Attach to a Hobbit hero. Restricted.
While attached hero is committed to the quest, each Hobbit character gets +1 
Response: After you quest successfully, exhaust Red Book of Westmarch to add 1 resource to attached hero's resource pool.
You cannot choose more than 2 heroes during setup.
Setup: Choose a non-neutral unique ally from your deck and put it into play. Add the sum of that ally's printed , 
, 
, and hit points to your starting threat. Then, flip this card over and attach it to that ally.
“I am a messenger of the King,” he said. “You are speaking to the King's friend, and one of the most renowned in all the lands of the West.”
–Pippin, The Return of the King
Attached ally loses the ally card type and gains the hero card type.
Attached character cannot be readied more than once per phase.
Messenger of the King is immune to card effects while attached character is in play. If attached character leaves play, remove Messenger of the King from the game.
Attach to a Warrior character.
Attached character gains ranged and sentinel.
Then he leapt forward, spurring the earth, and was gone like the north wine from the mountains.
–The Two Towers.
Attach to a hero. Restricted.
Attached character gets +2 .
Response: After attached hero destroys an Orc enemy, add 1 resource to that hero's resource pool.
"This, Thorin, the runes name Orcrist, the Goblin–cleaver in the ancient tongue of Gondolin; it was a famous blade." –Elrond, The Hobbit
Attach to a hero. Restricted.
Attached hero gets +2 .
Response: After attached hero attacks and destroys an enemy, deal 1 damage to another enemy engaged with you.
Royal indeed did Thorin look, clad in a coat of gold–plated rings, with a silver hafted axe... –The Hobbit
Attach to a hero. Restricted.
Attached hero gains Ranged.
When making a ranged attack, attached hero gets +2 .
Thorin seized a bow of horn and shot an arrow at the speaker. –The Hobbit
Attach to a hero.
Attached hero gets +1 (+2 instead if attacking an enemy with an engagement cost higher than your threat).
...these blades were forged many long years ago by Men of Westernesse: they were foes of the Dark Lord...
–The Fellowship of the Ring
Attach to a Rohan hero. Restricted.
Response: After attached hero is declared as a defender, exhaust Golden Shield to add attached hero's to its for this attack.
His golden shield was uncovered, and lo! it shone like an image of the Sun...
–The Return of the King
Your minimum deck size is 100 cards.
Your threat cannot be reduced by player card effects.
Action: Exhaust this card and raise your threat by 1 to look at the top 2 cards of your deck, draw 1, and place the other on the bottom of your deck.
Forced: When you would be eliminated by reaching your threat elimination level, flip this card over instead.
Your threat cannot be reduced by non-contract player card effects.
Heroes you control do not exhaust to quest.
Forced: When this card is flipped to this side, reduce your threat by 10. Search your deck for a card and either add it to your hand or play it, reducing its cost by 3. Shuffle your deck.
Thus came Aragorn... borne upon a wind from the Sea to the kingdom of Gondor...
–The Return of the King
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Response: After Longbeard Orc Slayer enters play, deal 1 damage to each Orc enemy in play.
Five dead Orcs lay there. They had been hewn with many cruel strokes, and two had been beheaded. The ground was wet with their dark blood.
–The Two Towers
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Response:After a Dwarf hero you control leaves play, put Brok Ironfist into play from your hand.
...there is no knowing what a Dwarf will not dare and do for revenge and the recovery of his own.
–The Hobbit
Action: Exhaust 1 hero you control to choose and ready a different hero.
"We will make such a chase as shall be accounted a marvel among the Three Kindreds: Elves, Dwarves, and Men."
–Aragorn, The Two Towers
Response: After an ally card leaves play, that card's controller draws 2 cards.
"He fell defending the Hobbits, while I was away upon the hill."
–Aragorn, The Two Towers
Action: Ready all character cards in play.
"If there is only one way, then I must take it. What comes after must come." –Frodo Baggins, The Two Towers
Action: Choose a character. Until the end of the phase, that character gains +1 and +1 .
Throwing back his cloak, he laid his hand on the hilt of a sword that had hung concealed by his side. They did not dare to move.
–The Fellowship of the Ring
Action: Exhaust a character you control with the ranged keyword to choose a player. Deal 1 damage to each enemy engaged with that player.
Arrows thick as the rain came whistling over the battlements, and fell clinking and glancing on the stones. Many found their mark. –The Two Towers
Action: Exhaust a character you control to immediately declare it as an attacker (and resolve its attack) against any eligible enemy target.
"...for he that strikes the first blow, if he strikes it hard enough, may need to strike no more." –Gandalf, The Two Towers
You must use resources from 3 different heroes' pools to pay for this card.
Action: Choose a player. That player's engaged enemies cannot attack that player this phase.
Without a word or cry, suddenly, the Riders halted. A thicket of spears were pointed towards the strangers...
–The Two Towers
Action: Reduce one player's threat by 6, or reduce each player's threat by 2.
"Welcome to Caras Galadhan!" he said. "Here is the city of the Galadhrim where dwell the Lord Celeborn and Galadriel the Lady of Lórien."
–The Fellowship of the Ring
Response: Cancel a shadow effect just triggered during combat.
'The hasty stroke goes oft astray,' said Aragorn. 'We must press our Enemy, and no longer wait on him for the next move.'
–The Return of the King
Action: Choose a player. Shuffle that player's discard pile back into his deck. Remove Will of the West from the game.
