






Warden of Annúminas gets +1 for each enemy engaged with you.
Rangers passed at times beyond the hills, but they were few and did not stay. –The Fellowship of the Ring



Play only before the resolving enemy attacks step.
Combat Action: Choose an enemy not engaged with you. Engage that enemy. Then, discard a shadow card from that enemy, if able.
"Many evil things there are that your strong walls and bright swords do not stay." –Aragorn, The Fellowship of the Ring






Attach to a Dúnedain or Healer character.
Action: Discard Athelas and exhaust attached character to heal all damage on a character. You may discard a Condition attachment from that character.
"...it is a healing plant that the Men of the West brought to Middle–earth. Athelas they named it..." –Aragorn, The Fellowship of the Ring







Forced: After the active location is explored, place Curious Brandybuck on the bottom of its owner's deck.
Response: After you travel to a location, put Curious Brandybuck into play from your hand, under any player's control.







Veteran of Osgiliath gets +1 , +1
, and +1
while your threat is 40 or higher.
"So do we ever watch the shores nigh Osgiliath, which our enemies now partly hold, and issue from it to harry our lands."
–Faramir, The Two Towers



Ready up to X Dúnedain characters you control. X is the number of enemies engaged with you.
"But when dark things come from the houseless hills, or creep from sunless woods, they fly from us."
–Aragorn, The Fellowship of the Ring



Action: Exhaust a Ranger or Scout character to discard a non-unique active location. Then, search the encounter deck and discard pile for a non-unique location and make it the active location. Shuffle the encounter deck.
"I have crossed many mountains and many rivers, and trodden many plains, even into the far countries of Rhûn and Harad where the stars are strange..."
–Aragorn, The Fellowship of the Ring


Reduce the cost to play Keen as Lances by 1 for each card worth no victory points in the victory display.
Action: Add Keen as Lances to the victory display. Then, choose one: add 2 resources to a hero's resource pool, draw 3 cards, or reduce your threat by 4.










Action: Discard 2 cards from the top of your deck to give Longbeard Sentry sentinel and +1 until the end of the phase. (Limit once per phase.)
"...many of them have had experience in the dreadful dwarf and goblin wars, of which you have no doubt heard."
–Bilbo Baggins, The Hobbit










Cannot have restricted attachments.
Enters play exhausted.
Response: After Wellinghall Preserver readies, heal 1 damage from an Ent character.







Draw 3 additional cards at the beginning of the resource phase.
At the end of the round, discard all cards in your hand.
"That is the path of despair. Of folly, I would say, if the long wisdom of Elrond did not forbid me."
–The Fellowship of the Ring



You must use resources from 3 different heroes' pools to play this card.
Action: The players, as a group, can put up to 2 allies into play from their hands. Each of these allies may enter play under any player's control. At the end of the phase, return each of those allies that are still in play to their owners' hands.



Action: All enemies get -1 until the end of the phase.
Valour Action: Choose a player. Each enemy engaged with that player gets -3 until the end of the phase.
Loud the challenge rang and bellowed, like the shout of many throats under the cavernous roof.
–The Fellowship of the Ring







Response: After 1 or more cards are discarded from your hand, draw 1 card. Limit once per round.
"But have they the strength, have we here the strength to withstand the Enemy, the coming of Sauron at the last, when all else is overthrown?"
–The Fellowship of the Ring



Response: After an encounter card is revealed from the encounter deck, cancel its effects and discard it if there is a card with the same title in the victory display.
"...I perceive the Dark Lord and know his mind, or all of his mind that concerns the Elves. And he gropes ever to see me and my thought. But still the door is closed!"
–Galadriel, The Fellowship of the Ring



Planning Action: Until the end of the round, players do not raise their threat from questing unsuccessfully.
Valour Planning Action: Raise each player's threat by 2 to skip the quest phase this round.
"Dooms hangs still on a thread. Yet hope there is still, if we can stand but unconquered for a little while."
–Gandalf, The Two Towers



Lords of the Eldar can only be played from your discard pile.
Action: Place Lords of the Eldar on the bottom of your deck from your discard pile. Then, until the end of the round all Noldor characters get +1 , +1
, and +1
.



Response: Exhaust a Dúnedain or Ranger hero to cancel an enemy card just revealed from the encounter deck. Then, shuffle it back into the encounter deck and reveal an additional encounter card.
"... though I cannot disappear, I have hunted many wild and wary things and I can usually avoid being seen, if I wish."
–Aragorn, The Fellowship of the Ring







Fornost Bowman gets +1 for each enemy engaged with you.
To the last battle at Fornost with the Witch–lord of Angmar they sent some bowmen to the aid of the king...
–The Fellowship of the Ring



Attach to a Ranger character. Limit 1 per character.
While attached character is commited to the quest, Weather-stained Cloak gains:
Response: Exhaust Weather-stained Cloak to cancel 1 point of damage just dealt to attached character.
They were clad in warm raiment and heavy cloaks...
–The Return of the King







Draw 1 additional card at the beginning of the resource phase.
Forced: After drawing cards at the beginning of the resource phase, choose and discard 1 of those cards.
Very tall he was, and his beard was long, and he was grey and old, save that his eyes were keen as stars...
–The Return of the King







