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Action: Exhaust Denethor to look at the top card of the encounter deck. You may move that card to the bottom of the deck.
"And the lord Denethor is unlike other men: he sees far."
–Beregond, The Return of the King
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Action: Exhaust Henamarth Riversong to look at the top card of the encounter deck.
"And I reckon there's Elves and Elves. They're all elvish enough, but they're not all the same."
–Sam Gamgee,
The Fellowship of the Ring
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Response: After Longbeard Elder commits to a quest, look at the top card of the encounter deck. If that card is a location, place 1 progress token on the current quest. Otherwise, Longbeard Elder gets -1 until the end of the phase.
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Action: Exhaust Henamarth Riversong to look at the top card of the encounter deck.
"And I reckon there's Elves and Elves. They're all elvish enough, but they're not all the same."
-Sam Gamgee,
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.
Action: Add Command
UNRECOGNIZED TYPE: lore
to the victory display to choose up to X options, where X is its level:• Remove X resources from a non-unique enemy.
• Add 2 resources to each Círdan's Blessing.
• Add the bottom card of your deck to your hand.
• Look at the top 10 cards of the encounter deck, discard any number of them, and shuffle it.
Quest Action: Look at the top 5 cards of the encounter deck. Put any number of those cards on top of the encounter deck and the rest on the bottom in any order. The hero with Master of the Hunt attached gets +3 until the end of the phase.
Soft is the grass, and let foot be like feather!
–The Hobbit
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Action: Exhaust Denethor to look at the top card of the encounter deck. You may move that card to the bottom of the deck.
"And the lord Denethor is unlike other men: he sees far."
–Beregond, The Return of the King
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Action: Exhaust Henamarth Riversong to look at the top card of the encounter deck.
"And I reckon there's Elves and Elves. They're all elvish enough, but they're not all the same."
–Sam Gamgee,
The Fellowship of the Ring
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Action: Exhaust Henamarth Riversong to look at the top card of the encounter deck.
"And I reckon there's Elves and Elves. They're all elvish enough, but they're not all the same."
–Sam Gamgee, The Fellowship of the Ring
Action: Look at the top card of the encounter deck. Then, you may pay 1 
resource to return Rumour from the Earth to your hand.
'Where sight fails the earth may bring us rumour,' said Aragorn. 'The land must groan under their hated feet.' –The Two Towers
Action: Raise your threat by 1 to look at the top card of the encounter deck. Then, reduce your threat by X, where X is the threat of that card.
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Response: After Longbeard Elder commits to a quest, look at the top card of the encounter deck. If that card is a location, place 1 progress token on the current quest. Otherwise, Longbeard Elder gets -1 until the end of the phase.
Action: Look at the top 3 cards of the encounter deck. You may select 1 card and move it to the bottom of the encounter deck. Return any unselected cards to the top of the encounter deck, in any order.
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.
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Response: After Ithilien Lookout enters play, look at the top card of the encounter deck. If it is an enemy, you may discard it.
All had swords at their sides... –The Two Towers
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Response: After Celduin Traveler enters play, look at the top card of the encounter deck. If it is a location, you may discard it.
In two days going they rowed right up the Long Lake and passed out into the River Running... –The Hobbit
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.
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Response: After Firyal commits to the quest, look at the top card of the encounter deck. Then, you may discard the looked at card.
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Response: After Cautious Halfling enters play, look at the top card of the encounter deck. If that card is not an enemy, draw a card.
"I thought I had been both careful and clever."
–Frodo, The Fellowship of the Ring
Action: Look at the top 5 cards of the encounter deck. Put them back in the same order.
...Legolas was standing, gazing northwards into the darkness, thoughtful and silent as a young tree in a windless night.
–The Two Towers
Action: Exhaust a hero you control to shuffle the encounter deck and look at its top card. Place progress tokens on the current quest equal to the revealed card's . Then, put that card back on top of the encounter deck.
As they worked the ravens brought them constant tidings. –The Hobbit