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

Planning Action: Return each Silvan ally you control to your hand. Then, play each of those allies from your hand one at a time at no cost.

Celeborn came forth and led the host of Lórien...
–The Return of the King

Doomed 2.

Action: Each player may put one ally card into play from his hand. At the end of the phase, shuffle each of those allies that are still in play into their owners' decks.

Doomed 1.

Action: Look at the top 5 cards of the encounter deck. Put them back in the same order.

...Legolas was standing, gazing northwards into the darkness, thoughtful and silent as a young tree in a windless night.
–The Two Towers

While paying for The Muster of Rohan, each Rohan hero you control is considered to have a icon.

Planning Action: Search the top 10 cards of your deck for up to 4 Rohan allies and put them into play. Shuffle your deck. If any of those allies are still in play at the end of the round, discard them.

Ranged.

You cannot play Northern Bowmaster from your hand unless you are engaged with an enemy.

Doomed 2.

Action: Each player deals 2 damage to an enemy engaged with him.

Down, heedless of order, rushed all the dwarves of Dain to his help.
–The Hobbit

Limit 1 per deck.

Action: Choose a hero you control and discard all tokens from it. Select a different non-, non- hero from your collection with a threat cost less than or equal to the chosen hero. Swap those heroes, moving all eligible attachments to the hero from your collection.

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

Response: After Dale Messenger enters play, choose a player. That player heals 1 damage from each character he controls with a player card attachment.

"We discover that messengers have come also to King Brand in Dale..."
–Glóin, The Fellowship of the Ring

Cannot have restricted attachments.

Forced: After Eagle Emissary quests successfully, pay 1 resource or discard it from play.

...and out of the East there came a great Eagle flying, and he bore tidings beyond hope from The Lords of the West...
–The Return of the King

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

Response: After Westfold Lancer quests successfully, discard it to choose a non-unique enemy in the staging area. Deal 2 damage to the chosen enemy.

...the white fury of the Northmen burned the hotter, and more skilled was their knighthood with long spears...
–The Return of the King

Response:At the end of the staging step, discard cards from the top of the encounter deck until you discard a treachery. Resolve its 'when revealed' effects to ready each of your questing characters. Each of your questing characters gets +1 until the end of the phase.

Your deck must be exactly 50 players cards and include exactly 10 cards from each of these four spheres: and You cannot include more than 2 copies of any card by title in your deck.

When choosing your starting heroes, you may choose 4 heroes instead of 3. Each of your heroes must belong to a different sphere.

"You can trust us to stick to you through think and thin – to the bitter end."
–Merry, 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

While your threat is 40 or higher, Angbor the Fearless gets +2 and does not exhaust to quest.

"Four thousands I sent marching from Pelargir through Lossarnach two days ago; and Angbor the fearless rides before them."
–Aragorn, The Return of the King

Planning Action: Return each Silvan ally you control to your hand. Then, play each of those allies from your hand one at a time at no cost.

Celeborn came forth and led the host of Lórien...
–The Return of the King

Ranged.

You cannot play Northern Bowmaster from your hand unless you are engaged with an enemy.

Cannot have restricted attachments.

Forced: After Eagle Emissary quests successfully, pay 1 resource or discard it from play.

...and out of the East there came a great Eagle flying, and he bore tidings beyond hope from The Lords of the West...
–The Return of the King

The first player gains control of Bilbo Baggins.

Bilbo Baggins cannot gain resources from player card effects.

If Bilbo Baggins leaves play, the players lose the game.

If you control at least 5 Dwarf characters, add 1 additional resource to Thorin Oakenshield's pool when you collect resources during the resource phase.

"I am Thorin son of Thrain son of Thror, King under the Mountain!" –Thorin, The Hobbit

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

Play during the quest phase, before the staging step.

Action: Deal 2 damage to the first enemy revealed from the encounter deck this phase.

Thorin came last - and he was not caught unawares. He came expecting mischief, and didn't need to see his friends' legs sticking out of sacks to tell him that things were not all well. –The Hobbit

Action: Bilbo Baggins gets +2 +2 and +2 until the end of the phase. (You may spend a resource from Bilbo Baggins' resource pool to play this card even if you do not control Bilbo Baggins.)

“You can say Expert Treasure-hunter instead of Burglar if you like. Some of them do.”
– Glóin, The Hobbit

Bilbo Baggins does not count against the hero limit and cannot gain resources from non-treasure cards. The first player gains control of Bilbo Baggins.

Action: Spend 1 resource to search your deck for a treasure card and add it to your hand.

If Bilbo Baggins leaves play, the players have lost the game.

Action: Choose a hero you control. Until the end of the phase, give control of that hero and all resources in that hero's resource pool to another player. (Limit 1 per phase.)

"Come!" called Gandalf. "There is yet time for council." –The Hobbit

Action: Exhaust a hero you control to shuffle the encounter deck and look at its top card. Place progress tokens on the current quest equal to the revealed card's . Then, put that card back on top of the encounter deck.

As they worked the ravens brought them constant tidings. –The Hobbit

Action: If you control at least 1 Dwarf hero, put a Dwarf ally from your discard pile into play under your control. Put that ally on the bottom of your deck at the end of the phase.

Out leapt the King under the Mountain, and his companions followed him. –The Hobbit

Attach to a hero.

Response: After a location is added to the staging area, attach Thrór’s Key to that location. While attached to a location, Thrór’s Key gains:

Treat attached location's printed text box as blank, except for traits.

