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Cannot have attachments.
Lower the cost to play Bill the Pony by 2 if you control Sam Gamgee.
Each Hobbit character gets +1 hit point.
"He gave me a look as plain as Mr. Pippin could speak it: if you don't let me go with you, Sam, I'll follow on my own" –Sam Gamgee, The Fellowship of the Ring
Attach to a Hobbit character. Limit 1 per character.
Response: After your threat is reduced by an event card effect, exhaust Hobbit Pipe to draw a card.
But even the Dúnedain of Gondor allow us this credit: Hobbits first put it into pipes. Not even the Wizards first thought of that before we did. –The Fellowship of the Ring
Attach to an Istari character. Limit 1 per character.
Action: Exhaust Wizard Pipe to exchange a card in your hand with the top card of your deck.
...there was a long silence, broken only by the soft puffs of Gandalf's pipe, as he blew white smoke–rings out of the window. –The Fellowship of the Ring
Attach to the Ring-bearer.
Each hero gets +1 .
Forced: After a character is destroyed, discard Fellowship of the Ring.
"The Company of the Ring shall be Nine: and the Nine Walkers shall be set against the Nine Riders that are evil."
–Elrond, The Fellowship of the Ring
Attach to a 
character. Restricted.
Limit 1 per character.
Response: After attached character is declared as a defender, deal 1 damage to the attacking enemy.
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 
.
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
Attach to a Dwarf character. Limit 1 per character.
Response: After a card is discarded from your deck, exhaust Dwarf Pipe to place that card on the bottom of your deck.
He held a small pipe with a wide flattened bowl...
–The Two Towers
Attach to a Harad character. Restricted.
Attached character gets +1 .
Response: After attached character is declared as an attacker, it gets +3 for this attack. After this attack resolves, discard Haradrim Spear.
Attach to a Dúnedain character. Limit 1 per character.
Action: Exhaust Dúnedain Pipe and place a card from your hand on the bottom of your deck to draw a card.
He had a tall tankard in front of him, and was smoking a long–stemmed pipe curiously carved.
–The Fellowship of the Ring
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
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Cannot have attachments.
Lower the cost to play Bill the Pony by 2 if you control Sam Gamgee.
Each Hobbit character gets +1 hit point.
"He gave me a look as plain as Mr. Pippin could speak it: if you don't let me go with you, Sam, I'll follow on my own" –Sam Gamgee, The Fellowship of the Ring
Attach to a Hobbit character. Limit 1 per character.
Response: After your threat is reduced by an event card effect, exhaust Hobbit Pipe to draw a card.
But even the Dúnedain of Gondor allow us this credit: Hobbits first put it into pipes. Not even the Wizards first thought of that before we did. –The Fellowship of the Ring
Attach to an Istari character. Limit 1 per character.
Action: Exhaust Wizard Pipe to exchange a card in your hand with the top card of your deck.
...there was a long silence, broken only by the soft puffs of Gandalf's pipe, as he blew white smoke–rings out of the window. –The Fellowship of the Ring
Attach to the Ring-bearer.
Each hero gets +1 .
Forced: After a character is destroyed, discard Fellowship of the Ring.
"The Company of the Ring shall be Nine: and the Nine Walkers shall be set against the Nine Riders that are evil."
–Elrond, The Fellowship of the Ring
Setup: Attach to a hero.
Attached hero gets +1 +1 +1 and cannot have treachery card attachments.
"Beyond all hope you return to us in our need!"
–Aragorn, The Two Towers
You cannot play non-unique allies or put non-unique allies into play.
Forced: When you control exactly 9 unique characters, flip this card over.
You cannot play allies or put allies into play.
Each character you control gets +1 +1 and +1
Forced: After a character you control leaves play, flip this card over.
Setup: Attach to a hero.
Attached hero gets +1 +1 +1 and cannot have treachery card attachments.
"Beyond all hope you return to us in our need!"
–Aragorn, The Two Towers
Your minimum deck size is 100 cards.
Your threat cannot be reduced by player card effects.
Action: Exhaust this card and raise your threat by 1 to look at the top 2 cards of your deck, draw 1, and place the other on the bottom of your deck.
Forced: When you would be eliminated by reaching your threat elimination level, flip this card over instead.
Your threat cannot be reduced by non-contract player card effects.
Heroes you control do not exhaust to quest.
Forced: When this card is flipped to this side, reduce your threat by 10. Search your deck for a card and either add it to your hand or play it, reducing its cost by 3. Shuffle your deck.