"If Gondor has such men still in these days of fading, great must have been its glory in the days of its rising."
–Legolas, The Return of the King
Response: Cancel the “when revealed” effects of a card that was just revealed from the encounter deck.
"There is naught that you can do, other than to resist, with hope or without it"
–Elrond, The Fellowship of the Ring
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Response: After Miner of the Iron Hills enters play, choose and discard 1 Condition attachment from play.
...while the four dwarves sat around the table, and talked about mines and gold and troubles with goblins...
–The Hobbit
Action: Choose a character. Heal all damage from that character.
"...understanding, making and healing...These things the Elves of Middle–earth have in some measure gained, though with sorrow."
–Elrond, The Fellowship of the Ring
Action: Choose a player. That player draws 3 cards.
"That is the fairest of all the dwellings of my people. There are no trees like the tress of that land."
–Legolas, The Fellowship of the Ring
Quest Action: Choose an enemy in the staging area. Until the end of the phase, that enemy does not contribute its 
"Radagast is, of course, a worthy Wizard, a master of shapes and changes of hue; and he has much lore of herbs and beasts, and birds are especially his friends." –Gandalf, The Fellowship of the Ring
Action: Look at the top X cards of any player's deck, add 1 of those cards to its owner's hand, and return the rest to the top of the deck in any order.
"Less welcome did the Lord Denethor show me then than of old, and grudgingly he permitted me to search among his hoarded scrolls and books."
–Gandalf, The Fellowship of the Ring
Action: Choose a player. Heal all damage on each hero controlled by that player.
"...and my house is open to you, if ever you come back this way again."
–Beorn, The Hobbit
Only one copy of Mendor's Support can be played each round.
Action: Mendor gets +2 , +2 , and +2 until the end of the round.
When playing this card, choose one:
Quest Action: Remove No Time to Waste! from the game and from the Campaign Pool to reduce each player's threat by 3. Reveal the top card of the encounter deck.
Quest Action: Draw 1 card.
When playing this card, choose one:
Action: Remove Ranger Sense from the game and from the Campaign Pool to look at the top 4 cards of your deck. Add 1 to your hand and put the rest back in any order.
Action: Draw 1 card.
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Response: After Ered Nimrais Prospector enters play, discard the top 3 cards of your deck. Then, choose and shuffle 1 card from your discard pile back into your deck.
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Response: After Miner of the Iron Hills enters play, choose and discard 1 Condition attachment from play.
...while the four dwarves sat around the table, and talked about mines and gold and troubles with goblins...
–The Hobbit
Attach to a 
hero.
Action: Discard Healing Herbs and exhaust attached hero to heal all damage on 1 character.
Attach to a Dwarf hero.
Action: Exhaust Narvi's Belt to give attached hero a 
, , 
or 
icon until the end of the phase.
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 only if you control a Noldor or Silvan hero. Attach to a hero.
Action: Discard Lembas to ready attached hero and heal 3 damage from it.
"...it is more strengthing than any food made by Men, and it is more pleasant than cram, by all accounts. -Lórien Elf, The Fellowship of the Ring
Response: Cancel the “when revealed” effects of a card that was just revealed from the encounter deck.
"There is naught that you can do, other than to resist, with hope or without it"
–Elrond, The Fellowship of the Ring
Action: Draw 2 cards. Then, discard 1 card from your hand.
"These are Daeron's Runes, such as were used of old in Moria..."
-Gandalf, The Fellowship of the Ring
Action: If you control a unique Noldor character, give another character +1 until the end of the phase and lower your threat by 3.
"Believe rather that it is so ordered that we, who sit here, and none others, must now find counsel for the peril of the world."
–Elrond, The Fellowship of the Ring
Combat Action: Return a Silvan ally you control to your hand to choose an enemy engaged with a player. That enemy cannot attack that player this phase.
"The three of us could not challenge a hundred, so we went ahead and spoke with feigned voices, leading them on into the wood." -Haldir, The Fellowship of the Ring
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
Action: Exhaust a character you control with ranged to immediately declare it as an attacker (and resolve its attack) against an enemy in the staging area. It gets +1 during this attack.
"We live now upon an island amid perils, and our hands are more often upon thr bowstring than upon the harp."
–Haldir, The Fellowship of the Ring
Action: Return a Silvan ally you control to your hand to choose a player. Deal 1 damage to each enemy engaged with that player.
The marauding orcs had been waylaid and almost all destroyed; the remnant had fled westward towards the mountains, and were being pursued. -The Fellowship of the Ring
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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
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Lower the cost to play Citadel Custodian by 1 for each Gondor ally in play.
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Response: After Pelargir Ship Captain enters play, move 1 resource from the resource pool of a hero you control to another hero's resource pool.
Action: Ready a defending Gondor character. That character gets +1 until the end of the phase.
...seven walls of stone so strong and old that it seemed to have been not builded by carven by giants out of the bones of the earth. –The Return of the King
Action: Each player whose threat is 40 or higher readies all characters he controls.
While your threat is less than 40, reduce the cost to play Pillars of the Kings by 4.
Action: Set your threat to 40. If this effect raised your threat, draw a card (draw 4 cards instead if it raised your threat by 10 or more).
"Behold the Argonath, the Pillars of the Kings!"
–Aragorn, The Fellowship of the Ring