Response: After you play Erebor Toymaker from your hand, reduce the cost of the next attachment played this phase by 2.

There were toys the like of which they had never seen before, all beautiful and some obviously magical.
–The Fellowship of the Ring

North Realm Lookout gets +1 and does not exhaust to quest while it has an Item attachment.

There were people on the look–out on the banks.
–The Hobbit

Action: Choose an attachment with a printed cost of X in any player's discard pile and play that attachment for no cost. (The chosen attachment can belong to any sphere of influence.)

The Sword of Elendil was forged anew by Elvish smiths... –The Fellowship of the Ring

Travel Action: Choose a location in the staging area with a player card attachment and make it the active location, returning any previous active location to the staging area. Reduce each player's threat by X, where X is the number of attachments on the active location.

South away! and South away!
Seek the sunlight and the day.
–The Hobbit

Action: Choose an ally with a player attachment. Ready that ally.

...the grim–voiced fellow ran hotfoot to the Master. "The dragon is coming or I am a fool!" he cried. "Cut the bridges! To arms! To arms!"
–The Hobbit

Forest Road Traveler gets +1 , +1 , and +1 for each attachment on the active location.

Only on the Road would travellers be found...
–The Fellowship of the Ring

Action: Exhaust Long Lake Trader to move an Item attachment from a character you control to another eligible character.

"Nowhere are there any men so friendly to us as the Men of Dale."
–Glóin, The Fellowship of the Ring

Cannot have attachments.

Response: Discard Loyal Hound to cancel up to 2 damage just dealt to a hero you control.

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

Encounter. Surge.

Cannot have restricted attachments.

When Revealed: The first player chooses a player to take control of Eagle of the North. The chosen player may choose and discard a non-unique enemy in the staging area.

Quest Action: Look at the top 5 cards of the encounter deck. Put any number of those cards on top of the encounter deck and the rest on the bottom in any order. The hero with Master of the Hunt attached gets +3 until the end of the phase.

Soft is the grass, and let foot be like feather!
–The Hobbit

Quest Response: Cancel the “when revealed” effects of a card that was just revealed from the encounter deck. Ready the hero with The Steadfast attached. Add Lay of Courage to the victory display.

I will not say the Day is done,
nor bid the Stars farewell.
–The Return of the King

Combat Action: Choose an enemy. That enemy gets –4 until the end of the phase. The hero with Dragon-slayer attached gets +4 while attacking that enemy this phase.

Grey now as tears, gleaming silver;
red then it rolled, roaring river:
foam dyed with blood flamed at sunset;
as beacons mountains burned at evening
–The Return of the King

At the end of the round, discard Elrond from play.

Response: After Elrond enters play, choose one:

• heal all damage on a hero
• discard a Condition attachment
• each player draws 1 card.

Action: Add Flame of Anor to the victory display and discard the top card of your deck to ready an Istari character you control. That character gets +X until the end of the phase where X is the discarded card's cost.

"You cannot pass!" –Gandalf, The Fellowship of the Ring

Cannot have restricted attachments.

Action: Deal 1 damage to Treebeard to give him +1 and +1 until the end of the phase. (Limit 5 times per phase.)

"I am not altogether on anybody's side, because nobody is altogether on my side..."
–The Two Towers

Reduce the cost of the first Trap card you play each round by 1 (to a minimum of 0).

Response: After a Trap card you control is attached to an enemy, draw 1 card.

"See! Some of the Southrons have broken from the trap and are flying from the road." –The Two Towers

Response: After an enemy is added to the staging area, exhaust Anborn to give that enemy +5 engagement cost until the end of the round. Then, deal 1 damage to that enemy.

"Now I have him at arrow–point." –The Two Towers

Attach to a hero or Legolas.

Response: After attached character participates in an attack that destroys an enemy, exhaust Arod to place 1 progress token on any location.

"A smaller and lighter horse, but restive and fiery, was brought to Legolas. Arod was his name." –The Two Towers

Play only after the resolving enemy attacks step is complete.

Combat Action: Exhaust and discard a Rohan ally you control to choose and discard a non-unique enemy engaged with you.

"Helm is arisen and comes back to war. Helm for Théoden King!" –Riders of Rohan, The Two Towers

Response: After Mablung enters play, choose an enemy to get +5 engagement cost until the end of the round. Then, you may engage that enemy, or return it to the staging area.

