






Action: Beorn gains +5 until the end of the phase. At the end of the phase in which you trigger this effect, shuffle Beorn back into your deck. (Limit once per round.)
"I don't need your service, thank you...but I expect you need mine." –The Hobbit



Combat Action: Choose an enemy engaged with a player. That enemy cannot attack that player this phase.
A few brave men were strung before them to make a feint of resistance, and many there fell before the rest drew back and fled to either side. –The Hobbit







Action: Reduce your threat by 3 to give control of Wandering Took to another player. Raise that player's threat by 3. (Limit once per round.)
...but certainly there was something not entirely hobbit-like about them, and once in a while members of the Took-clan would go and have adventures. –The Hobbit







Response: After Northern Tracker commits to a quest, place 1 progress token on each location in the staging area.
"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



Action: Choose an enemy engaged with a player. Return that enemy to the staging area.
The light of the torches and the fire flickered about them...
–The Hobbit






Action: Choose a hero in any player's discard pile. Put that card into play, under its owner's control.
'Yes, fortune or fate have helped you,' said Gandalf, 'not to mention courage.'
–The Fellowship of the Ring



Attach to a hero.
Attached hero gains +1 .
"You are indeed high in the favor of the Lady!"
–Unnamed Elf of Lórien,
The Fellowship of the Ring



Attach to a location.
Attached location gets -1 .
"Power to defy our Enemy is not in him, unless shuch power is in the earth itself."
–Gandalf, The Fellowship of the Ring



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



Attach to a hero.
Action: Discard a card from your hand to give attached hero +1 or +1
until the end of the phase. Limit 3 times per phase.
'Speak no evil of the lady Galadriel!' said Aragorn sternly. 'There is in her and in this land no evil, unless a man bring it hither himself. Then let him beware.'
–The Fellowship of the Ring



Attach to a hero. Attached hero gets -1
Response: Exhaust Dark Knowledge to look at 1 shadow card that was just dealt to an enemy attacking you.
'Go on then!' said Frodo. 'What do you know?'
'Too much; too many dark things,' said Strider grimly.
–The Fellowship of the Ring







Action: Pay 1 resource from Gildor Inglorion's resource pool to choose a player to draw 1 card (Limit once per round.)
"Gildor Inglorion of the House of Finrod. We are Exiles, and most of our kindred have long ago departed...
–The Fellowship of the Ring







Response: After you play a Dwarf character from your hand, reduce your threat by 1.
"Nori, at your service." –Nori, The Hobbit







At the end of the round, discard Galadriel from play.
Response: After you play Galadriel from your hand, search the top 5 cards of your deck for an attachment of cost 3 or less and put it into play. Put the remaining cards back in any order.







Action: Exhaust Faramir to choose a player. Each character controlled by that player gets +1 until the end of the phase.
"He leads now in all perilous ventures."
–Mablung, The Two Towers







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














Response: After you play Fili from your hand during the planning phase, seach your deck for Kili and put him into play under your control. Then shuffle your deck.
"Fili is the youngest and still has the best sight."
–Thorin, The Hobbit







Response: After you play Kili from your hand during the planning phase, seach your deck for Fili and put him into play under your control. Then shuffle your deck.
"Let us join the throng!"
–The Hobbit







Action: Choose another player. That player gains control of Blue Mountain Trader. Then, the player moves 1 resource from the resource pool of a hero he controls to the resource pool of a hero you control, or Blue Mountain Trader is discarded. (Limit once per round.)



Attach to a Nolder or Silvan hero.
Attached hero does not exhaust to commit to a quest.
"...those who have dwelt in the Blessed Ralm live at once in both worlds, and against both the Seen and Unseen they have great power."
–Gandalf, The Fellowship of the Ring



Attach to a hero.
Action: Exhaust Unexpected Courage to ready attached hero.
"You cannot trap me, though you try,
in your cobwebs crazy."
–Bilbo Baggins, The Hobbit



Attach to a location.
Response: After attached location is explored, the first player draws 3 cards.
...anything that Hobbits had no immediate use for, but were unwilling to throw away, they called mathom.
The Fellowship of the Ring



