Response: After Longbeard Orc Slayer enters play, deal 1 damage to each Orc enemy in play.

Five dead Orcs lay there. They had been hewn with many cruel strokes, and two had been beheaded. The ground was wet with their dark blood.
–The Two Towers

Action: Until the end of the phase, all characters get +1 . All Gondor characters also get +1 until the end of the phase.

And the tree that was withered shall be renewed,
and he shall plant it in high places,
and the City shall be blessed.
–The Return of the King

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

Attach to a hero. Restricted.

Attached hero gets +1 when attacking an Orc.

Response: After attached hero attacks and destroys an enemy, place 1 progress token on the current quest.

It was rather splendid to be wearing a blade made in Gondolin for the goblin–wars of which so many songs had sung...
–The Hobbit

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

Response: After you travel to a location, exhaust a character to place 2 progress tokens on that location.

Then Aragorn lead the way, and such was the strength of his will in that hour that all the Dúnedain and their horses followed him.
–The Return of the King

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

Attach to a hero.

Action: Exhaust Unexpected Courage to ready attached hero.

"Here am I, naughty little fly;
you are fat and lazy.
You cannot trap me, though you try,
in your cobwebs crazy."
–Bilbo Baggins, The Hobbit

Action: Exhaust Daughter of the Nimrodel to heal up to 2 damage on any 1 hero.

"Here is Nimrodel! Of this stream the Silvan Elves made many songs long ago, and still we sing them in the North...I will bathe my feet, for it is said that the water is healing to the weary." –Legolas, The Fellowship of the Ring

Action: Exhaust Henamarth Riversong to look at the top card of the encounter deck.

"And I reckon there's Elves and Elves. They're all elvish enough, but they're not all the same."
–Sam Gamgee,
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

Attach to a hero. Attached hero gets -1

Response: Exhaust Dark Knowledge to look at 1 shadow card that was just dealt to an enemy attacking you.

'Go on then!' said Frodo. 'What do you know?'
'Too much; too many dark things,' said Strider grimly.
–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

Attach to a hero.

Action: Exhaust Unexpected Courage to ready attached hero.

"You cannot trap me, though you try,
in your cobwebs crazy."
–Bilbo Baggins, The Hobbit

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.

"...we went ahead and spoke with feigned voices..."
–Haldir, The Fellowship of the Ring

Action: Exhaust Henamarth Riversong to look at the top card of the encounter deck.

"And I reckon there's Elves and Elves. They're all elvish enough, but they're not all the same."
–Sam Gamgee, The Fellowship of the Ring

Attach to a hero. Restricted.

Attached hero gets +1 when attacking an Orc.

Response: After attached hero attacks and destroys an enemy, place 1 progress token on the current quest.

Attach to a quest card in play. Limit 1 per quest.

Response: After attached quest is defeated, each player either draws 2 cards or heals up to 5 damage from among characters he controls.

"...through the ages of the world we have fought the long defeat."
–Galadriel, The Fellowship of the Ring

Action: Exhaust a Dwarf character to place 2 progress tokens on the active location. (4 progress tokens instead if it is an Underground or Mountain location.)

"There is a land where our fathers worked of old..."
Gimli, The Fellowship of the Ring

Action: Return a Silvan ally you control to your hand to choose a player. Deal 1 damage to each enemy engaged with that player.

The marauding orcs had been waylaid and almost all destroyed...
–The Fellowship of the Ring

Response: After Frodo Baggins is damaged, cancel the damage and instead raise your threat by the amount of damage he would have been dealt. (Limit once per phase.)

Frodo began to feel restless, and the old paths seemed too well–trodden. he looked at maps and wondered what lay beyond their edges... –The Fellowship of the Ring

Attach to a character.

Attached character gains the Rohan trait.

"Nor indeed am I a stranger: for I have been in this land before, more than once, and ridden with the host of the Rohirrim, though under other name and in other guise." –Aragorn, The Two Towers

Action: Spend 1 resource to give Longbeard Map-Maker +1 until the end of the phase.

On the table in the light of a big lamp with a red shade he spread a piece of parchment rather like a map. –The Hobbit

Attach to a character. Restricted.

Response: Exhaust A Burning Brand to cancel a shadow effect just triggered during an attack that attached character is defending.

