Anduin.
–The Fellowship of the Ring
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Response: After Snowbourn Scout enters play, choose a location. Place 1 progress token on that location.
...he saw not a shadow, nor a blur, but the small figures of horsemen, many horsemen, and the glint of morning on the tips of their spears was like the twinkle of minute stars beyond the edge of mortal sight.
–The Two Towers
Attach to a hero. Restricted.
Attached hero gains +2
If attached hero is Aragorn, he also gains a 
resource icon.
"You needn't," said Bilbo. "As a matter of fact it was all mine. Except that Aragorn insisted on my putting in a green stone. He seemed to think it important. I don't know why."
–The Fellowship of the Ring
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: Exhaust a character you control with the ranged keyword to choose a player. Deal 1 damage to each enemy engaged with that player.
Arrows thick as the rain came whistling over the battlements, and fell clinking and glancing on the stones. Many found their mark. –The Two Towers
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
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
You must use resources from 3 different heroes' pools to pay for this card.
Action: Choose a player. That player's engaged enemies cannot attack that player this phase.
Without a word or cry, suddenly, the Riders halted. A thicket of spears were pointed towards the strangers...
–The Two Towers
Response: After a character is declared as a defender, deal 2 damage to the attacking enemy.
A swift stroke she dealt, skilled and deadly.
–The Return of the King
Attach to a hero. Restricted.
Attached hero gets +4 Hit Points.
"Go to the armouries of the Citadel, and get you there the livery and gear of the Tower."
–Denethor, The Return of the King
Attach to a hero. Restricted.
Attached hero gains +1 (+2 instead if attached hero is a Dwarf.)
"But keep your bow ready to hand, and I will keep my axe loose in my belt."
–Gimli, The Two Towers
Response: Cancel a shadow effect just triggered during combat.
'The hasty stroke goes oft astray,' said Aragorn. 'We must press our Enemy, and no longer wait on him for the next move.'
–The Return of the King
Action: Choose a player. Shuffle that player's discard pile back into his deck. Remove Will of the West from the game.
"If Gondor has such men still in these days of fading, great must have been its glory in the days of its rising."
–Legolas, The Return of the King
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
Attach to a location.
Attached location gets -1 
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"Power to defy our Enemy is not in him, unless shuch power is in the earth itself."
–Gandalf, The Fellowship of the Ring
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 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: Choose a player. Heal all damage on each hero controlled by that player.
"...and my house is open to you, if ever you come back this way again."
–Beorn, The Hobbit
Attach to an enemy engaged with a player.
Attached enemy cannot attack.
"We shall have it like a coney in a trap. Then we shall learn what kind of thing it is."
–Unidentified Man of Gondor,
The Two Towers
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
Attach to a character.
Action: Exhaust Self Preservation to heal 2 points of damage from attached character.
...how much more of this would they have to endure, or could they endure?
–The Two Towers
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.
Permanent. Limit 1 per hero.
Response: After attached hero is declared as an attacker, exhaust Valor to heal 1 damage from attached hero and deal 1 damage to the defening enemy.
Attached hero collects 1 additional resource during each resource phase.
“Yet it is not our part to master all the tides of the world, but to do what is in us for the succour of those years wherein we are set...”
–Gandalf, The Return of the King
Setup. Attach to a hero.
Attached hero gains the 
resource icon.
Action: Choose and discard 3 cards from your hand to heal all damage from a hero. (Limit once per campaign. Record in the Campaign Log when used.)