If each hero you control has the Hobbit trait, Pippin gains:

Response: After an enemy engages you, raise your threat by 3 to return it to the staging area. Until the end of the round, that enemy cannot engage you.

"There must be someone with intelligence in the party." –The Fellowship of the Ring

Denethor gets -1 for each damaged hero you control.

Discard Denethor if his is 0 or less.

"Denethor is of another sort, proud and subtile, a man of far greater lineage and power, though he is not called a king." –Gandalf, The Return of the King

Attach to a Gondor or Outlands hero.

If each hero you control has a printed resource icon, Lord of Morthond gains:

Response: After you play a ally, ally or ally, draw 1 card.

"The Captains of the Outlands are expected up the South Road ere sundown. Come with us and you will see." –Bergil, The Return of the King

Attach to a hero.

Reduce the cost to play Book of Eldacar by 1 for each hero you control with a printed resource icon.

Action: Discard Book of Eldacar to play any event card in your discard pile as if it were in your hand. Then, place that event on the bottom of your deck.

Ranged.

Response: After Ithilien Archer attacks and damages an enemy, return that enemy to the staging area.

Play Ithilien Pit into the staging area unattached.

If unattached, attach Ithilien Pit to the next eligible enemy that enters the staging area.

Any character may choose attached enemy as the target of an attack.

Ranged.

Faramir gets +1 for each enemy in the staging area.

"The road may pass, but they shall not! Not while Faramir is Captain." –Mablung, The Two Towers

Attach to a Gondor or Dúnedain hero.

Action: Spend 1 resource from attached hero's resource pool to give attached hero +1 for each resource in its resource pool until the end of the phase. (Limit once per phase.)

Attach to a hero.

Reduce the cost to play Map of Earnil by 1 for each hero you control with a printed resource icon.

Action: Discard Map of Earnil to play any event card in your discard pile as if it were in your hand. Then, place that event on the bottom of your deck.

Attach to a Noble hero.

Planning Action: Exhaust Palantir and attached hero to name a card type and look at the top 3 cards of the encounter deck. For each of those cards that matches the named type, draw a card. For each of those cards that does not match the named type, raise your threat by 2.

Action: Discard Caldara to put 1 ally from your discard pile into play for each other hero you control with a printed resource icon. (Limit once per game.)

...there is no purpose higher in the world as it now stands than the good of Gondor...
–Denethor, The Return of the King

Attach to a hero. Reduce the cost to play Tome of Atanatar by 1 for each hero you control with a printed resource icon.

Action: Discard Tome of Atanatar to play any event event card in your discard pile as if it were in your hand. Then, place that event on the bottom of your deck.

If there is at least 1 Rohan hero in play, lower the cost to play Guthlaf by 1.

If there is at least 1 Gondor hero in play, Guthlaf gains sentinel.

Action: Discard the top 3 card of your deck to put Emery into play from your hand, under any player's control. Then, if any of the discarded cards have the , or sphere, discard Emery.

Action: Exhaust Anborn to return 1 Trap card from your discard pile to your hand.

"I sent my keenest huntsmen to seek him, but he slipped them, and they had no sight of him till now, save Anborn."
–Faramir, The Two Towers

Action: Discard the top 2 cards of your deck. You may attach 1 attachment card discarded by this effect to an eligible Dwarf character in play.

Gimli the Dwarf alone wore openly a short shirt of steel–rings, for dwarves make light of burdens...
–The Fellowship of the Ring

Response: After Hidden Cache is discarded from your deck, add 2 resources to the resource pool of a hero you control.

Action: Spend 1 resource to draw 1 card.

...there was a good deal of food jumbled carlessly on shelves and on the ground, among an untidy litter of plunder...
–The Hobbit

Response: After a character leaves play, Éomer gets +2 until the end of the round. (Limit once per round.)

"I am named Éomer son of Éomund, and am called the Third Marshal of Riddermark." –The Two Towers

Doomed 4.

