Play only if each of your heroes is a Hobbit.

Combat Action: Enemies engaged with you do not attack this round. You cannot declare attacks this round.

They possessed from the first the art of disappearing swiftly and silently, when large folk whom they do not wish to meet come blundering by...
–The Fellowship of the Ring

If each of your heroes has a printed resource icon, Knight of Minas Tirith gains:

Response: After Knight of Minas Tirith enters play, choose an enemy in the staging area. Engage that enemy and exhaust Knight of Minas Tirith to declare it as attacker (and resolve its attack) against that enemy.

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.

Play only if you control at least 1 Ranger character.

Action: Deal 3 damage to an enemy with at least 1 Trap card attached to it.

"For coming unbidden to this play death is our law." –Anborn, The Two Towers

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: Choose a Silvan or Noldor ally you control. That ally gets +2 until the end of the phase. At the end of the phase, shuffle that ally into its owner's deck if it is still in play.

"For deep in the hears of all my kindred lies the sea–longing, which it is perilous to stir"
–Legolas, The Return of the King

Attach to a Gondor hero.

While attached hero has at least 1 resource in its resource pool, Gondor characters get +1

"...still the lords of Gondor have keener sight than lesser men..." –Denethor, The Return of the King

Attach to a Rohan character. Restricted.

Attached character gets +1 (+2 instead if attacking an enemy in the staging area).

Right through the press drove Théoden Thengel's son, and his spear was shivered as he threw down thier chieftan. –The Return of the King

Action: Choose a hero. Until the end of the phase, that hero gets +1 for each resource in its resource pool.

An Elven–maid there was of old.
A shining star by day:
Her mantle white was hemmed with hold,
Her shoes of silver–grey.
–The Fellowship of the Ring

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.

Attach to a hero.

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

Action: Discard Scroll of Isildur 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.

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

Action: Lower the cost of the next card you play from your hand this round by 1. That card gains Doomed 1. (Limit once per round.)

"Let your counsellor Gríma keep all things till your return – and I pray that we may see it, though no wise man will deem it hopeful." –The Two Towers

Doomed 3.

At the end of the round, discard Saruman from play.

Response: After Saruman enters play, choose a non-unique enemy or location in the staging area. While Saruman is in play, the chosen enemy or location is considered to be out of play.

Response: After you raise your threat from the Doomed keyword, ready Orthanc Guard.

"...the keepers of the gate were on the watch for me and told me that Saruman awaited me." –Gandalf, The Fellowship of the Ring

Response: After you raise your threat from the Doomed keyword, Isengard Messenger gets +1 until the end of the round. (Limit twice per round.)

"I have an urgent errand," he said. "My news is evil." –Radagast, The Fellowship of the Ring

Attach to a hero.

While attached hero is ready, shadow cards dealt to enemies engaged with you are dealt face up. (Shadow card effects are still resolved when resolving enemy attacks.)

...one of them uncovered a small lamp that gave out a slender silver beam. –The Fellowship of the Ring

Attach to a hero.

Response: After you raise your threat from the Doomed keyword, exhaust Keys of Orthanc to add 1 resource to attached hero's resource pool.

"He has the Key of Orthanc" –Gandalf, The Two Towers

Doomed 1.

Action: Search your deck for a card with the Doomed keyword and add it to your hand. Shuffle your deck.

"...alone it could do nothing but see small images of things far off and days remote." –Gandalf, The Two Towers

Response: After a Silvan ally enters play, that ally gets +1 +1 and +1 until the end of the round.

"...the lord of the Galadhrim is accounted wisest of the Elves of Middle–earth, and a giver of gifts beyond the power of kings." –Galadriel, The Fellowship of the Ring

Attach to a or Rohan hero. Restricted.

Attached hero gets +1 (+2 instead if attached hero is Éomer).

Response: After attached hero attacks alone, exhaust Firefoot to choose a non-unique enemy engaged with you. Excess damage dealt by this attack is assigned to the chosen enemy.