Thus came Aragorn... borne upon a wind from the Sea to the kingdom of Gondor...
–The Return of the King
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10
Response: After Gondorian Spearman is declared as a defender, deal 1 damage to the attacking enemy.
More than a thousand were there mustered. Their spears were like a springing wood. –The Two Towers
You must use resources from 3 different heroes' pools to pay for this card.
Action: Choose a player. That player's engaged enemies cannot attack that player this phase.
Without a word or cry, suddenly, the Riders halted. A thicket of spears were pointed towards the strangers...
–The Two Towers
Attach to a hero. Restricted.
Attached hero gets +4 Hit Points.
"Go to the armouries of the Citadel, and get you there the livery and gear of the Tower."
–Denethor, The Return of the King
Attach to a hero.
Action: Exhaust Unexpected Courage to ready attached hero.
"Here am I, naughty little fly;
you are fat and lazy.
You cannot trap me, though you try,
in your cobwebs crazy."
–Bilbo Baggins, The Hobbit
Quest Action: Choose a location in the staging area. Until the end of the phase, that location does not contribute its
...Beorn advised them to take this way; for at a place a few days' ride due north of the Carrock was the gate of a little–known pathway through Mirkwood... –The Hobbit
Action: Choose a player. Heal all damage on each hero controlled by that player.
"...and my house is open to you, if ever you come back this way again."
–Beorn, The Hobbit
Attach to a character.
Action: Exhaust Self Preservation to heal 2 points of damage from attached character.
...how much more of this would they have to endure, or could they endure?
–The Two Towers
Only one copy of Mendor's Support can be played each round.
Action: Mendor gets +2 , +2 , and +2 until the end of the round.
Attached hero collects 1 additional resource during each resource phase.
“Yet it is not our part to master all the tides of the world, but to do what is in us for the succour of those years wherein we are set...”
–Gandalf, The Return of the King
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8
Erebor Record Keeper cannot attack or defend.
Action: Exhaust Erebor Record Keeper and pay 1 
resource to choose and ready a Dwarf character.
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Response: After Ered Nimrais Prospector enters play, discard the top 3 cards of your deck. Then, choose and shuffle 1 card from your discard pile back into your deck.
Attach to a hero.
Travel Action: Discard Thrór’s Map to choose a location in the staging area. Make that location the active location. (If there is another active location, return it to the staging area.)
"This was made by Thror, your grandfather, Thorin." he said in answer to the dwarves' excited questions. "It is a plan of the Mountain." –Gandalf, The Hobbit
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
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10
Response: After Gondorian Spearman is declared as a defender, deal 1 damage to the attacking enemy.
More than a thousand were there mustered. Their spears were like a springing wood. –The Two Towers
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10
Play only if you control a unique character with the Ranger trait and another unique character with the Warrior trait.
Response: After you engage an enemy, that enemy cannot attack you until the end of the round.
Action: Until the end of the phase, all Rohan characters get +2
With astonishing speed and skill they checked their steeds, wheeled, and came charging round. –The Two Towers
Attach to a Rohan character. Restricted.
Attached character gets +1 (+2 instead if attacking an enemy in the staging area).
Right through the press drove Théoden Thengel's son, and his spear was shivered as he threw down thier chieftan. –The Return of the King
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
Attach to a Hobbit hero. Restricted.
Quest Action: If attached hero is not committed to the quest, exhaust Hobbit Pony and attached hero to commit attached hero to the quest.
He was riding a pony, and a scarf was swathed round his neck and over his chin to keep out the fog. —The Fellowship of the Ring
Attach to a 
hero. Restricted.
Response: After a card is discarded from your hand, exhaust Silver Harp to return that card to your hand.
Elrond wore a mantle of grey and had a star upon his forehead, and a silver harp was in his hand... –The Return of the King
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Cannot have restricted attachments.
Enters play exhausted.
Response: After Wellinghall Preserver readies, heal 1 damage from an Ent character.
Action: Reduce the cost of the next event that has a Valour trigger you play this phase by 2.
Valour Action: Search the top 10 cards of your deck for an event that has a Valour trigger and add it to your hand. Shuffle your deck.
Hope he rekindled, and in hope ended;
over death, over dread, over doom lifted
out of loss, out of life, unto long glory.
–The Return of the King
Attached character gets +1
Response: Add Iârion's Pendant to the victory display to cancel the 'when revealed' effects of a card that was just revaled from the encounter deck, or to cancel a shadow effect just triggered.
"That is just what the Rangers are: the last remnant in the North of the great people."
–Gandalf, The Lord of the Rings