Attach to a Dale or Esgaroth hero.

Planning Action: Exhaust King of Dale to reduce the cost of the next Dale ally you play this phase by 1 for each different player attachment on attached hero. That ally does not require a resource match.

Then Bard II, Brand's son, became King of Dale..
–The Return of the King

Response: After a character is declared as an attacker or defender against an enemy with an attachment, that character gets +3 and +3 until the end of this attack.

"Dwarf–mail may be good, but they will soon be hard put to it."
–Bard the Bowman, The Hobbit

Planning Action: Choose a ready player attachment on a character you control. Return that attachment to its owner's hand to reduce the cost of the next attachment played this phase by X, where X is the chosen attachment's cost.

Guardian of Esgaroth gets +1 +1 +1 and +1 hit point for each different player card attachment it has. (Limit +3 to each.)

The men of the lake–town Esgaroth were mostly indoors, for the breeze was from the black East and chill, but a few were walking on the quays, and watching...
–The Hobbit

Response: At the beginning of the quest phase, search the top 5 cards of the encounter deck for a location and make it the active location, returning any previous active location to the staging area. Then, reveal 1 less encounter card this phase (to a minimum of 0). Shuffle the encounter deck.

Combat Action: Choose a Beorning ally with printed cost 3 or more in your hand or discard pile. Discard Beorning Skin-changer to put that ally into play.

"...sometimes he is a huge black bear, sometimes he is a great strong black–haired man with huge arms and a great beard."
–Gandalf, The Hobbit

Response: After a Beorning character is declared as an attacker or defender against an enemy, that enemy gets -2 and -2 until the end of the phase.

Swiftly he returned and his wrath was redoubled, so that nothing could withstand him, and no weapon seemed to bite upon him. –The Hobbit

Response: After you play Wiglaf, play an Item attachment on him from your hand for no cost.

Action: Exhaust an attachment on Wiglaf to ready him. (Limit once per phase.)

Action: Return an Eagle ally to your hand to shuffle a set-aside Eagle of the North into the encounter deck. Then, remove Flight of the Eagles from the game.

Behind them in long swift lines came all their vassals from the northern mountains, speeding on a gathering wind.
–The Return of the King

Cannot have attachments.

Planning Action: Attach Wild Stallion to an ally you control. (Counts as a Mount attachment with the text: "Restricted. Limit 1 per ally. Attached ally gets +1 +1 +1 and +1 hit point.")

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

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.

Combat Action: Play a Silvan ally from your hand. You do not need a resource match for this ally. (Limit once per round.)

"It is a crime to wander in my realm without leave."
–The Hobbit

Cannot have attachments.

Action: Ready Giant Bear. At the end of the phase in which you trigger this effect, shuffle Giant Bear into your deck. (Limit once per phase.)

"As a bear he ranged far and wide"
–Gandalf, The Hobbit

Response: Return a Silvan ally you control to your hand to cancel a shadow effect just triggered during combat.

"You would die before your stroke fell."
–Legolas, The Two Towers

While there is at least 1 side quest in the victory display, ready Thalion at the beginning of the combat phase.

While there are at least 3 side quests in the victory display, Thalion loses the ally card type, gains the hero card type and the resource icons of each sphere on a side quest in the victory display.

While Dáin Ironfoot is defending, he gains,"Action: Discard the top card of your deck to give Dáin Ironfoot +1 for this attack. (Limit 3 times per phase.)"

"The time of my thought is my own to spend."
–The Fellowship of the Ring

Action: Discard the top 3 cards from your deck to ready Soldier of Erebor. (Limit once per round.)

Response: After a character you control attacks and destroys an enemy, exhaust a Weapon attached to that character to ready that character and give it +2 for its next attack this phase.

The sword is sharp, the spear is long,
The arrow swift, the Gate is strong.
–The Hobbit

Reduce the cost to play Item attachments on Descendant of Girion by 1.

–Glóin, The Fellowship of the Ring

Response: After Bilbo Baggins commits to the quest, choose an enemy in the staging area. Until the end of the phase, Bilbo Baggins gets +X where X is that enemy's If the players quest successfully, deal 1 damage to that enemy (2 damage instead if it is guarding a card).

Action: Count the number of cards in your hand and shuffle your hand into your deck. Then, draw an equal number of cards. Draw 1 additional card if you control a unique Hobbit character.

Ho! Ho! Ho! to the bottle I go
To heal my heart and drown my woe.
–The Fellowship of the Ring

You may use resources from Radagast's pool to pay for Creature allies of any sphere.

Response: After you play a Creature card, Radagast does not exhaust to quest this round.

"..he has much lore of herbs and beasts, and birds are especially his friends."
–Gandalf, The Fellowship of the Ring

Action: Search your deck for a Guarded attachment and put it into play. Shuffle your deck.

His crown shall be upholden,
His harp shall be restrung,
His halls shall echo golden
To songs of yore re–sung
–The Hobbit

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

Bywater Shirriff gets +1 +1 and +1 while you are engaged with an enemy with engagement cost higher than your threat.

The Shirriffs was the name that the Hobbits gave to their police, or the nearest equivalent that they possessed.
–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

Response: After Frodo Baggins commits to the quest, spend 1 resource from his resource pool to ready another unique character committed to the quest. If you quest successfully this phase, reduce your threat by 1.