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.)

Limit 1 per deck. Attach to a hero.

Response: When attached hero is destroyed, add The Fall of Gil-Galad to the victory display to reduce your threat by X, where X is the attached hero's threat cost.

...for into darkness fell his star
in Mordor where the shadows are.
–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

Ranged.

Response: After you play Rúmil from your hand, choose an enemy engaged with a player. Deal X damage to that enemy where X is the number of ranged characters you control.

...the Company set out again, guided now by Haldir and his brother Rúmil. –The Fellowship of the Ring

Action: Choose a player. That player may choose 1 card from his hand and add it to another player's hand. At the end of the round, if the chosen card is in that player's hand or in play, shuffle it into its owner's deck.

"But we have heard rumours of your coming, for the messengers of Elrond passed by Lórien on the way home up the Dimrill Stair. –Haldir, The Fellowship of the Ring

Ranged.

Combat Action: If you have not engaged an enemy this round, exhaust Haldir of Lórien to declare him as an attacker (and resolve his attack) against an enemy not engaged with you. Limit once per round.

"We allow no strangers to spy out the secrets of the Naith..." –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

Attach to a hero.

Action: Exhaust O Lórien! to lower the cost of the next Silvan ally played this phase by 1 (to a minimum of 1).

"I sang of leaves, of leaves of gold, and
leaves of gold there grew:
Of wind I sang, a wind there came and in the
branches blew." –Galadriel, 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

Sentinel.

Response: After a Silvan ally you control leaves play, ready Defender of the Naith.

"We have been keeping watch on the rivers, ever since we saw a great troop of Orcs going North toward Moria..." –Haldir, The Fellowship of the Ring

Action: Return a Silvan ally you control to your hand to reduce your threat by X where X is the printed cost of the ally returned to your hand.

"...we dare not by our own trust endanger our land. We live now upon an island amid many perils..."
–Haldir, The Fellowship of the Ring

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.)

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. 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 hero with sentinel.

Response: After attached hero defends against an attack and takes no damage while defending that attack, exhaust The Day’s Rising to add 1 resource to the attached hero's resource pool.

Out of doubt, out of dark to the day's rising
I came singing in the sun, sword unsheathing.
–Éomer, The Return of the King

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

Response: When an encounter card is revealed but before resolving any of that card's keywords or "when revealed" effects, choose a character committed to the quest. Ready that character and remove it from the quest.

"Don't be hasty, that is my motto." –Treebeard, 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.

Response: After Sarn Ford Sentry enters play, draw 1 card for each enemy engaged with you.

"Lonely men are we, Rangers of the wild, hunters but hunters ever of the servants of the Enemy..." –Aragorn, The Fellowship of the Ring

Play only if you control a Dúnedain hero.

Planning Action: Shuffle 1 of your set aside Ranger of the North allies with the encounter keyword into the encounter deck. Then, remove Ranger Summons from the game.

"We rode as swiftly as we might when your summons came." –Halbarad, The Return of the King

Play only before the resolving enemy attacks step.

Combat Action: Choose an enemy not engaged with you. Engage that enemy. Then, discard a shadow card from that enemy, if able.

"Many evil things there are that your strong walls and bright swords do not stay." –Aragorn, The Fellowship of the Ring

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

Attach to an enemy. Limit 1 per enemy.

Attached enemy gets -1 .

Response: When attached enemy is destroyed, reduce each player's threat by the attached enemy's printed .

"If simple folk are free from care and fear, simple they will be, and we must be secret to keep them so." –Aragorn, The Fellowship of the Ring

Attach to a Dúnedain or Noldor hero. Limit 1 per hero.

While you are engaged with an enemy, attached hero gets +1 and cannot have its reduced.

...each cloak was pinned upon the left shoulder by a brooch of silver shaped like a rayed star. –The Return of the King