






Watcher of the Bruinen does not exhaust to defend.
Forced: After Watcher of the Bruinen defends, either discard it from play or discard 1 card from your hand.



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



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







Action: Choose and discard 1 card from your hand to draw 1 card. (Limit once per round.)
Beside Glorfindel there were several other counsellors of Elrond's household, of whom Erestor was the chief...
–The Fellowship of the Ring



Response: After an enemy is added to the staging area, deal 1 damage to that enemy. Players ignore that enemy while making engagement checks this round.



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







Action: Exhaust Warden of Healing to heal 1 damage on up to 2 different characters. Then, you may pay 2 resources to ready Warden of Healing.
"But for long years we healers have only sought to patch the rents made by the men of swords." –Return of the King



Attach to a hero. Limit 1 per hero.
Response: After a Song card is played, exhaust Love of Tales to add 1 resource to attached hero's resource pool.
"I listened because I couldn't help myself, if you know what I mean. Lor bless me, sir, but I do love tales of that sort."
–Sam Gamgee, The Fellowship of the Ring







Forced: After Glorfindel exhausts to commit to a quest, raise your threat by 1.
Glorfindel was tall and straight; his hair was of shining gold, his face fair and young and fearless and full of joy; his eyes were bright and keen, and has voice like music; on his brow sat wisdom, and in his hand was strength.
–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.



Response: After a Dwarf deals X damage to an enemy during combat, deal an additional X damage to that enemy. (Limit once per phase.)
"Beside them Gimli stood with his stout legs apart, wielding his dwarf–axe." –The Fellowship of the Ring



Attach to a Noldor or Silvan hero.
Attached hero does not exhaust to commit to a quest.
"... those who have dwelt in the Blessed Realm live at once in both worlds, and against both the Seen and Unseen they have great power."
–Gandalf, The Fellowship of the Ring



Action: Draw 2 cards. Then, discard 1 card from your hand.
"These are Daeron's Runes, such as were used of old in Moria..."
–Gandalf, The Fellowship of the Ring



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



Action: Exhaust a character you control with ranged to immediately declare it as an attacker (and resolve its attack) against an enemy in the staging area. It gets +1 during this attack.
"We live now upon an island amid perils, and our hands are more often upon thr bowstring than upon the harp."
–Haldir, The Fellowship of the Ring



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.


Attach to Elrond. He gains a resource icon.
Action: Exhaust Elrond and Vilya to reveal the top card of your deck. You can immediately play or put into play the revealed card for no cost, if able. Otherwise, move the revealed card to the bottom of your deck.
...mightiest of the Three. –The Return of the King







Lower the cost to play Weapon and Armor attachments on Beregond by 2.
"It is over-late to send for aid when you are already besiged." –The Return of the King







Action: Exhaust Errand-rider to move 1 resource from the resource pool of a hero you control to another hero's resource pool.
For the people of the City used horses very little and they were seldom seen in their streets, save only those ridden by the errand–riders of their lord. –The Return of the King







Action: Exhaust Ithilien Tracker to lower the of the next enemy added to the staging area to 0 until the end of the phase.
Green gauntlets covered their hands, and their faces were hooded and masked with green, except for their eyes, which were very keen and bright. –The Two Towers



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 .










Action: Discard 2 resources from your hero's resource pool to add 3 resources to that hero's resource pool.
"Nay, my friends, I am the lawful master of the Stone, and I had both the right and the strength to use it..." –Aragorn, 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







Forced: After a character leaves play, discard Silvan Refugee from play.
"The Elves have their own labours and their own sorrows..."
–Gildor, The Fellowship of the Ring










If each hero you control has the Hobbit trait, Pippin gains:
Response: After an enemy engages you, raise your threat by 3 to return it to the staging area. Until the end of the round, that enemy cannot engage you.
"There must be someone with intelligence in the party." –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






Response: Cancel up to 2 points of damage just dealt to a Gondor character.
At last, less than a mile from the City, a more ordered mass of men came into view, marching not running, still holding together. –The Return of the King







Response: After Ithilien Archer attacks and damages an enemy, return that enemy to the staging area.





Play only if each of your heroes is a Hobbit.
Combat Action: Enemies engaged with you do not attack this round. You cannot declare attacks this round.
They possessed from the first the art of disappearing swiftly and silently, when large folk whom they do not wish to meet come blundering by...
–The Fellowship of the Ring










Pelargir Shipwright gets +1 for each hero you control with a printed
hero resource icon.
"It is forty leagues and two from Pelargir to the landings at the Harlond..."
–Aragorn, The Return of the King



Attach to a Ranger character. Restricted.
Action: Exhaust Ranger Bow and attached character to deal 1 damage to an enemy in the staging area.
Two had great bows, almost of their own height, and great quivers of long green–feathered arrows.
–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



Play Poisoned Stakes into the staging area unattached.
If unattached, attach Poisoned Stakes to the next eligble enemy that enters the staging area.
At the end of each round, deal 2 damage to attached enemy.


Action: Discard the top 2 cards of your deck. You may attach 1 attachment card discarded by this effect to an eligible Dwarf character in play.
Gimli the Dwarf alone wore openly a short shirt of steel–rings, for dwarves make light of burdens...
–The Fellowship of the Ring







Response: After Pelargir Ship Captain enters play, move 1 resource from the resource pool of a hero you control to another hero's resource pool.






Reduce the cost to play Scroll of Isildur by 1 for each hero you control with a printed resource icon.
Action: Discard Scroll of Isildur 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 Hidden Cache is discarded from your deck, add 2 resources to the resource pool of a hero you control.
Action: Spend 1 resource to draw 1 card.
...there was a good deal of food jumbled carlessly on shelves and on the ground, among an untidy litter of plunder...
–The Hobbit







Response: After you raise your threat from the Doomed keyword, ready Orthanc Guard.
"...the keepers of the gate were on the watch for me and told me that Saruman awaited me." –Gandalf, The Fellowship of the Ring