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

Response: After players quest unsuccessfully, choose a player. That player does not raise his threat.

Veteran of Nanduhirion enters play with 1 damage on it.

With cries of "Moria!" and "Dain, Dain!" the dwarves of the Iron Hills plunged in... –The Hobbit

Action: Choose a Dwarf. Until the end of the phase, that character gets +3 .

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: Each Dwarf character gets +1 until the end of the phase. (+2 instead if the active location is an Underground or Dark location.)

Action: Exhaust a Dwarf character to place 2 progress tokens on the active location. (4 progress tokens instead if it is an Underground or Mountain location.)

Attach to a Dwarf or Hobbit character.

Limit 1 Boots from Erebor per character.

Attached character gets +1 hit point.

The Hobbits of that quarter, the Eastfarthing, were rather large and heavy-legged, and they wore dwarf-boots in muddy weather.
—The Fellowship of the Ring

While Elladan is in play, Elrohir gets +2 .

Response: After Elrohir is declared as a defender, pay 1 resource from his resource pool to ready him.

"We will not turn back."
–The Return of the King

Action: Discard the top card of your deck. If the discarded card's printed cost is equal to or higher than the number of characters you control, draw 2 cards and deal 2 damage to any enemy.

Secrecy 3.

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: Choose a character you control. Until the end of the phase, that character gets +3 while attacking an enemy with a higher engagement cost than your threat.

Quest Action: Spend 1 resource to put Bofur into play from your hand, exhausted and committed to a quest. If you quest successfully this phase and Bofur is still in play, return him to your hand.

"Get up lazy-bones..." –The Hobbit

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

Secrecy 2.

Action: Raise your threat by 1 to look at the top card of the encounter deck. Then, reduce your threat by X, where X is the threat of that card.

Attach to a Hobbit hero.

Action: Discard Good Meal to lower the cost of the next event you play this round that matches attached hero's sphere by 2.

While Elrohir is in play, Elladan gets +2 .

Response: After Elladan is declared as an attacker, pay 1 resource from his resource pool to ready him.

"Yes, the Dead ride behind."
–The Return of the King

Action: Spend 1 resource to give control of Rider of the Mark to another player. (Limit once per round.)

Response: After Rider of the Mark changes control, discard a shadow card dealt to an enemy you are engaged with.

Attach to a hero.

Response: After Song of Eärendil enters play, draw 1 card.

Response: After another player raises his threat, raise your threat by 1 to reduce that player's threat by 1.

Action: Exhaust Bombur to choose a location. That location gets -1 until the end of the phase. (That location does not contribute its instead if it is an Underground location.)

Secrecy 2.

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

Sentinel.

Refresh Action: Reduce your threat to your starting threat level. (Limit once per game.)

"I am older than I look, I might prove useful."
–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 hero.

Attached hero gains a resource icon.

If attached hero is Aragorn, each character you control gets +1 .

"For the Sword that was Broken is the Sword of Elendil that broke beneath him when he fell."
–Aragorn, The Fellowship of the Ring

Sentinel.

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 Arwen Undómiel exhausts, choose a character. That character gains sentinel and gets +1 until the end of the round.

...in whom it was said that the likeness of Lúthien had come on earth again...for she was the Evenstar of her people.
–The Fellowship of the Ring

Action: If you control a unique Noldor character, give another character +1 until the end of the phase and lower your threat by 3.

"Believe rather that it is so ordered that we, who sit here, and none others, must now find counsel for the peril of the world."
–Elrond, The Fellowship of the Ring

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.

Secrecy 3.

Attach to a hero you control.

Attached hero collects 1 additional resource during the resource phase each round.

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

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.

Attach to a Dwarf or Hobbit character. Restricted.

Attached character gets +1 hit point and +1 .

"And all the arrows of all the hunters in the world would be in vain..."
–Gimli, The Fellowship of the Ring

Secrecy 3.

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

Attach to a Dwarf character.

Response: After you travel to a Mountain or Underground location, ready attached character and reduce your threat by 1

'This is more to my liking,' said the dwarf, stomping on the stones. 'Ever my heart rises as we draw near the mountains.'
–The Two Towers

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

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.

Ranged.

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

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.

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

You may spend resources from Elrond's resource pool to pay for , , and allies.

Response: After a character is healed by another card effect, heal 1 damage on it.

"But you do not stand alone."
–The Fellowship of the Ring

Action: Exhaust X Dwarf heroes to add X resources to a hero's resource pool and draw 1 card.

"You should see the stone–paved roads of many colours! And the halls and cavernous streets under the earth with arches carved like trees; and the terraces and towers upon the Mountain's sides! Then you would see that we have not been idle." –Glóin, The Fellowship of the Ring

Secrecy 4.

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 a hero.

Action: Discard Miruvor to (choose two):

• ready attached hero
• add 1 resource to attached hero's resource pool
• attached hero gets +1 until the end of the round
• put Miruvor on the top of your deck.

Action: Exhaust Master of the Forge to search the top 5 cards of your deck for any 1 attachment and add it to your hand. Shuffle the other cards back into your deck.

Secrecy 3.

Action: Look at the top 3 cards of the encounter deck. You may select 1 card and move it to the bottom of the encounter deck. Return any unselected cards to the top of the encounter deck, in any order.