"Keep your tempers and hold your hands to the last possible moment!"
–The Return of the King

Pippin gets +2 while attacking an enemy with an engagement cost higher than your threat.

Response: After you engage an enemy with an engagement cost higher than your threat, ready Pippin.

"Down on your knees in the road and ask pardon, or I will set this troll's bane in you!"
–The Return of the King

Ranged.

Response: After Derufin participates in an attack that destroys an enemy engaged with a player, discard Derufin to reduce the engaged player's threat by X, where X is the destroyed enemy's printed .

Attach to the active location. Limit 1 per location.

Attached location gets +2 quest points.

Response: After attached location is explored, discard cards from the encounter deck until a location is discarded. Add that location to the staging area to choose an non-unique enemy in the staging area and shuffle it into the encounter deck.

Action: Exhaust The One Ring and raise your threat by 1 to ready the hero with The One Ring Attached. That hero gets +1 , +1 , and +1 until the end of the phase.

“And behold! in our need chance brings to light the Ring of Power.”
–Boromir, The Fellowship of the Ring

Response: After Soldier of Gondor enters play, seach the top 5 cards of your deck for a Gondor ally and add it to your hand (any number of Gondor allies instead if your threat is 40 or higher). Shuffle your deck.

While your threat is less than 40, reduce the cost to play Pillars of the Kings by 4.

Action: Set your threat to 40. If this effect raised your threat, draw a card (draw 4 cards instead if it raised your threat by 10 or more).

"Behold the Argonath, the Pillars of the Kings!"
–Aragorn, The Fellowship of the Ring

Response: After Cautious Halfling enters play, look at the top card of the encounter deck. If that card is not an enemy, draw a card.

"I thought I had been both careful and clever."
–Frodo, The Fellowship of the Ring

Play only after staging step.

Quest Action: You may declare and resolve an attack against each non-unique enemy in the staging area as if it were engaged with you.

Panic came upon the Goblins; and even as they turned to meet this new attack, the elves charged again with renewed numbers.
–The Hobbit

If Éomer is in play, Lothíriel gains the Rohan trait.

Response: After Lothíriel commits to a quest, choose an ally in your hand. If that ally shares a Trait with her, put that ally into play exhausted and committed to the quest. At the end of the phase, if that ally is still in play, shuffle it into your deck.

Response: After you play Woodland Sentry from your hand, choose an enemy or location in play. If there is a copy of that card in the victory display, discard the chosen card.

In the Wide World the Wood–elves lingered in the twilight of our Sun and Moon but loved best the stars...
–The Hobbit

Response: After Knight of Belfalas enters play, return a Gondor ally from your discard pile to your hand.

The mounted knights returned, and at their rear the banner of Dol Amroth...
–The Return of the King

Response: After Nori participates in an attack that destroys an enemy, put the top card of your discard pile on the bottom of your deck.

"You've left the burglar behind again!"
–Nori, The Hobbit

Action: Pay 1 resource from Gildor Inglorion's resource pool to choose a player to draw 1 card (Limit once per round.)

"Gildor Inglorion of the House of Finrod. We are Exiles, and most of our kindred have long ago departed..."
–The Fellowship of the Ring

Response: After Wandering Exile commits to a quest, discard a card from your hand to ready Wandering Exile.

"The Elves have their own labours and their own sorrows...
–Gildor, The Fellowship of the Ring

Guarded (location). Restricted.

Attach to a hero. Attached hero gets +2

You draw 1 additional card during the resource phase.

Looking up he saw before him a tall white tower, standing alone on a high ridge. A great desire came over him to climb the tower and see the Sea.
–The Fellowship of the Ring

You cannot include more than 1 copy of a card, by title, in your deck.

Response: After you play an event from your hand, choose one: reduce your threat by 1, draw 1 card, or add 1 resource to your hero's resource pool. You can only choose each option once per round.

"I must go to this lords' council and learn what I can."
–Gandalf, The Return of the King

Ranged. Sentinel.

Cannot have restricted attachments. Gwaihir does not ready during the refresh phase.

Response: After an Eagle ally enters or leaves play, ready Gwaihir. (Limit once per phase.)

Ranged.

Hobbit Archer gets +1 while attacking an enemy with a higher engagement cost than your threat.

"If you lay a finger on this farmer, or on anyone else, you will be shot at once."
–Merry, The Return of the King

Attach to a hero. Limit 1 per hero.

Action: Discard 1 card from your hand to heal 1 damage from attached hero. Any player may trigger this effect.

...behind him stood Galadriel, tall and white: a circlet of golden flowers was in her hair, and in her hand she held a hard, and she sang.
–The Fellowship of the Ring

Response: After you attack and destroy an enemy, shuffle the encounter discard pile into the encounter deck and discard cards from the top until an enemy is discarded. Add that enemy to the staging area to discard a non-unique location with equal to or less that that enemy's

Attach to a character.

Attached character gets +1 hit point.

Response: After you play Spare Pipe search the top 5 cards of your deck for an event and add it to your hand. Shuffle your deck.

"I have carried it a long way, though I don't know why."
–Pippin, The Two Towers