Response: After Legolas participates in an attack that destroys an enemy, draw 1 card.
"He stands not alone," said Legolas, bending his bow and fitting an arrow with hands that moved quicker than sight.
–The Two Towers
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
Response: After Galadhrim Minstrel enters play, search the top 5 cards of your deck for an event card and add it to your hand. Shuffle the other cards back into your deck.
...the language was of Elven–song and spoke of things little now in Middle–earth.
–The Fellowship of the Ring
Attach to a Dwarf character. Restricted.
Attached hero gains +1
Response: After attached character attacks, deal 1 damage to the defending character.
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.
Play during the Quest phase, before characters are commited to the Quest.
Action: Reveal 1 less card from the encounter deck this phase. (To a minimum of 1.)
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: Search the top 5 cards of your deck for any number of Eagle cards and add them to your hand. Shuffle the other cards back into your deck.
"The Eagles! The Eagles!" –Bilbo Baggins, The Hobbit
Action: Search the top 10 cards of your deck for any 1 Rohan card and add it to your hand. Then, shuffle the other cards back into your deck.
"More speed we cannot make, if the strength of Rohan is to be gathered." –Éomer, The Return of the King
Response: After you play Rivendell Minstrel from your hand, search your deck for 1 Song card and add it to your hand. Shuffle your deck.
As Elrond entered and went towards the seat prepared for him, Elvish minstrels began to make sweet music. –The Fellowship of the Ring
Response: After a location is revealed from the encounter deck, immediately travel to that location without resolving its Travel effect. If another location is currently active, return it to the staging area.
"My cuts, short or long, don't go wrong." –Strider, The Fellowship of the Ring
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
Sentinel. Landroval cannot have restricted attachments.
Response: After a hero card is destroyed, return Landroval to his owner's hand to put that hero back into play, with 1 damage token on it. (Limit once per game.)
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
Action: Exhaust Gildor Inglorion to look at the top 3 cards of your deck. Switch one of those cards with a card from your hand. Then, return the 3 cards to the top of your deck, in any order.
"Go not to the Elves for counsel, for they will say both no and yes." –Frodo Baggins, The Fellowship of the Ring
Play during the Quest phase, before characters are committed to the Quest.
Action: Reveal 1 less card from the encounter deck this phase. (To a minimum of 1.)
"The wide world is all about you: you can fence yourselves in, but you cannot for ever fence it out."
–Gildor, The Fellowship of the Ring
Ranged.Vassal of the Windlord cannot have restricted attachments.
Forced: After an attack in which Vassal of the Windlord attacked resolves, discard Vassal of the Windlord from play.
Attach to a Hobbit character.
Action: Exhaust Fast Hitch to ready attached character.
'And I put as fast a hitch over the stump as any one could have done, in the Shire or out of it.' –Sam, The Two Towers
While Dáin Ironfoot is ready, Dwarf characters get +1 and +1 .
"You have not heard of Dain and the dwarves of the Iron Hills?" –Bilbo Baggins, The Hobbit
Eagles of the Misty Mountains cannot have restricted attachments. Eagles of the Misty Mountains gets +1 and +1 for each facedown attachment it has.
Response: After another Eagle character leaves play, you may attach that card facedown to Eagles of the Misty Mountains.
Action: Move the top card of the encounter discard pile to the top of the encounter deck.
The wizard's face remained grave and attentive, and only a flicker in his deep eyes showed that he was startled and indeed alarmed. 'It has been called that before,' he said, 'but not by you.' –The Fellowship of the Ring
Action: Choose a Dwarf hero. That hero gets +2 +2 and +2 until the end of the round.
A king he was on carven throne
In many–pillared halls of stone
With golden roof and silver floor,
And runes of power upon the door.
–The Fellowship of the Ring
Attach to a Dwarf character. Restricted.
Attached character gets +1
Response: After attached character attacks, deal 1 damage to the defending enemy.
"We make good armour and keen swords, but we cannot again make mail or blade to match those that were made before the dragon came." –Gloin, The Fellowship of the Ring
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: Reveal the top 5 cards of your deck and put 1 revealed ally into play, if able. Shuffle all other revealed cards back into your deck.
Action: Exhaust Ravenhill Scout to move up to 2 progress tokens from 1 location to another location.
"They made their first camp on the western side of the great southern spur, which ended in a height called Ravenhill." –The Hobbit
Attach to a Noldor or Silvan character. Restricted.
When attached character attacks an enemy, that enemy gets -2 until the end of the phase.
Action: Search the top 5 cards of the encounter deck for any 1 non-objective card worth no victory points and add it to your victory display. Shuffle the encounter deck. Add Out of the Wild to the victory display.
Response: After a Dwarf character leaves play, shuffle the encounter discard pile back into the encounter deck.
'He is dead then,', said Frodo. 'I feared it was so.'
–The Fellowship of the Ring
Response: After a character leaves play, add its to another character's until the end of the round.
"We have not the time or the tools to bury our comrade fitly, or to raise a mound up over him. A cairn we might build."
–Legolas, The Two Towers
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 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
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
Erebor Battle Master gets +1 for each other Dwarf ally you control. (Limit +4 .)
Action: Enemies engaged with you cannot attack you this phase.
Action: Exhaust an Istari character to search your deck for 1 card and add it to your hand. Shuffle your deck.
"Picking up a faggot he held it aloft for a moment, and then with a word of command, naur an edraith ammen! he thrust the end of his staff into the midst of it. At once a great spout of green and blue flame sprang out, and the wood flared and sputtered." –The Fellowship of the Ring
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.
Trollshaw Scout does not exhaust to attack.
Forced: After Trollshaw Scout attacks, either discard it from play or discard 1 card from your hand.
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 Noldor or Silvan hero.
Action: Exhaust Asfaloth to place 1 progress token on any location. (2 tokens instead if attached hero is Glorfindel.)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