Response: Cancel a shadow effect just triggered during combat.

'The hasty stroke goes oft astray,' said Aragorn. 'We must press our Enemy, and no longer wait on him for the next move.'
–The Return of the King

Action: Choose a player. Shuffle that player's discard pile back into his deck. Remove Will of the West from the game.

"If Gondor has such men still in these days of fading, great must have been its glory in the days of its rising."
–Legolas, The Return of the King

Response: Cancel the “when revealed” effects of a card that was just revealed from the encounter deck.

"There is naught that you can do, other than to resist, with hope or without it"
–Elrond, The Fellowship of the Ring

Response: After Miner of the Iron Hills enters play, choose and discard 1 Condition attachment from play.

...while the four dwarves sat around the table, and talked about mines and gold and troubles with goblins...
–The Hobbit

Action: Choose a character. Heal all damage from that character.

"...understanding, making and healing...These things the Elves of Middle–earth have in some measure gained, though with sorrow."
–Elrond, The Fellowship of the Ring

Action: Choose a player. That player draws 3 cards.

"That is the fairest of all the dwellings of my people. There are no trees like the tress of that land."
–Legolas, The Fellowship of the Ring

Quest Action: Choose an enemy in the staging area. Until the end of the phase, that enemy does not contribute its

"Radagast is, of course, a worthy Wizard, a master of shapes and changes of hue; and he has much lore of herbs and beasts, and birds are especially his friends." –Gandalf, The Fellowship of the Ring

Action: Look at the top X cards of any player's deck, add 1 of those cards to its owner's hand, and return the rest to the top of the deck in any order.

"Less welcome did the Lord Denethor show me then than of old, and grudgingly he permitted me to search among his hoarded scrolls and books."
–Gandalf, The Fellowship of the Ring

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

Response: After you play Andrath Guardsman from your hand, choose a non-unique enemy engaged with you. That enemy cannot attack you this round.

They forgot or ignored what little they had ever known of the Guardians...
–The Fellowship of the Ring

Forced: At the end of the round, discard Dwarven Sellsword unless the players as a group spend 1 resource.

...he did not altogether approve of the dwarves and their love of gold...
–The Hobbit

Action: Ready all characters in play.

"If there is only one way, then I muse take it. What comes after must come."
–Frodo Baggins, The Two Towers

Response: Cancel the 'when revealed' effects of a card that was just revealed from the encounter deck.

"There is naught that you can do, other than resist, with hope or without it."
–Elrond, The Fellowship of the Ring

Response: Cancel a shadow effect just triggered during combat.

"The hasty stroke goes oft astray," said Aragorn. "We must press our Enemy, and no longer wait upon him for the move."
–The Return of the King

Response: After a sentinel character is declared as a defender, it gets +2 for this attack. If this attack deals no damage, ready the defending character.

...but along in the porch upon the topmost step stood Beregond...
–The Return of the King

Combat Action: Return a Silvan ally you control to your hand to choose an enemy engaged with a player. That enemy cannot attack that player this phase.

"...we went ahead and spoke with feigned voices..."
–Haldir, The Fellowship of the Ring

Response: After Thorin Stonehelm is declared as an attacker, discard the top card of your deck to deal 1 damage to an enemy engaged with you.

Thorin III Stonehelm, Dain's son, became King under the mountain.
–The Return of the King

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.

Attach to the active location. Attached location gets +1 quest point.

Response: After attached location leaves play as an explored location, the first player puts 1 ally into play from his hand.

Play only if you control a Noldor or Silvan hero.

Attach to a hero.

Action: Discard Lembas to ready attached hero and heal 3 damage from it.

Play during the Quest phase, before characters are commited to the Quest.

Action: Reveal 1 less card from the encounter deck this phase. (To a minimum of 1.)

Action: Exhaust a character you control to immediately declare it as an attacker (and resolve its attack) against any eligible enemy target.

"...for he that strikes the first blow, if he strikes it hard enough, may need to strike no more." –Gandalf, The Two Towers

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.)

"There is a land where our fathers worked of old..."
Gimli, The Fellowship of the Ring

Action: Draw 2 cards. Then, discard 1 card for your hand.

"These are Daeron's Runes, such as were used of old in Moria..."
–Gandalf, The Fellowship of the Ring

Action: Return a Silvan ally you control to your hand to choose a player. Deal 1 damage to each enemy engaged with that player.

