Response: After an ally leaves play, add it to its owner's hand instead of placing it in the discard pile.
Valour Action: Until the end of the phase, add each ally that leaves play to its owner's hand instead of placing it in the discard pile.
He let blow the horns to rally all men to his banner that could come thither...
–The Return of the King
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Response: Exhaust Honour Guard to cancel 1 point of damage just dealt to a character.
Valour Response: Exhaust and discard Honour Guard to cancel up to 5 damage just dealt to a character.
Attach to a hero with Sentinel. Limit 1 per hero.
Response: Exhaust Raven-winged Helm to prevent 1 point of damage just dealt to attached character.
He had a small hauberk, its rings of forged of steel, maybe, yet black as jet; and a high-crowned helm with small raven-wings on either side, set with a silver star in the centre of the circlet.
–The Return of the King
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Response: After an Ent character takes any amount of damage, ready it. That character gets +3 until the end of the phase.
"They roared and boomed and trumpeted, until stones began to crack and fall at the mere noise of them." –Merry, The Two Towers
He was taking a wandering course with many turns and doublings, to put off any pursuit. –The Fellowship of the Ring
Limit 1 per deck.
Response: When this stage is defeated, reduce each player's threat by 5.
Limit 3 copies of Leave No Trace in the victory display.
Response: After a non-unique location is explored, add Leave No Trace to the victory display to add that location to the victory display.
We must do something to delay the enemy first.
–Aragorn, The Fellowship of the Ring
Limit 1 per deck.
Battle. (Characters use their instead of when questing here.)
Response: When this stage is defeated, each player may choose and discard a non-unique enemy engaged with him.
Limit 3 copies of None Return in the victory display.
Response: After a non-unique enemy is destroyed, add None Return to the victory display to add that enemy to the victory display.
"None of the Orcs will ever return out of Lórien."
–Haldir, The Fellowship of the Ring
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While you are engaged with at least 1 enemy, Amarthiúl gains the 
resource icon.
While you are engaged with at least 2 enemies, add 1 additional resource to Amarthiúl's resource pool when you collect resources during the resource phase.
"The heirs of Elendil do not forget all things past..."
–Aragorn, The Return of the King
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Cannot have restricted attachments.
Enters play exhausted.
Response: After Beechbone is declared as an attacker, deal 1 damage to him to deal X damage to the defending enemy. X is the amount of damage on Beechbone.
Action: Choose and ready a sentinel character.
Valour Action: Ready all sentinel characters.
Aragorn and Boromir did not heed the command, but still held their ground, side by side, behind Gandalf at the far end of the bridge.
–The Fellowship of the Ring
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Response: After Lindir enters play, if you have less than 3 cards in your hand, draw until you have 3 cards in your hand.
"To sheep other sheep no doubt appear different," laughed Lindir. "Or to shepherds. But Mortals have not been our study. We have other business."
–The Fellowship of the Ring
Attach to a quest card in play. Limit 1 per quest.
Response: After attached quest card is defeated, each player either draws 2 cards or heals up to 5 damage from among characters he controls.
"...for ere the fall of Nargothrond or Gondolin I passed over the mountains, and together through ages of the world we have fought the long defeat."
–Galadriel, The Fellowship of the Ring
Attach to a player's threat dial. Limit 1 per player.
Forced: When you would be eliminated by reaching your threat elimination level, instead discard Favor of the Valar and reduce your threat to 5 less than your threat elimination level. You are not eliminated.
"...their hearts were lifted up in such a hope as they had not known since the darkness came out of the East..."
–The Return of the King
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Action: Discard a card from your hand to add 1 resource to a Noldor's resource pool, or to Aragorn's resource pool. (Limit once per round.)
...the light of stars was in her bright eyes, grey as a cloudless night; yet queenly she looked, and thought and knowledge were in her glance, as of one who has known many things that the years bring.
–The Fellowship of the Ring
Action: Choose a hero. Until the end of the phase, the chosen hero does not exhaust to attack or defend.
Valour Action: Choose a player. Until the end of the phase, each of that player's heroes do not exhaust to attack or defend.
These three were unscathed, for such was their fortune and the skill and might of their arms...
–The Return of the King
Elven-light can only be played from your discard pile.
Action: Return Elven-light to your hand from your discard pile. Then, draw 1 card.
Then Aragorn was abashed, for he saw the elven–light in her eyes and the wisdom of many days...
–The Return of the King
Attach to a character.
Quest Action: Discard Grappling Hook and exhaust attached character to commit attached character to the quest, using its instead of its (or instead of its if the current quest has the siege keyword).
Response: After an enemy is declared as an attacker against you, declare an exhausted character you control as the defender. Resolve that effect again for each copy of Anchor Watch currently in your discard pile (all chosen characters are defending against this attack).
Attach to Círdan the Shipwright or Gandalf.
Attached character gains a 
resource icon.
Action: Exhaust Narya and attached character to choose and ready up to 2 allies. Each of those allies gets +1 and +1 until the end of the phase.
"For this is the Ring of Fire, and with it you may rekindle hearts in a world that grows chill."
–Círdan, The Return of the King
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Glorfindel can be played from your discard pile.
Action: Discard a card from your hand to ready Glorfindel. (Limit once per phase.)
"He is an Elf-lord of a house of princes."
–Gandalf, The Fellowship of the Ring
Action: Choose a player. That player searches the top 5 cards of his deck for a card, adds it to his hand, and shuffles his deck. Then, the players as a group may spend 3 resources to have that player search his deck for another card, add it to his hand, and shuffle his deck.
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As an additional cost to play Guardian of Rivendell from your hand, you must discard 2 cards from your hand.