"The key that went with the map! Try it now while there is still time!" –Bilbo, The Hobbit

Attach to Bilbo Baggins.

Action: Exhaust Bilbo’s Magic Ring and raise your threat by 1 to gain 1 resource. (Limit once per round.)

Response: After Bilbo Baggins exhausts to defend an attack, exhaust Bilbo’s Magic Ring and raise your threat by 3 to cancel all damage from this attack.

Attach to a hero.

Action: Exhaust The Arkenstone and raise your threat by X to lower by X the cost of the next ally you play this phase that matches the attached hero's sphere.

"...the Heart of the Mountain; and it is also the heart of Thorin. He values it above a rive of gold." –Bilbo, The Hobbit

Attach to Bilbo Baggins.

Attached hero gets +1 and +1 hit point.

"Mr. Baggins!" he cried. "Here is the first payment of your reward! Cast off your old coat and put on this!" – Thorin, The Hobbit

Attach to a hero.

Action: Add Thror's Golden Cup to the victory display to draw 3 cards.

...the great golden cup of Thror, two–handed, hammered and carven with birds and flowers whose eyes and petals were of jewels... –The Hobbit

Response: Spend 1 resource and exhaust The One Ring to cancel the effect of an encounter card just revealed from the encounter deck. Shuffle that card back into the encounter deck and reveal another encounter card.

"I will take the Ring," he said, "though I do not know the way." –The Fellowship of the Ring

Action: Each hero you control gets +1 until the end of the round. Draw 1 card for each Hobbit hero you control.

"I wonder if that is Gandalf coming after us" said Frodo, but even as he said it, he had a feeling that it was not so... –The Fellowship of the Ring

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.

"It is a beryl, an elf–stone. Whether it was set there, or let fall by chance, I cannot say, but it brings hope to me"
–Aragorn, The Fellowship of the Ring

Permanent.

Setup: Attach to a hero.

Attached hero gets +1 defense and gains the Ranger trait.

"What roads would any dare to tread, what safety would there be in quiet lands, or in the homes of simple men at night, if the Dúnedain were asleep, or were all gone into the grave?"
–Aragorn, The Fellowship of the Ring

Response: After Frodo Baggins exhausts to defend an attack, exhaust The One Ring and spend 1 resource to target the attacking enemy. Then, this attack deals no damage and each player raises his threat by 2.

"But there is more about you now than appears on the surface." –Bilbo, The Fellowship of the Ring

Response: After Bilbo Baggins enters play, search your deck for a Pipe attachment and add it to your hand. Shuffle your deck.

"Elves may thrive on speech alone, and Dwarves endure great weariness, but I am an old Hobbit, and I miss my meal at noon." –The Fellowship of the Ring

Attach to the Ring-bearer.

Attached hero gets +1 and +1 hit point.

"I should feel happier if I knew you were wearing it. I have a fancy it would turn even the knives of the Black Riders..." –Bilbo, The Fellowship of the Ring

Setup: Attach to a hero in play.

Action: Add Three Golden Hairs to the victory display and remove it from the campaign pool, to lower each player's threat by 3. Then, each player draws 3 cards.

"...your hands shall flow with gold, and yet over you gold shall have no dominion." –Galadriel, The Fellowship of the Ring

Setup: Attach to a hero in play.

Action: Add Leaf-wrapped Lembas to the victory display, and remove it from the campaign pool, to ready all heroes in play.

Often in their hearts they thanked the lady of Lórien for the gift of lembas, for they could eat of it and find new strength even as they ran. –The Two Towers

Play only if you control Aragorn.

Quest Action: Choose 3 heroes committed to the quest. Ready those heroes. Until the end of the round, each of the chosen heroes gets +1 , +1 , and +1 .

"We shall makes such a chase as shall be accounted a marvel among the Three Kindreds: Elves, Dwarves, and Men. Forth the Three Hunters!" –Aragorn, The Two Towers

Action: Spend 1 resource and exhaust The One Ring to give Frodo Baggins +2 and +2 until the end of the round.

"It's my doom, I think, to go to that Shadow yonder, so that a way will be found." –The Two Towers

Play Ambush into the staging area unattached. If unattached, attach Ambush to the next eligible enemy that enters the staging area.

Combat Action: The engaged player discards Ambush to declare an attack against the attached enemy.

"But we have a new errand on this journey: we come to ambush the Men of Harad." –Mablung, The Two Towers

Response: After a hero you control defends an attack made by an enemy with engagement cost higher than your threat, ready that hero. Until the end of the phase, that hero gets +2 while attacking that enemy.

"We're going on; but we'll settle with you first. Come on, and taste it again!" –Sam Gamgee, The Two Towers

Lower the cost to play In the Shadows by 1 for each Hobbit or Ranger hero you control.

Combat Action: Each enemy engaged with you with engagement cost higher than your threat gets -1 and -1 until the end of the phase.

He could see them stealing up the slopes, singly or in long files, keeping always to the shade of grove or thicket... –The Two Towers

Play only if you control the Ring-bearer.

Planning Action: Brace of Coneys to the victory display to (choose 2): heal up to 2 damage from a hero, add 2 resources to a hero's pool, draw 2 cards, or reduce a player's threat by 2.

“'Sméagol always helps,' he said. 'He has brought rabbits, nice rabbits.'”
—Gollum, The Two Towers

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 alone in the porch upon the topmost step stood Beregond, clad in the black and silver of the Guard; and he held the door against them.
–The Return of the King