


Play only if you control a unique character with the Ranger trait and another unique character with the Warrior trait.
Response: After you engage an enemy, that enemy cannot attack you until the end of the round.







Thurindir gets +1 for each side quest in the victory display.
Setup: Search your deck for a side quest and add it to your hand. Shuffle your deck.
"He is one of the wandering folk – Rangers we call them."
–Barliman Butterbur, The Fellowship of the Ring



Play only if the main quest has no keywords.
Action: Remove X progress from the main quest to place X progress on a location in the staging area.
"Well," said Boromir, "when heads are at a loss bodies must serve..."
–The Fellowship of the Ring



Play only if you control a unique character with the Warrior trait and another unique character with the Scout trait.
Response: After the players have committed characters to the quest, discard a non-unique enemy in the staging area. Then, reveal an encounter card.



Limit 1 per deck. Attach to a Gondor hero.
Attached hero gets +1
Valour Response: After attached hero quests successfully, add The Red Arrow to the victory display to search the top 5 cards of your deck for an ally and put it into play.
"The Red Arrow has not been seen in the Mark in all my years!"
–Théoden, The Return of the King



“I called for the help of the Dúnedain, and their watch was doubled...”
–Gandalf, The Fellowship of the Ring
Limit 1 copy of Keep Watch in the victory display.
While this quest is in the victory display, each non-unique enemy engaged with a player gets -1 .







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 gives us scornful names."
–Aragorn, The Fellowship of the Ring



Play only if you control a unique character with the Rohan trait and another unique character with the Gondor trait.
Response: At the beginning of the combat phase, you resolve the step in which you attack enemies before resolving enemy attacks this phase. (Each other player resolves the combat phase as normal after you resolve your attacks.)



Attach to a Dúnedain character. Limit 1 per character.
Action: Exhaust Dúnedain Pipe and place a card from your hand on the bottom of your deck to draw a card.
He had a tall tankard in front of him, and was smoking a long–stemmed pipe curiously carved.
–The Fellowship of the Ring







Folco Boffin gets -1 threat cost for each Hobbit hero you control.
Action: Discard Folco Boffin to reduce your threat by 7. (Limit once per game for the group.)
...he had many friends, especially among the younger generation of Hobbits (descendants mostly from Old Took)
–The Fellowship of the Ring














Response: After Riddermark Knight is declared as an attacker, it gets +2 for this attack. At the end of this attack, discard Riddermark Knight.







Cannot have restricted attachments. Enters play exhausted.
Leaflock gets +1 for each damaged Ent you control (limit +4









Cannot have restricted attachments.
Action: Deal 2 damage to Quickbeam to ready him. (Limit once per phase.)
"...he can move like a wind when he is roused."
–Pippin, The Two Towers







Response: After Beorning Guardian participates in an attack that destroys an enemy, discard Beorning Guardian to place X progress on a location, where X is the destroyed enemy's printed
"...if it were not for the Beornings, the passage from Dale to Rivendell would long ago have become impossible."
–Glóin, The Fellowship of the Ring



Play into your play area unattached.
While unattached, attach to the next eligible enemy that engages you.
While attached enemy is engaged with you, reduce the total in the staging area by X, where X is attached enemy's printed







Response: After Emyn Arnen Ranger commits to the quest, choose an enemy with a Trap attachment. Until the end of the phase, Emyn Arnen Ranger gets +X where X is the chosen enemy's printed


Attach to a hero. Limit 1 per hero and 1 per deck.
Action: Exhaust Magic Ring and raise your threat by 1 to (choose 1): heal 1 damage from attached hero, add 1 resource to attached hero's pool, or ready attached hero.
"In Eregion long ago many Elven–rings were made, magic rings as you call them, and they were, of course, of various kinds..."
–Gandalf, The Fellowship of the Ring














Action: Exhaust Long Lake Trader to move an Item attachment from a character you control to another eligible character.
"Nowhere are there any men so friendly to us as the Men of Dale."
–Glóin, The Fellowship of the Ring



Attach to a Dale or Warrior character. Limit 1 per character.
Attached character gets +1 (and +1 hit point if attached character has the sentinel keyword).
Each one of his folk was clad in hauberk of steel mail that hung to his knees...
–The Hobbit



Attach to a Dale or Esgaroth hero.
Planning Action: Exhaust King of Dale to reduce the cost of the next Dale ally you play this phase by 1 for each different player attachment on attached hero. That ally does not require a resource match.
Then Bard II, Brand's son, became King of Dale..
–The Return of the King



Attach to a Dale or Scout character. Limit 1 per character.
Response: After attached character commits to the quest, place 1 progress on the active location.
"You are come to the very edge of the Wild..."
–Gandalf, The Hobbit


Attach to a hero.
Attached hero gets +2 and collects an additional resource during the resource phase.
...the necklace of Girion, Lord of Dale, made of five hundred emeralds green as grass, which he gave for the arming of his eldest son...–The Hobbit



Planning Action: Choose a Dale hero you control. Add 1 resource to its pool for each character you control with a player attachment. You can only play 1 copy of Traffic from Dale each round.
The talk was all of the trade that came and went on the waterways and the growth of the traffic on the river...
The Hobbit



Response: After a character is declared as an attacker or defender against an enemy with an attachment, that character gets +3 and +3
until the end of this attack.
"Dwarf–mail may be good, but they will soon be hard put to it."
–Bard the Bowman, The Hobbit



Planning Action: Choose a ready player attachment on a character you control. Return that attachment to its owner's hand to reduce the cost of the next attachment played this phase by X, where X is the chosen attachment's cost.