"Keep close to the fire, with your faces outward!" cried Strider. "Keep some of th elonger sticks ready in your hands."
–The Fellowship of the Ring

Action: Move any number of damage from one enemy to another.

That's cursed rebel-talk, and I'll stick you, if you don't shut it down, see? –Orc Soldier, The Return of the King

Radagast collects 1 resource each resource phase. These resources can be used to pay for Creature cards played from your hand.

Action: Spend X resources from Radagast's pool to heal X wounds on any 1 Creature.

"I have an urgent errand. My news is evil."

Quest Action: Discard a ally to give each hero committed to this quest +1 until the end of the phase.

In the dark at the rear, grim and silent, walked Aragorn.
–The Fellowship of the Ring

Action: Choose an Eagle ally. Return that character to its owner's hand.

Not event an eagle poised against the sun would have marked the hobbits sitting there, under the weight of doom...
–The Two Towers

Attach to a hero.

Action: Exhaust Support of the Eagles to choose an Eagle ally. Until the end of the phase, attached hero adds that ally's or (choose 1) to its own.

"I would bear you, whither you will, even were you made of stone." –Gwaihir, 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

Action: Exhaust Zigil Miner and name a number to discard the top 2 cards of your deck. If at least one of those cards has cost equal to the named number, choose a hero you control. For each card that matches the named number, add 1 resource to that hero's resource pool.

Action: Exhaust a Dwarf character to place 2 progress tokens on the active location. (4 progress tokens instead if it is an Underground or Mountain location.)

Action: Discard the top card of your deck. If the discarded card's printed cost is equal to or higher than the number of characters you control, draw 2 cards and deal 2 damage to any enemy.

Attach to a hero. Limit 1 per hero.

Attached hero gets +1 for each resource token on another copy of Keeping Count that is above the current number of resource tokens on this card.

Forced: After attached hero attacks and destroys an enemy, place 1 resource token on this card.

Attach to a Dwarf hero.

Response: After you play a Dwarf character from your hand, exhaust Legacy of Durin to draw 1 card.

Attach to a Dwarf or Hobbit character. Restricted.

Attached character gets +1 hit point and +1 .

"And all the arrows of all the hunters in the world would be in vain..."
–Gimli, The Fellowship of the Ring

Secrecy 3.

Action: Enemies engaged with you cannot attack you this phase.

Response: After Longbeard Elder commits to a quest, look at the top card of the encounter deck. If that card is a location, place 1 progress token on the current quest. Otherwise, Longbeard Elder gets -1 until the end of the phase.

Action: Exhaust Imladris Stargazer to choose a player. That player looks at the top 5 cards of his deck and then returns them to the top of his deck in any order.

Attach to a hero.

Action: Discard Healing Herbs and exhaust attached hero to heal all damage on 1 character.

Secrecy 4.

Response: After a non-unique enemy attacks you, put that enemy on the bottom of the encounter deck. If your threat is lower than that enemy's engagement cost, set your threat equal to the engagement cost of that enemy.

Action: Exhaust Master of the Forge to search the top 5 cards of your deck for any 1 attachment and add it to your hand. Shuffle the other cards back into your deck.

Action: Choose a Gondor hero. Add 1 resource to that hero's resource pool.

Kings made tombs more splendid than houses of the living, and counted old names in the rolls of their descent dearer than the names of sons. –The Two Towers

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: All characters get +2 and do not exhaust to defend until the end of the round.

"The beacons of Gondor are alight, calling for aid." –Gandalf, The Return of the King

Play Ranger Spikes into the staging area unattached.

If unattached, attach Ranger Spikes to the next eligible enemy that enters the staging area.

Players do not make engagement checks against attached enemy. Attached enemy gets -2 .

Each Outlands character you control gets +1 .

...foremost on the field rode the swan–knights of Dol Amroth with their Prince and his blue banner at their head. –The Return of the King

Action: Name a sphere. Until the end of the phase, you can spend resources of any sphere when paying for cards that belong to the named sphere.

The townlands were rich, with wide tilth and many orchards, and homesteads there were with oast and garner, fold and byre, and many rills rippling through the green from the highlands down to the Anduin. –The Return of the King