"Indeed there is a power in Rivendell to withstand the might of Mordor, for a while."
–Gandalf, The Fellowship of the Ring
Attach to a Warrior character. Raiment of War counts as 2 Restricted attachments.
Attached character gets +1 +1 and +2 hit points.
Now men came bearing raiment of war from the king's hoard...
–The Two Towers
Play only if you control a Noldor hero.
Action: Choose a non-unique enemy. Until the end of the phase, treat the chosen enemy's printed text box as if it were blank (except for Traits).
"...seeing an Elf–lord revealed in his wrath, they were dismayed, and their horses were stricken with madness."
–Gandalf, The Fellowship of the Ring
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Response: After Ered Luin Miner is discarded from your deck, put it into play under your control.
Tools were to be found in plenty that the miners and quarriers and builders of old had used; and at such work the dwarves were still very skilled.
–The Hobbit
Play only before the staging step.
Quest Action: Exhaust a hero you control to immediately declare it as an attacker (and resolve its attack) against any eligible enemy target. Then, the players as a group may spend 1 
resource to commit that hero to the quest.
Fey he seemed, or the battle-fury of his fathers ran like new fire in his veins...
–The Return of the King
Attach to a location. Limit 1 per location
Response: After a player plays a Silvan ally from his hand, place 1 progress on attached location.
He made his end of the rope fast about another tree, and then ran lightly along it, over the river and back again, as if he were on a round.
–The Fellowship of the Ring
Action: Choose an enemy with an attached Trap card. Look at the top X cards of the encounter deck, where X is that enemy's printed 
. You may discard 1 of those cards. Return the rest to the top of the deck, in the same order.
Response: After you declare a Noble character as a defender against an attack made by an engaged enemy, return that enemy to the staging area. Then, cancel the attack.
So great a power and royalty was revealed in Aragorn...that many of the wild men paused, and looked back over their shoulders to the valley, and some looked up doubtfully at the sky.
–The Two Towers
Action: Choose a player. Each enemy engaged with that player gets -1 until the end of the phase. Then, the players as a group may spend 2
resources to have the chosen player draw 1 card each time he attacks and destroys an enemy this phase.
"Good!" said Legolas. "But my count is now two dozen. It has been knife–work up here." –The Two Towers
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Cannot attack or defend.
Action: Spend 1 resource and exhaust Ioreth. Then, heal 3 points of damage on a character. Any player may trigger this action.
Thus spake Ioreth, wise–woman of Gondor: The hands of the king are the hands of a healer, and so shall the rightful king be known.
–The Return of the King
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Combat Action: Spend 1 resource from Prince Imrahil's resource pool to search the top 5 cards of your deck for an ally who shares at least 1 Trait with him, and put that ally into play. Shuffle your deck. At the end of the phase, if that ally is still in play, shuffle it into your deck. (Limit once per round.)
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Knight of the White Tower's resource cost must be paid from a single hero's resource pool.
"...to be only a man of arms of the Guard of the Tower of Gondor is held worthy in the City, and such men have honour in the land." –Beregond, The Return of the King
Response: When an enemy attacks a player, that player may declare up to 3 eligible characters as defenders against this attack. Then, the players as a group may spend 2 resources to ready each defending character that takes no damage from this attack.
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Response: After Guardian of Ithilien enters play, return an enemy engaged with you to the staging area.
From such men the Lord Denethor chose his forayers.to harry the Orcs and other enemies that roamed between the Ephel Dúath and the River.
–The Two Towers
Attach to Prince Imrahil.
Price Imrahil gains the Outlands trait.
While you control Outlands allies that belong to 4 different spheres, add 1 additional resource to Prince Imrahil's resource pool when you collect resources during the resource phase (if Prince Imrahil is a hero).
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While there is a side quest in the victory display, Halfling Bounder gains:"Response: Discard Halfling Bounder to cancel the 'when revealed' effects of an encounter card that was just revealed from the encounter deck."
"The Bounders have never been so busy before."
–Sam Gamgee, The Fellowship of the Ring
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While there is a side quest in the victory display, Vigilant Dúnadan does not exhaust to defend.
"I don't think we've rightly understood till now what they did for us."
–Barliman Butterbur, The Return of the King
Play only if you control a unique character with the Noble trait and another unique character with the Scout trait.
Response: After a player engages an enemy, reduce his threat by X, where X is that enemy's printed
...the Captains of the West were well warned by their scouts...
–The Return of the King
Action: Deal X damage to an enemy engaged with you. X is the number of side quests in the victory display.
...the tides of fate had turned against them and their doom was at hand. –The Return of the King
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You may use resources from Kahliel's resource pool to pay for Harad ally cards of any sphere.
Action: Discard a Harad ally from your hand to ready a Harad character in play. (Limit once per phase.)
...the Southrons were bold men and grim...
–The Return of the King
“Soon there will be battle on the fields. A sortie must be made ready.”
–Gandalf, The Return of the King
Limit 1 copy of Prepare for Battle in the victory display.
While this quest is in the victory display, the first player draws an additional card during the resource phase.
Response: At the beginning of the quest phase, search the top 5 cards of the encounter deck for an enemy and put it into play engaged with you. Then, reveal 1 less encounter card this phase (to a minimum of 0). Shuffle the encounter deck.
"We must press our Enemy, and no longer wait upon him for the move."
–Aragorn, The Return of the King
Attach to a Dwarf character. Limit 1 per character.
Response: After a card is discarded from your deck, exhaust Dwarf Pipe to place that card on the bottom of your deck.
He held a small pipe with a wide flattened bowl...
–The Two Towers