Response: At the beginning of the quest phase, search the top 5 cards of the encounter deck for a location and make it the active location, returning any previous active location to the staging area. Then, reveal 1 less encounter card this phase (to a minimum of 0). Shuffle the encounter deck.



Attach to a or Scout character. Limit 1 per character.
Encounter Action: Exhaust attached character and discard Grey Cloak to choose a non-unique enemy in the staging area. That enemy does not make engagement checks against you this phase.







Cannot have restricted attachments.
Response: After Meneldor enters or leaves play, place 2 progress on a location.
...Meneldor young and swift. –The Return of the King



Attach to a Silvan hero.
Action: Exhaust The Elvenking and return a Silvan ally you control to your hand to ready attached hero.
In a great hall with pillars hewn out of the living stong sat the Elvenking on a chair of carven wood.
–The Hobbit







Cannot have attachments.
Action: Ready Giant Bear. At the end of the phase in which you trigger this effect, shuffle Giant Bear into your deck. (Limit once per phase.)
"As a bear he ranged far and wide"
–Gandalf, The Hobbit



Play into your play area unattached.
If unattached, attach to the next eligible enemy that engages you.
Response: After attached enemy resolves its attack, ready the defending character.






While there is at least 1 side quest in the victory display, ready Thalion at the beginning of the combat phase.
While there are at least 3 side quests in the victory display, Thalion loses the ally card type, gains the hero card type and the resource icons of each sphere on a side quest in the victory display.







While Dáin Ironfoot is defending, he gains,"Action: Discard the top card of your deck to give Dáin Ironfoot +1 for this attack. (Limit 3 times per phase.)"
"The time of my thought is my own to spend."
–The Fellowship of the Ring







Reduce the cost to play Mirkwood Hunter by 1 for each attachment on the active location.
...they were brave and well–armed and even the Wargs dared not attack them if there were many together...
–The Hobbit



Attach to an ally.
Attached ally does not exhaust to quest.
–The Hobbit


Attach to a Dwarf hero.
Action: Exhaust Ring of Thrór and discard the top card of your deck to ready attached hero. If the discarded card is an attachment, put it into play.



Action: Return a Silvan ally you control to your hand to choose a hero. Add 1 resource to that hero's pool.
...soon Haldir turned aside into the trees and halted on the bank of the river under their shadows.
–The Fellowship of the Ring







Combat Action: Return Gaffer Gamgee to your hand to choose an enemy with engagement cost higher than your threat. Until the end of the round, that enemy cannot attack you.
"Why? Why's none of my business, or yours."
–The Fellowship of the Ring







Cannot have attachments.
Response: Discard Loyal Hound to cancel up to 2 damage just dealt to a hero you control.



You must use resources from 3 different heroes' pools to pay for this card.
Combat Action: Choose and discard a non-unique enemy in the staging area.
...it seemed they could hear the noise of a great hunt going by to the north of the path...
–The Hobbit



Action: Choose an attachment with a printed cost of X in any player's discard pile and play that attachment for no cost. (The chosen attachment can belong to any sphere of influence.)
The Sword of Elendil was forged anew by Elvish smiths... –The Fellowship of the Ring







Response: After Merry enters play, each unique ally you control gets +1 until the end of the round.
"Shire–folk have been so comfortable so long they don't know what to do. They just want a match, though, and they'll go up in fire."
–The Return of the King







Pippin gets +2 while attacking an enemy with an engagement cost higher than your threat.
Response: After you engage an enemy with an engagement cost higher than your threat, ready Pippin.
"Down on your knees in the road and ask pardon, or I will set this troll's bane in you!"
–The Return of the King







Response: After Faramir enters play, choose a non-unique enemy in the staging area. Engage that enemy and deal 2 damage to it (4 damage instead if it has an attachment on it).
"There will be hard handstrokes nigh at hand ere the day is full."
–The Two Towers



Play only after staging step.
Quest Action: You may declare and resolve an attack against each non-unique enemy in the staging area as if it were engaged with you.
Panic came upon the Goblins; and even as they turned to meet this new attack, the elves charged again with renewed numbers.
–The Hobbit






When Revealed: Choose a player. That player gains control of Tom Bombadil, ready and committed to the quest. At the end of the round, remove Tom Bombadil and a copy of Tom Bombadillo! in the victory display from the game. This effect cannot be cancelled.