Response: After drawing your setup hand, instead of taking a mulligan, you may discard any number of cards from your hand. Then, draw that many cards.
Action: If you have no cards in your hand, draw 6 cards. (Limit once per game.)
"What power still remains lies with us..."
–The Fellowship of the Ring














While the top card of your discard pile is an attachment, Warden of the Havens gets +2 and gains sentinel.
"...and if he comes, assailing the White Towers and the Havens, hereafter the Elves may have no escape from the lengthening shadows of Middle-earth."
–Galdor, The Fellowship of the Ring



Attach to a or a Scout character.
Response: At the beginning of the travel phase, exhaust Mariner’s Compass and attached character to search the top 5 cards of the encounter deck for a location. Switch that location with a location in the staging area. Shuffle the encounter deck.



Action: Place 2 progress on any location. Resolve that effect again for each copy of The Evening Star currently in your discard pile (you may choose new targets).
...for ever still a herald on
an errand that should never rest
to bear his shining lamp afar,
the Flammifer of Westernesse.
–The Fellowship of the Ring



Attach to a location in the staging area.
Progress from questing successfully may be placed on the attached location before it is placed on the current quest.



Quest Action: Ready a questing character and give that character +1 until the end of the phase. Resolve that effect again for each copy of Elwing’s Flight currently in your discard pile (you may choose different targets).
There flying Elwing came to him
and flame was in the darkness lit;
more bright than light of diamond
the fire upon her carcanet.
–The Fellowship of the Ring



Attach to a Gondor hero.
Action: Spend 2 resources from attached hero's resource pool to draw 1 card.
"The last Steward of Gondor begs leave to surrender his office." And he held out a white rod.
–The Return of the King



Attach to a character.
Attach character gains the Gondor trait.
But be it known that I have sworn him to my service...
–The Return of the King










Response: After a Warrior character is destroyed while defending against an enemy attack, deal damage to the attacking enemy equal to that character's printed .
In a grave along under the shadow of the Hornburg lay Háma, captain of the King's guard. He fell before the Gate.
–The Two Towers



Response: When a shadow card increases an enemy's by any amount, increase the defending character's
by 3 for that attack. Then, the players as a group may spend 2
resources to ready the defending character and give it +3
for its next attack this phase.
...the tides of fate had turned against them and their doom was at hand.
–The Return of the King







Action: Discard a card from your hand to heal 1 damage on any character. (Limit twice per round).
"You are in Rivendell, and you need not worry about anything for the present."
–Gandalf, The Fellowship of the Ring


Play only if you control 2 or fewer heroes.
Action: Until the end of the phase, if your threat is higher than 20, treat your threat as if it is 20.
"I see now little hope, if we do not soon vanish from sight for a while, and cover our trail."
–Gandalf, The Fellowship of the Ring



Resource Action: Exhaust a Noble hero you control to add 2 resources to that hero's resource pool.
...in these days men are slow to believe that a captain can be wise and learned in the scrolls of lore and song, as he is, and yet man of hardihood and swift judgement in the field.
–Beregond, The Return of the King



Play only after the staging step.
Quest Action: Choose X questing Hobbit characters you control. Ready each chosen character and remove them from the quest. Then, reduce your threat by X.
"The road goes on for ever," said Pippin; "but I can't without a rest. It is high time for lunch."
–The Fellowship of the Ring



Attach to a location.
Action: Exhaust a Ranger or Scout character to give attached location -2 until the end of the phase.
"In this high play you may see the two powers that are opposed to one another; and ever they strive now in thought..."
–The Fellowship of the Ring



Play Entagling Nets into the staging area, unattached.
If unattached, attach Entangling Nets to the next eligible enemy that enters the staging area.
Attached enemy gets -2 and -2




















Veteran Sword-elf gets +1 and +1
for each copy of Veteran Sword-elf in your discard pile.
The elves were the first to charge. Their hatred for the goblins is cold and bitter.
–The Hobbit







Response: After you play Linhir Sea-captain from your hand, if you paid all of its resource cost from a single hero's resource pool, both that hero and Linhir Sea-captain do not exhaust to quest this round.



You may exhaust any number of Healer characters you control as part of this card's cost. Reduce the cost to play this card by 1 for each Healer character you exhaust in this way.
Refresh Action: Choose a hero in any player's discard pile. Put that hero into play under its owner's control, with 1 damage token on it.


Limit 1 per deck.
Planning Action: Add Justice Shall Be Done to the victory display to draw 3 cards and add 3 resources to the resource pool of each hero you control. At the end of the round, you are eliminated from the game.
"...it is the last move in a great jeopardy, and for one side or the other it will bring the end of the game."
–Aragorn, The Return of the King



Action: Choose a hero you control. Each hero with lower threat cost than the chosen hero gets +2 until the end of the phase. Then, the players as a group may spend 2
resources to give +2
to each hero with lower threat cost than the chosen hero until the end of the phase.
Wherever he came men's hearts would lift again, and the winged shadows pass from memory.
–The Return of the King