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Response: After Celduin Traveler enters play, look at the top card of the encounter deck. If it is a location, you may discard it.
In two days going they rowed right up the Long Lake and passed out into the River Running... –The Hobbit
Attach to a non-objective unique ally in play.
The first player gains control of attached ally.
Damage from undefended attacks against you may be assigned to attached ally.
"...if by life or death I can save you, I will."
–Aragorn, The Fellowship of the Ring
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Galadriel cannot quest, attack, or defend. Allies you control do not exhaust to commit to the quest during the round they enter play.
Action: Exhaust Galadriel to choose a player. That player reduces his threat by 1 and draws 1 card. (Limit once per round.)
Attach to Galadriel.
Action: Exhaust Mirror of Galadriel to search the top 10 cards of your deck for a card and add it to your hand. Shuffle the rest back into your deck. Then, discard a random card from your hand.
"What you will see, if you leave the Mirror free to work, I cannot tell. For it shows things that were, things that are, things that yet may be."
–Galadriel, The Fellowship of the Ring
Attach to a hero with sentinel.
Response: After attached hero defends against an attack and takes no damage while defending that attack, exhaust The Dayâs Rising to add 1 resource to the attached hero's resource pool.
Out of doubt, out of dark to the day's rising
I came singing in the sun, sword unsheathing.
–Ăomer, The Return of the King
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Cannot have restricted attachments. Enters play exhausted.
Booming Ent gets +1 for each damaged Ent character you control.
"...a man that hacks once at an Ent never gets a chance of a second blow." –Merry, The Two Towers
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
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Each enemy engaged with you gets -1 .
Response: After Aragorn participates in an attack that destroys an enemy, choose an enemy not engaged with you and engage that enemy.
"I serve no man," said Aragorn; "but the servants of Sauron I pursue into whatever land they may go." –The Two Towers
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Response: After Weather Hills Watchman enters play, search the top 5 cards of your deck for a Signal card and add it to your hand. Shuffle the other cards back into your deck.
"Rangers use runes, and they come here sometimes." –Aragorn, The Fellowship of the Ring
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Forced: After DĂșnedain Hunter enters play, search the top 5 cards of the encounter deck for a non-unique enemy and put it into play engaged with you. If no enemy enters play by this effect, discard DĂșnedain Hunter. Shuffle the encounter deck.
Play only if you control a DĂșnedain hero.
Planning Action: Shuffle 1 of your set aside Ranger of the North allies with the encounter keyword into the encounter deck. Then, remove Ranger Summons from the game.
"We rode as swiftly as we might when your summons came." –Halbarad, The Return of the King
Play only before the resolving enemy attacks step.
Combat Action: Choose an enemy not engaged with you. Engage that enemy. Then, discard a shadow card from that enemy, if able.
"Many evil things there are that your strong walls and bright swords do not stay." –Aragorn, The Fellowship of the Ring
Aragorn halted and examined the tracks closely. –The Tower Towers
Limit 1 per deck.
Response: After this stage is defeated, each player may search his deck for 1 card and add it to his hand. Each player shuffles his deck.
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Response: After an enemy is revealed from the top of the encounter deck, exhaust Merry to reduce your threat by that enemy's 
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"We have come a long way with you and been through some stiff times. We want to go on."
–The Fellowship of the Ring
Strider made them take cover in a thicket at the side of the Road, while he went forward to explore. –The Fellowship of the Ring
Limit 1 per deck.
Response: When this stage is defeated, the first player searches the top X cards of the encounter deck for 1 non-objective card worth no victory points and adds it to the victory display. Put the remaining cards back in any order. X is the number of players in the game plus 4.
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If the active location shares a Trait with a location in the victory display, Rossiel gets +2 .
If the attacking enemy shares a Trait with an enemy in the victory display, Rossiel gets +2 .
"Did you not say that you wished to see Elf-magic?"
–Galadriel, The Fellowship of the Ring
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Veteran of Osgiliath gets +1 , +1 , and +1 while your threat is 40 or higher.
"So do we ever watch the shores nigh Osgiliath, which our enemies now partly hold, and issue from it to harry our lands."
–Faramir, The Two Towers
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Cannot have restricted attachments. Enters play exhausted.
While Derndingle Warrior is defending, it gains:
Action: Deal 1 damage to Derndingle Warrior to give it +3
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
Action: Exhaust a Ranger or Scout character to discard a non-unique active location. Then, search the encounter deck and discard pile for a non-unique location and make it the active location. Shuffle the encounter deck.
"I have crossed many mountains and many rivers, and trodden many plains, even into the far countries of Rhûn and Harad where the stars are strange..."
–Aragorn, The Fellowship of the Ring
Action: Search your deck for a side quest and add it to your hand. Shuffle your deck.
"I called for the help of the DĂșnedain, and their watch was doubled..."
–Gandalf, The Fellowship of the Ring
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Action: Discard 2 cards from the top of your deck to give Longbeard Sentry sentinel and +1 until the end of the phase. (Limit once per phase.)