The marauding orcs had been waylaid and almost all destroyed...
–The Fellowship of the Ring

The first player draws 1 additional card in the resource phase.

"Well, my dear fellow," said Bilbo, "now you've heard the news, can't you spare me a moment? I want your help in something urgent."
–The Fellowship of the Ring

Action: Each player draws 1 card.

"It is a fair tale, though it is sad, as are all the tales of Middle–earth, and yet it may lift up your hearts." –Strider, The Fellowship of the Ring

Action: Search the top 5 cards of your deck for any number of Eagle cards and add them to your hand. Shuffle the other cards back into your deck.

"The Eagles! The Eagles!" –Bilbo Baggins, The Hobbit

Action: Discard Westfold Horse-Breaker to choose and ready a hero.

"Your own valour has done more, and the stout legs of the Westfold–men marching through the night." –Gandalf, The Two Towers

Action: Search the top 10 cards of your deck for any 1 Rohan card and add it to your hand. Then, shuffle the other cards back into your deck.

"More speed we cannot make, if the strength of Rohan is to be gathered." –Éomer, The Return of the King

Response: After you play Rivendell Minstrel from your hand, search your deck for 1 Song card and add it to your hand. Shuffle your deck.

As Elrond entered and went towards the seat prepared for him, Elvish minstrels began to make sweet music. –The Fellowship of the Ring

Response: After Frodo Baggins is damaged, cancel the damage and instead raise your threat by the amount of damage he would have been dealt. (Limit once per phase.)

Frodo began to feel restless, and the old paths seemed too well–trodden. he looked at maps and wondered what lay beyond their edges... –The Fellowship of the Ring

Attach to a character.

Attached character gains the Rohan trait.

"Nor indeed am I a stranger: for I have been in this land before, more than once, and ridden with the host of the Rohirrim, though under other name and in other guise." –Aragorn, The Two Towers

Action: Move any number of resource tokens from a hero's resource pool to any other hero's resource pool.

Inside the hall there was piled a large assortment of packages and parcels and small articles of furniture. –The Fellowship of the Ring

While committed to a quest, Escort from Edoras gets +2

Forced: After resolving a quest to which Escort from Edoras was committed, discard Escort from Edoras from play.

Ranged.

Response: After Brand son of Bain attacks and defeats an enemy engaged with another player, choose and ready one of that player's characters.

"The grandson of Bard the Bowman rules them, Brand son of Bain son of Bard."
–Glóin, The Fellowship of the Ring

Descendant of Thorondor cannot have restricted attachments.

Response: After Descendant of Thorondor enters or leaves play, deal 2 damage to any 1 enemy in the staging area.

Action: Choose an Eagle ally. Return that character to its owner's hand.

Not event an eagle poised against the sun would have marked the hobbits sitting there, under the weight of doom...
–The Two Towers

Action: Exhaust and discard The Riddermark’s Finest to place 2 progress tokens on any location.

"And there are no horses like the ones that are bred in that great vale between the Misty Mountains and the White."
–Gandalf, The Fellowship of the Ring

Play during the Quest phase, before characters are committed to the Quest.

Action: Reveal 1 less card from the encounter deck this phase. (To a minimum of 1.)

"The wide world is all about you: you can fence yourselves in, but you cannot for ever fence it out."
–Gildor, The Fellowship of the Ring

Ranged.Vassal of the Windlord cannot have restricted attachments.

Forced: After an attack in which Vassal of the Windlord attacked resolves, discard Vassal of the Windlord from play.

Action: Until the end of the phase, Rohan characters do not exhaust to commit to quests.

"But we must ride more warily; for war is abroad, and the Rohirrim, the Horse–lords, do not sleep, even if it seems so from afar." –Gandalf, The Two Towers

Eagles of the Misty Mountains cannot have restricted attachments. Eagles of the Misty Mountains gets +1 and +1 for each facedown attachment it has.

Response: After another Eagle character leaves play, you may attach that card facedown to Eagles of the Misty Mountains.

Response: After you play West Road Traveller from your hand, switch the active location with any other location in the staging area.

The dark world was rushing by, and the wind sang loudly in his ears.
–The Return of the King

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 Dwarf hero.

Action: Exhaust Narvi's Belt to give attached hero a , , or icon until the end of the phase.

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

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.