Action: Add 1 resource to each hero's resource pool.

"...in the midst of that valley is a tower of stone called Orthanc. It was not made by Saruman, but by the Men of Númenor long ago: and it is very tall and has many secrets..." –Gandalf, The Fellowship of the Ring

Doomed 2.

Action: Each player draws 2 cards.

"His knowledge is deep, but his pride has grown with it..." –Gandalf, The Fellowship of the Ring

Action: Choose another player. That player gains control of Blue Mountain Trader. Then, that 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.)

Action: Return a Silvan ally you control to your hand to search the top 5 cards of your deck for a Silvan ally. Put that ally into play and shuffle the other cards back into your deck. You can only play 1 copy of The Tree People each phase.

No folk could they see, nor hear any feet upon the paths; but there were many voices, about them, and in the air above. –The Fellowship of the Ring

X is the number of players in the game.

Action: Starting with the first player, each player chooses 1 different option:

• ready a hero he controls,
• add 1 resource to the resource pool of a hero he controls,
• draw 1 card,
• or shuffle 1 card from his discard pile into his deck.

"I it was who first summoned the White Council."
–Galadriel, The Fellowship of the Ring

Attach to a Scout hero.

While attached character is committed to the quest, place 1 progress on the first location revealed by the encounter deck each round.

"I have had a hard life and a long: and the leagues that lie between here and Gondor are a small part in the count of my journeys." –Aragorn, The Fellowship of the Ring

Attach to a hero. Limit 1 per hero.

The first event card you play each round that matches attached hero's printed sphere gains secrecy 1.

Each cloak was fastened about the neck with a brooch like a green leaf veined with silver. –The Fellowship of the Ring

You may give Herald of Anórien doomed 2 when you play it from your hand. If you do, it gains:

Response: After you play Herald of Anórien, choose a player. That player may put into play 1 ally from his hand with a printed cost 2 or lower.

"Send the heralds forth! Let them summon all who dwell nigh!" –Théoden, The Two Towers

Cannot have restricted attachments.

Response: After Gwaihir enters play, search your discard pile for an Eagle ally and put it into play under your control. At the end of the round, if that ally is still in play, add it to your hand.

"The North Wind blows, but we shall outfly it." –Gwaihir, The Return of the King

Action: Choose a hero. That hero gets +2 until the end of the phase. Then, if your threat is 20 or less and this is the first time you played a copy of Courage Awakened this round, return this card to your hand instead of discarding it.

But the courage that had been awakened in him was now too strong: he could not leave his friends so easily. –The Fellowship of the Ring

Response: After you engage an enemy, add 1 resource to Mablung's resource pool. (Limit once per phase.)

But the Captains of the West were well warned by their scouts, skilled men from Henneth Annûn led by Mablung...
–The Return of the King

Action: Take control of the first player token and draw 1 card.

"Come! I will lead you now!"
–Aragorn, The Fellowship of the Ring

You may give Mirkwood Pioneer doomed 1 when you play it from your hand. If you do it gains:

Response: After you play Mirkwood Pioneer, choose a card in the staging area. Until the end of the round, the chosen card does not contribute its .

Attach to a Ranger hero.

Response: After attached hero commits to a quest, name enemy, location or treachery. If a card of the named type is revealed during this quest phase, exhaust Wingfoot to ready attached hero.

"Wingfoot I name you. This deed of the three friends should be sung in many a hall. Forty leagues and five you have measured ere the forth day is ended!"
–Éomer, The Two Towers

Galadriel cannot quest, attack, or defend. Allies you control do not exhaust to commit to the quest during the round they enter play.

Action: Exhaust Galadriel to choose a player. That player reduces his threat by 1 and draws 1 card. (Limit once per round.)

Attach to a Noble hero.

Response: After attached hero gains any number of resources from a card effect, exhaust Heir of Mardil to ready attached hero.

