Attach to a hero.

Attached hero gains a resource icon.

If attached hero is Aragorn, each character you control gets +1 .

"For the Sword that was Broken is the Sword of Elendil that broke beneath him when he fell."
–Aragorn, The Fellowship of the Ring

Attach to a Noldor or Silvan character, or to Aragorn. Limit 1 per character.

Attached character gains ranged.

If attached character has the printed ranged keyword, it gets +1 during a ranged attack.

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

Secrecy 3.

Attach to a hero you control.

Attached hero collects 1 additional resource during the resource phase each round.

Response: After Háma is declared as an attacker, return a event from your discard pile to your hand. Then, choose and discard 1 card from your hand. (Limit 3 times per game for the group.)

"Yet in doubt a man of worth will trust to his own wisdom." –The Two Towers

Response: After an enemy is added to the staging area, deal 1 damage to that enemy. Players ignore that enemy while making engagement checks this round.

Erebor Battle Master gets +1 for each other Dwarf ally you control. (Limit +4 .)

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

Attach to a hero. Limit 1 per hero.

Response: After a Song card is played, exhaust Love of Tales to add 1 resource to attached hero's resource pool.

"I listened because I couldn't help myself, if you know what I mean. Lor bless me, sir, but I do love tales of that sort."
–Sam Gamgee, The Fellowship of the Ring

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

Attach to a Noldor or Silvan hero.

Suddenly into view below came a white horse, gleaming in the shadows, running swiftly. In the dusk its headstall flickered and flashed as if it were studded with gems like living stars. –The Fellowship of the Ring

You may spend resources from Elrond's resource pool to pay for , , and allies.

Response: After a character is healed by another card effect, heal 1 damage on it.

"But you do not stand alone."
–The Fellowship of the Ring

Attach to a hero.

Each Dwarf gets +1 hit point.

"We will seek the hidden door together. And we will come through. In the ruins of of the Dwarves, a dwarf's head will be less easy to bewilder than Elves or Men or Hobbits."
–Gandalf, The Fellowship of the Ring

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

Attach to a hero.

Action: Discard Miruvor to (choose two):

• ready attached hero
• add 1 resource to attached hero's resource pool
• attached hero gets +1 until the end of the round
• put Miruvor on the top of your deck.

Action: Exhaust Errand-rider to move 1 resource from the resource pool of a hero you control to another hero's resource pool.

For the people of the City used horses very little and they were seldom seen in their streets, save only those ridden by the errand–riders of their lord. –The Return of the King

Action: Until the end of the phase, each Gondor card in play gains the Rohan trait, and each Rohan card in play gains the Gondor trait.

"These are the Rohirrim, as we name them, masters of horses... and have ever proved true to us, aiding us at need, and guarding our northern marches and the Gap of Rohan." –Faramir, The Two Towers

"And the Enemy must pay dearly for the crossing of the River." –Denethor, The Return of the King

Attach to a character. Restricted.

Limit 1 per character.

Response: After attached character is declared as a defender, deal 1 damage to the attacking enemy.

Attach to a Gondor or Dúnedain hero.

Action: Spend 1 resource from attached hero's resource pool to give attached hero +1 for each resource in its resource pool until the end of the phase. (Limit once per phase.)

"Believe not that in the land of Gondor the blood of Numenor is spent, nor all its pride and dignity forgotten." –Boromir, The Fellowship of the Ring

Response: After you play Hunter of Lamedon from your hand, reveal the top card of your deck. If it is an Outlands card, add it to your hand. Otherwise, discard it.

From Lamedon, a few grim hillmen without a captain. –The Return of the King

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

Each Outlands character you control gets +1 .

... grim–faced they were, and shorter and somewhat swarthier than any men that Pippin had yet seen in Gondor. – The Return of the King

Each Outlands character you control gets +1 .

We heard of the horns in the hills ringing,
the swords shining in the South–kingdom.
–The Return of the King

Each Outlands character you control gets +1 hit point.

From the Anfalas, the Langstrand far away, a long line of men of many sorts, hunters and herdsmen and men of little villages... –The Return of the King

Each hero you control with a printed resource icon gets -1 threat cost.

"...the Elves feared and distrusted the world outside..."
–The Fellowship of the Ring

Play only if each hero you control has the printed resource icon.