"But still we will not sit idle and let Him do all as He would." –The Two Towers

Play only if you control at least 1 Ent character.

Action: Search the top 5 cards of your deck for any number of Ent cards and add them to your hand. Shuffle the other cards back into your deck.

"...it is a gathering of Ents – which does not often happen nowadays." –Treebeard, The Two Towers

Attach to Gandalf.

Gandalf gains ranged and sentinel.

Action: Exhaust Shadowfax to ready Gandalf.

"He is the chief of the Mearas, lords of horses, and not even Théoden, King of Rohan, has ever looked on a better." –Gandalf, The Two Towers

Play only if you control Aragorn.

Quest Action: Choose 3 heroes committed to the quest. Ready those heroes. Until the end of the round, each of the chosen heroes gets +1 , +1 , and +1 .

"We shall makes such a chase as shall be accounted a marvel among the Three Kindreds: Elves, Dwarves, and Men. Forth the Three Hunters!" –Aragorn, The Two Towers

Permanent.

Setup: Attach to a Noble hero.

Response: After attached hero quests successfully, exhaust Leader of Men to add 1 resource to attached hero's pool.

"Take this, dear lord!" said a clear voice. "It was ever at your service."
–The Two Towers

Permanent.

Setup: Attach to a hero.

Attached hero gets +1 +1 +1 and cannot have treachery card attachments.

"Beyond all hope you return to us in our need!"
–Aragorn, The Two Towers

Setup: Reduce your threat by 3.

Action: Raise your threat by 3 to ready Éowyn. She gets +9 Attack until the end of the phase. (Limit once per game for the group.)

"But no living man am I! You look upon a woman. Éowyn I am, Éomund's daughter."

-The Return of the King

Response: Exhaust a Weapon or Armor card attached to the defending character to cancel a shadow effect just triggered during combat.

"Do what you will; but I will hinder it, if I may."

-Éowyn, The Return of the King

Response: After a sentinel character is declared as a defender, it gets +2 Defense for this attack. If this attack deals no damage, ready the

...but alone in the porch upon the topmost step stood Beregond, clad in the black and silver of the Guard; and he held the door against them.

-The Return of the King

Attach to a Dúnedain hero.

If the attached hero is Aragorn, he gains a Tactics icon.

Response: After you optionally engage an enemy, exhaust Roheryn and attached hero to declare attached hero as an attacker (and resolve its attack

"Aragorn's own horse that they had brought from the North; Roheryn was his name."

-The Return of the King

While Elrohir is in play, Elladan gets +2 Attack.

Response: After you optionally engage an Orc enemy, ready Elladan.

...they rode often far afield with the Rangers of the North, forgetting never their mother's torment in the dens of the Orcs.

-The Return of the King

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

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

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

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

Action: Exhaust 1 hero you control to choose and ready a different hero.

"We will make such a chase as shall be accounted a marvel among the Three Kindreds: Elves, Dwarves, and Men."
–Aragorn, 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: Put 1 ally card into play from your hand. At the end of the phase, if that ally is still in play, return it to your hand.

There is a seed of courage hidden (often deeply, it is true) in the heart of the fattest and most timid hobbit, waiting for some final and desperate danger to make it grow.
–The Fellowship of the Ring

"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

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: Return 1 card from your discard pile to your hand.

The dwarves no more shall suffer wrong,
The dwarves of yore made mighty spells,
While hammers fell like ringing bells
In places deep, where dark things sleep,
In hollow halls beneath the fells.
–The Hobbit

Action: Choose a hero in any player's discard pile. Put that card into play, under its owner's control.

'Yes, fortune or fate have helped you,' said Gandalf, 'not to mention courage.'
–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: 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

Quest Action: Spend 1 resource to put Bofur into play from your hand, exhausted and commited to a quest. If you quest successfully this phase and Bofur is still in play, return him to your hand.

"Get up lazy–bones..."
–The Hobbit

Action: Put 1 ally card into play from your hand. At the end of the phase, if that ally is still in play, return it to your hand.

There is a seed of courage hidden (often deeply, it is true) in the heart of the fattest and most timid hobbit...
–The Fellowship of the Ring

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 upon him for the move."
–The Return of the King

Response: After a sentinel character is declared as a defender, it gets +2 for this attack. If this attack deals no damage, ready the defending character.

...but along in the porch upon the topmost step stood Beregond...
–The Return of the King