Attach to a hero.
Action: Discard Cram to ready attached hero.
If you want to know what cram is, I can only say that I don't know the recipe; but it is biscuitish, keeps good indefinitely, is supposed to be sustaining, and is certainly not entertaining...
–The Hobbit



Action: Choose and ready 1 ally card.
"...no road looks toward safety any longer. Be vigilant!"
–Gandalf, The Return of the King










Action: Pay 1 resource from Glorfindel's pool to heal 1 damage on any character. (Limit once per round.)
"You saw him for a moment as he is upon the other side: one of the mighty of the firstborn."
–Gandalf, The Fellowship of the Ring







Action: Pay 1 resource from a hero's resource pool to add 1 resource to Bifur's resource pool. Any player may trigger this ability. (Limit once per round.)
"And winter comes after autumn." – Bifur, The Hobbit







Response: After Mablung enters play, choose an enemy to get +5 enagement cost until the end of the round. Then, you may engage that enemy, or return it to the staging area
"But still we will not sit idle and let Him do all as He would."
–The Two Towers














Response: Discard Dúnedain Lookout to cancel the 'when revealed' effects of an enemy just revealed from the encounter deck.
"Travellers scowl at us and countrymen give us scornful names."
–Aragorn, The Fellowship of the Ring






Response: After Envoy of Pelargir enters play, add 1 resource to a Gondor or Noble hero's resource pool.



Attach to a quest card in play. Limit 1 per quest.
Response: After attached quest is defeated, each player either draws 2 cards or heals up to 5 damage from among characters he controls.
"...through the ages of the world we have fought the long defeat."
–Galadriel, The Fellowship of the Ring



Combat Action: Choose an enemy engaged with a player. That enemy cannot attack that player this phase.
A few brave men were strung before them to make a feint of resistance, and many there fell before the rest drew back and fled to either side.
–The Hobbit



Action: Choose a Dwarf character. Until the end of the phase, that character gets +3 .
Down from the wall leapt Gimli with a fierce cry the echoed in the cliffs. "Khazâd! Khazâd!" He soon had work enough.
–The Two Towers







Action: Discard Beorning Beekeeper from play to deal 1 damage to each enemy in the staging area.
"We are getting near," said Gandalf. "We are on th eedge of his bee pastures." – The Hobbit



Attach to an ally.
Action: Discard Born Aloft from play to return attached ally to its owner's hand.
"Very well," said Gandalf. "Take us where and as far as you will!" –The Hobbit














Response: After a character leaves play, ready Prince Imrahil. (Limit once per round.)
But beyond, in the great fief of Belfalas, dwelt Prince Imrahil in his castle of Dol Amroth by the sea, and he was of high blood, and his fold also, tall men and proud with sea-grey eyes. –The Return of the King.






Attach to a location.
Response: After attached location is explored, the first player draws 3 cards.
The Mathom-house it was called; for anything that Hobbits had no immediate use for, but were unwilling to throw away, they called a mathom. Their dwellings were apt to become rather crowded with mathoms... –The Fellowship of the Ring







Response: After Keen-eyed Took enters play, reveal the top card of each player's deck.
Action: Return Keen-eyed Took to your hand to discard the top card of each player's deck.
Then something Tookish woke up inside him...
–The Hobbit













Action: Exhaust Gildor Inglorion to look at the top 3 cards of your deck. Switch one of those cards with a card from your hand. Then, return the 3 cards to the top of your deck, in any order.
"Go not to the Elves for counsel, for they will say both no and yes." –Frodo Baggins, The Fellowship of the Ring







Action: Raise your threat by 1 to ready Boromir. (Limit once per phase.)
Action: Discard Boromir to deal 2 damage to each enemy engaged with a single player.
"...in Gondor we must trust to such weapons as we have." –The Fellowship of the Ring







Response: Discard Dúnedain Watcher from play to cancel the shadow effects of a card just triggered.
"If simple folk are free from care and fear, simple they will be, and we must be secret to keep them so. That has been the task of my kindred, while the years have lengthened and the grass has grown." –Strider, The Fellowship of the Ring