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

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

Action: Discard Damrod from play to lower your threat by 1 for each enemy in the staging area.

Response: After a location worth no victory points leaves play as an explored location, return it to the top of the encounter deck.

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 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

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

While you control Outlands allies that belong to 4 different spheres, ready Forlong at the beginning of each phase.

"Forlong!" men shouted. "True heart, true friend!" –The Return of the King

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

Action: Ready each ally in play.

And so the companies came and were hailed and cheered and passed through the Gate, men of the Outlands marching to defend the City of Gondor in a dark hour... –The Return of the King

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

Denethor gets -1 for each damaged hero you control.

Discard Denethor if his is 0 or less.

"Denethor is of another sort, proud and subtile, a man of far greater lineage and power, though he is not called a king." –Gandalf, The Return of the King

Attach to a hero.

Reduce the cost to play Book of Eldacar by 1 for each hero you control with a printed resource icon.

Action: Discard Book of Eldacar to play any event card in your discard pile as if it were in your hand. Then, place that event on the bottom of your deck.

Response: After a Hobbit hero you control exhausts to defend an attack, choose another enemy engaged with you and reveal the attacking enemy's shadow card. If that shadow card has no shadow effect, resolve this enemy's attack against the chosen enemy. If that shadow card has a shadow effect, resolve this attack as normal.

Action: Return X Outlands allies from your discard pile to your hand.

Death in the morning and at day's ending
lords took and lowly. Long now they sleep
under grass in Gondor by the Great River.
–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

Action: Discard Caldara to put 1 ally from your discard pile into play for each other hero you control with a printed resource icon. (Limit once per game.)

...there is no purpose higher in the world as it now stands than the good of Gondor...
–Denethor, The Return of the King

Attach to a hero. Reduce the cost to play Tome of Atanatar by 1 for each hero you control with a printed resource icon.

Action: Discard Tome of Atanatar to play any event event card in your discard pile as if it were in your hand. Then, place that event on the bottom of your deck.

If there is at least 1 Rohan hero in play, lower the cost to play Guthlaf by 1.

If there is at least 1 Gondor hero in play, Guthlaf gains sentinel.

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: 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

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 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

Doomed 4.

Action: Add 1 resource to each hero's resource pool.

"...in the midst of that valley is a tower of stone called Orthanc. It was not made by Saruman, but by the Men of Númenor long ago: and it is very tall and has many secrets..." –Gandalf, The Fellowship of the Ring

Doomed 2.

Action: Each player draws 2 cards.

"His knowledge is deep, but his pride has grown with it..." –Gandalf, The Fellowship of the Ring

Doomed 2.

Action: Each player may choose and discard a Condition attachment from play.

"But Saruman has long studied the arts of the Enemy himself, and thus we have often been able to forestall him." –Gandalf, The Fellowship of the Ring

Action: Return a Silvan ally you control to your hand to search the top 5 cards of your deck for a Silvan ally. Put that ally into play and shuffle the other cards back into your deck. You can only play 1 copy of The Tree People each phase.

No folk could they see, nor hear any feet upon the paths; but there were many voices, about them, and in the air above. –The Fellowship of the Ring

Action: Choose a player. That player may choose 1 card from his hand and add it to another player's hand. At the end of the round, if the chosen card is in that player's hand or in play, shuffle it into its owner's deck.

"But we have heard rumours of your coming, for the messengers of Elrond passed by Lórien on the way home up the Dimrill Stair. –Haldir, The Fellowship of the Ring

Action: Choose a hero. That hero gets +2 until the end of the phase. Then, if your threat is 20 or less and this is the first time you played a copy of Courage Awakened this round, return this card to your hand instead of discarding it.

But the courage that had been awakened in him was now too strong: he could not leave his friends so easily. –The Fellowship of the Ring

Response: After your threat is raised by an encounter card effect, reduce your threat by an equal amount.

Suddenly he was aware of himself again. Frodo, neither the Voice nor the Eye; free to choose, and with one remaining instant in which to do so. –The Fellowship of the Ring

Response: After you engage an enemy, add 1 resource to Mablung's resource pool. (Limit once per phase.)

But the Captains of the West were well warned by their scouts, skilled men from Henneth Annûn led by Mablung...
–The Return of the King

Action: Take control of the first player token and draw 1 card.

"Come! I will lead you now!"
–Aragorn, The Fellowship of the Ring

Response: When an encounter card is revealed but before resolving any of that card's keywords or "when revealed" effects, choose a character committed to the quest. Ready that character and remove it from the quest.

"Don't be hasty, that is my motto." –Treebeard, The Two Towers

Cannot have restricted attachments. Treebeard enters play exhausted and collects 1 resource each resource phase. These resources can be used to pay for Ent cards played from your hand.

Action: Pay 2 resources from Treebeard's pool to ready an Ent character.

Response: After you engage an enemy, exhaust a Scout or Ranger character to place X progress tokens on a location. X is the engaged enemy's printed .

"At last!" said Aragorn. "Here are the tracks that we seek!" –The Two Towers

Response: After an Ent character takes any amount of damage, ready it. That character gets +3 until the end of the phase.

"They roared and boomed and trumpeted, until stones began to crack and fall at the mere noise of them." –Merry, The Two Towers

Discard 2 cards from your hand to put Elven Jeweler into play from your hand, under your control.

"...to the Elven–smiths they were but trifles..." –Gandalf, The Fellowship of the Ring

Limit 3 copies of Leave No Trace in the victory display.

Response: After a non-unique location is explored, add Leave No Trace to the victory display to add that location to the victory display.

Reduce the cost to play Keen as Lances by 1 for each card worth no victory points in the victory display.

Action: Add Keen as Lances to the victory display. Then, choose one: add 2 resources to a hero's resource pool, draw 3 cards, or reduce your threat by 4.

Limit 3 copies of None Return in the victory display.

Response: After a non-unique enemy is destroyed, add None Return to the victory display to add that enemy to the victory display.

"None of the Orcs will ever return out of Lórien."
–Haldir, The Fellowship of the Ring

Draw 3 additional cards at the beginning of the resource phase.

At the end of the round, discard all cards in your hand.

"That is the path of despair. Of folly, I would say, if the long wisdom of Elrond did not forbid me."
–The Fellowship of the Ring

Action: All enemies get -1 until the end of the phase.

Valour Action: Choose a player. Each enemy engaged with that player gets -3 until the end of the phase.

Loud the challenge rang and bellowed, like the shout of many throats under the cavernous roof.
–The Fellowship of the Ring

Response: After 1 or more cards are discarded from your hand, draw 1 card. Limit once per round.

"But have they the strength, have we here the strength to withstand the Enemy, the coming of Sauron at the last, when all else is overthrown?"
–The Fellowship of the Ring

Cannot have restricted attachments.

Enters play exhausted.

Response: After Beechbone is declared as an attacker, deal 1 damage to him to deal X damage to the defending enemy. X is the amount of damage on Beechbone.

Action: Choose and ready a sentinel character.

Valour Action: Ready all sentinel characters.

Aragorn and Boromir did not heed the command, but still held their ground, side by side, behind Gandalf at the far end of the bridge.
–The Fellowship of the Ring

Lords of the Eldar can only be played from your discard pile.

Action: Place Lords of the Eldar on the bottom of your deck from your discard pile. Then, until the end of the round all Noldor characters get +1 , +1 , and +1 .