"...in my turn I bore it, and so did each eldest son of our house, far back into the vanished years before the failing of the kings..."
–Denethor, The Return of the King

You may give Henneth Annûn Guard doomed 1 when you play it from your hand. If you do, it gains:

Response: After you play Henneth Annûn Guard, choose a character. Until the end of the round, that character gets +2 and gains sentinel.

"Does he think that men sleep without watch all night?" –Faramir, The Two Towers

Action: Until the end of the phase, each Rohan character with a Mount attachment gets +3

"Arise, arise, riders of Théoden!" –Théoden, The Return of the King

Attach to Galadriel.

Action: Exhaust Mirror of Galadriel to search the top 10 cards of your deck for a card and add it to your hand. Shuffle the rest back into your deck. Then, discard a random card from your hand.

"What you will see, if you leave the Mirror free to work, I cannot tell. For it shows things that were, things that are, things that yet may be."
–Galadriel, The Fellowship of the Ring

Cannot have restricted attachments.

Enters play exhausted.

There were songs about the hunt of the Ents for the Entwives sung among Elves and Men from Mirkwood to Gondor. –The Two Towers

Attach to a Noldor or Silvan character.

Limit 1 per character.

Attached character gets +1 (+2 instead if the active location has the Forest trait).

It was hard to say what colour they were: grey with the hue of twilight under the trees they seemed to be; and yet if they were moved, or set in another light, they were green as shadowed leaves... –The Fellowship of the Ring

Attach to Galadriel. She gains a resource icon.

Quest Action: Exhaust Nenya and Galadriel to add her to another character's until the end of the phase.

"The is Nenya, the Ring of Adamant, and I am its keeper." –Galadriel, The Fellowship of the Ring

Attach to a Warrior hero.

Response: After you optionally engage an enemy, exhaust Captain of Gondor to give attached hero +1 and +1 until the end of the round.

"Boromir it was that drove the enemy at last back from this western shore..." –Beregond, The Return of the King

Cannot have restricted attachments. Enters play exhausted.

Booming Ent gets +1 for each damaged Ent character you control.

"...a man that hacks once at an Ent never gets a chance of a second blow." –Merry, The Two Towers

Quest Action: Choose a non-unique enemy in the staging area. Until the end of the phase, progress that would be placed on the quest from questing successfully is instead assigned as damage to the chosen enemy. (Progress must still be placed on any active location first.)

Like thunder they broke upon the enemy... –The Return of the King

Cannot have restricted attachments. Treebeard enters play exhausted and collects 1 resource each resource phase. These resources can be used to pay for Ent cards played from your hand.

Action: Pay 2 resources from Treebeard's pool to ready an Ent character.

Each enemy engaged with you gets -1 .

Response: After Aragorn participates in an attack that destroys an enemy, choose an enemy not engaged with you and engage that enemy.

"I serve no man," said Aragorn; "but the servants of Sauron I pursue into whatever land they may go." –The Two Towers

While you are engaged with any enemy, Halbarad does not exhaust to commit to a quest.

You may optionally engage 1 additional enemy during the encounter phase.

"Little do they know of our long labour for the safekeeping of their borders, and yet I grudge it not." –The Return of the King

Forced: After Dúnedain Hunter enters play, search the top 5 cards of the encounter deck for a non-unique enemy and put it into play engaged with you. If no enemy enters play by this effect, discard Dúnedain Hunter. Shuffle the encounter deck.

Attach to a Dúnedain hero.

Planning Action: Exhaust Heir of Valandil to reduce the cost of the next Dúnedain ally you play this phase by 1 for each enemy engaged with you.

"But my home, such as I have, is in the North. For here the heirs of Valandil have ever dwelt in long line unbroken from father unto son for many generations." –Aragorn, The Fellowship of the Ring

Response: After an enemy is revealed from the top of the encounter deck, exhaust Merry to reduce your threat by that enemy's .

"We have come a long way with you and been through some stiff times. We want to go on."
–The Fellowship of the Ring