"...many of them have had experience in the dreadful dwarf and goblin wars, of which you have no doubt heard."
–Bilbo Baggins, The Hobbit
We must do something to delay the enemy first.
–Aragorn, The Fellowship of the Ring
Limit 1 per deck.
Battle. (Characters use their instead of when questing here.)
Response: When this stage is defeated, each player may choose and discard a non-unique enemy engaged with him.
"Often the Rohirrim have aided us, but now the Lord Denethor asks for all your strength and all your speed..."
–Hirgon, The Return of the King
Limit 1 per deck.
Response: When this stage is defeated, each player may search the top 10 cards of his deck for an ally and put it into play under his control. Each player who did shuffles his deck.
Attach to a Noldor or Silvan hero. Restricted.
Action: Discard a card from your hand to give attached hero +1 until the end of the phase. Limit 3 times per phase.
Their spears and swords shone in the gloom with a gleam of chill flame, so deadly was the wrath of the hands that held them.
–The Hobbit
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
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Cannot attack or defend.
Response: After Galadhrim Weaver enters play, shuffle the top card of your discard pile into your deck.
"You are indeed high in the favour of the Lady! For she herself and her maidens wove this..." –LĂłrien Elf, The Fellowship of the Ring
Response: After an encounter card is revealed from the encounter deck, cancel its effects and discard it if there is a card with the same title in the victory display.
"...I perceive the Dark Lord and know his mind, or all of his mind that concerns the Elves. And he gropes ever to see me and my thought. But still the door is closed!"
–Galadriel, The Fellowship of the Ring
Planning Action: Until the end of the round, players do not raise their threat from questing unsuccessfully.
Valour Planning Action: Raise each player's threat by 2 to skip the quest phase this round.
"Dooms hangs still on a thread. Yet hope there is still, if we can stand but unconquered for a little while."
–Gandalf, The Two Towers
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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.
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 .
Attach to a DĂșnedain or Gondor hero. Restricted.
Attached hero gets +1 .
Response: After attached hero participates in an attack that destroys an enemy with 5 or more printed hit points, exhaust Sword of NĂșmenor to add 1 resource to attached hero's resource pool.
...the flowing characters of NĂșmenor glinted like fire upon the blade.
–The Fellowship of the Ring
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Fornost Bowman gets +1 for each enemy engaged with you.
To the last battle at Fornost with the Witch–lord of Angmar they sent some bowmen to the aid of the king...
–The Fellowship of the Ring
Action: Choose a hero. Until the end of the phase, the chosen hero does not exhaust to attack or defend.
Valour Action: Choose a player. Until the end of the phase, each of that player's heroes do not exhaust to attack or defend.
These three were unscathed, for such was their fortune and the skill and might of their arms...
–The Return of the King
Action: Exhaust a Noldor character to ready a DĂșnedain character, or vice-versa. Until the end of the phase, add the exhausted character's printed to the other character's and .
Long was the way that fate them bore,
O'er stony mountains cold and grey,
Through halls of iron and darkling door,
And woods of nightshade morrowless.
–The Fellowship of the Ring
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Response: After drawing your setup hand, instead of taking a mulligan, you may discard any number of cards from your hand. Then, draw that many cards.
Action: If you have no cards in your hand, draw 6 cards. (Limit once per game.)
"What power still remains lies with us..."
–The Fellowship of the Ring
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Response: After an enemy is declared as an attacker against you, declare an exhausted character you control as the defender. Resolve that effect again for each copy of Anchor Watch currently in your discard pile (all chosen characters are defending against this attack).
Attach to a 
or a Scout character.
Response: At the beginning of the travel phase, exhaust Marinerâs Compass and attached character to search the top 5 cards of the encounter deck for a location. Switch that location with a location in the staging area. Shuffle the encounter deck.
Attach to CĂrdan the Shipwright or Gandalf.
Attached character gains a resource icon.
Action: Exhaust Narya and attached character to choose and ready up to 2 allies. Each of those allies gets +1 and +1 until the end of the phase.
"For this is the Ring of Fire, and with it you may rekindle hearts in a world that grows chill."
–CĂrdan, The Return of the King
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Response: After Azain Silverbeard participates in an attack that destroys an enemy, spend 1 
resource to deal 2 damage to another enemy that shares a Trait with the destroyed enemy. Any player may trigger this response.
Response: After a Warrior character is destroyed while defending against an enemy attack, deal damage to the attacking enemy equal to that character's printed .
In a grave along under the shadow of the Hornburg lay HĂĄma, captain of the King's guard. He fell before the Gate.
–The Two Towers
Response: When a shadow card increases an enemy's by any amount, increase the defending character's by 3 for that attack. Then, the players as a group may spend 2 resources to ready the defending character and give it +3 for its next attack this phase.
...the tides of fate had turned against them and their doom was at hand.
–The Return of the King
Action: Choose a player. That player searches the top 5 cards of his deck for a card, adds it to his hand, and shuffles his deck. Then, the players as a group may spend 3 resources to have that player search his deck for another card, add it to his hand, and shuffle his deck.