Action: Until the end of the phase, if the current quest does not have Siege it gains Battle.

Response: After a card effect adds any number of resources to the resource pool of a hero you control, Harbor Master gains +1 until the end of the round.

For the Elves of the High Kindred had not yet forsaken Middle–earth, and they dwelt still at that time at the Grey Havens...–The Fellowship of the Ring

If each hero you control has the Hobbit trait, Pippin gains:

Response: After an enemy engages you, raise your threat by 3 to return it to the staging area. Until the end of the round, that enemy cannot engage you.

"There must be someone with intelligence in the party." –The Fellowship of the Ring

Attach to a Gondor or Outlands hero.

If each hero you control has a printed resource icon, Lord of Morthond gains:

Response: After you play a ally, ally or ally, draw 1 card.

"The Captains of the Outlands are expected up the South Road ere sundown. Come with us and you will see." –Bergil, The Return of the King

Play Ithilien Pit into the staging area unattached.

If unattached, attach Ithilien Pit to the next eligible enemy that enters the staging area.

Any character may choose attached enemy as the target of an attack.

Play only if each of your heroes is a Hobbit.

Combat Action: Enemies engaged with you do not attack this round. You cannot declare attacks this round.

They possessed from the first the art of disappearing swiftly and silently, when large folk whom they do not wish to meet come blundering by...
–The Fellowship of the Ring

Attach to a Gondor ally.

Attached ally gains the Outlands trait.

The Morthond Valye made a great bay that beat up against the sheer southern faces of the mountains.
–The Return of the King

Play only if you control at least 1 Ranger character.

Action: Deal 3 damage to an enemy with at least 1 Trap card attached to it.

"For coming unbidden to this play death is our law." –Anborn, The Two Towers

Attach to a Noble hero.

Planning Action: Exhaust Palantir and attached hero to name a card type and look at the top 3 cards of the encounter deck. For each of those cards that matches the named type, draw a card. For each of those cards that does not match the named type, raise your threat by 2.

Encounter Action: Engage each enemy in play.

..we have this honour: ever we bear the brunt of the chief hatred of the Dark Lord, for that hatred comes down out of the of the depths of time and over the deeps of the Sea.
–Denethor, The Return of the King

Action: Discard the top 3 card of your deck to put Emery into play from your hand, under any player's control. Then, if any of the discarded cards have the , or sphere, discard Emery.

Action: Choose a Silvan or Noldor ally you control. That ally gets +2 until the end of the phase. At the end of the phase, shuffle that ally into its owner's deck if it is still in play.

"For deep in the hears of all my kindred lies the sea–longing, which it is perilous to stir"
–Legolas, The Return of the King

Action: Exhaust Anborn to return 1 Trap card from your discard pile to your hand.

"I sent my keenest huntsmen to seek him, but he slipped them, and they had no sight of him till now, save Anborn."
–Faramir, The Two Towers

Play Poisoned Stakes into the staging area unattached.

If unattached, attach Poisoned Stakes to the next eligble enemy that enters the staging area.

At the end of each round, deal 2 damage to attached enemy.

Action: Discard the top 2 cards of your deck. You may attach 1 attachment card discarded by this effect to an eligible Dwarf character in play.

Gimli the Dwarf alone wore openly a short shirt of steel–rings, for dwarves make light of burdens...
–The Fellowship of the Ring

Sentinel.

Each hero with a printed resource icon gets +1 .

'To me! To me!' cried Théoden. 'Up Eorlingas! Fear no darkness!' – 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

Attach to a Rohan character. Restricted.

Attached character gets +1 (+2 instead if attacking an enemy in the staging area).

Right through the press drove Théoden Thengel's son, and his spear was shivered as he threw down thier chieftan. –The Return of the King

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

Response: After a character leaves play, Éomer gets +2 until the end of the round. (Limit once per round.)

"I am named Éomer son of Éomund, and am called the Third Marshal of Riddermark." –The Two Towers

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

Attach to a hero.

While attached hero is ready, shadow cards dealt to enemies engaged with you are dealt face up. (Shadow card effects are still resolved when resolving enemy attacks.)

...one of them uncovered a small lamp that gave out a slender silver beam. –The Fellowship of the Ring