Action: Pay 1 resource from Glorfindel's pool to heal 1 damage on any character. (Limit once per round.)

"You saw him for a moment as he is upon the other side: one of the mighty of the firstborn."
–Gandalf, The Fellowship of the Ring

Action: Pay 1 resource from a hero's resource pool to add 1 resource to Bifur's resource pool. Any player may trigger this ability. (Limit once per round.)

"And winter comes after autumn." – Bifur, The Hobbit

Response: After Thorin Stonehelm is declared as an attacker, discard the top card of your deck to deal 1 damage to an enemy engaged with you.

Thorin III Stonehelm, Dain's son, became King under the mountain.
–The Return of the King

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

Response: After Gandalf enters play, (choose 1): draw 3 cards, deal 4 damage to 1 enemy in play, or reduce your threat by 5.

Ranged.

Response: After Legolas participates in an attack that destroys an enemy, draw 1 card.

"He stands not alone," said Legolas, bending his bow and fitting an arrow with hands that moved quicker than sight.
–The Two Towers

Ranged. Sentinel.

"But there are some of use who still go abroad for the gathering of news and the watching of our enemies, and they speak the languages of other lands."
–The Fellowship of the Ring

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

Response: After Elrond enters play, choose one: heal all damage on a hero, discard a Condition attachment, or each player draws 1 card.

Response: After Azain Silverbeard participates in an attack that destroys an enemy, spend 1 resource to deal 2 damage to another enemy that shares a Trait with the destroyed enemy. Any player may trigger this response.

Response: After Mablung enters play, choose an enemy to get +5 enagement cost until the end of the round. Then, you may engage that enemy, or return it to the staging area

"But still we will not sit idle and let Him do all as He would."
–The Two Towers

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

Cannot attack or defend.

Action: Spend 1 resource to exhaust Ioreth. Then, heal 3 points of damage from a character. Any player may trigger this action.

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

Response: After you play Erebor Hammersmith, return the topmost attachment in any player's discard pile to his hand.

"In Erebor in the Kingdom of Dain there is such skill..."
–Aragorn, The Return of the King

Ranged.

Response: After Galadhon Archer enters play, deal 1 damage to an enemy not engaged with you.

"...you breathe so loud that they could shoot you in the dark."
–Legolas, The Fellowship of the Ring

Response: After Galadhrim Minstrel enters play, search the top 5 cards of your deck for an event card and add it to your hand. Shuffle the other cards back into your deck.

...the language was of Elven–song and spoke of things little now in Middle–earth.
–The Fellowship of the Ring

"And the Enemy must pay dearly for the crossing of the River."
–Denethor, The Return of the King

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

Response: After Envoy of Pelargir enters play, add 1 resource to a Gondor or Noble hero's resource pool.

Attach to a hero. Restricted.

Response: After a character is destroyed, add 1 resource to attached hero's pool.

"Slow should you be to wind that horn again, Boromir," said Elrond, "until you stand once more on the border of your land, and dire need is on you."
–The Fellowship of the Ring

Attach to the active location. Attached location gets +1 quest point.

Response: After attached location leaves play as an explored location, the first player puts 1 ally into play from his hand.

Attach to a Dwarf character. Restricted.

Attached hero gains +1

Response: After attached character attacks, deal 1 damage to the defending character.

Attach to a hero. Restricted.

Attached hero gets +1 when attacking an Orc.

Response: After attached hero attacks and destroys an enemy, place 1 progress token on the current quest.

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.

Attach to a quest card in play. Limit 1 per quest.

Response: After attached quest is defeated, each player either draws 2 cards or heals up to 5 damage from among characters he controls.

"...through the ages of the world we have fought the long defeat."
–Galadriel, The Fellowship of the Ring

Play during the Quest phase, before characters are commited to the Quest.

Action: Reveal 1 less card from the encounter deck this phase. (To a minimum of 1.)

Combat Action: Choose an enemy engaged with a player. That enemy cannot attack that player this phase.

A few brave men were strung before them to make a feint of resistance, and many there fell before the rest drew back and fled to either side.
–The Hobbit

Quest Action: Choose a location in the staging area. Until the end of the phase, that location does not contribute its

...Beorn advised them to take this way; for at a place a few days' ride due north of the Carrock was the gate of a little–known pathway through Mirkwood... –The Hobbit

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

Action: Exhaust a Dwarf character to place 2 progress tokens on the active location. (4 progress tokens instead if it is an Underground or Mountain location.)

"There is a land where our fathers worked of old..."
Gimli, The Fellowship of the Ring

Action: Choose a Dwarf character. Until the end of the phase, that character gets +3 .

Down from the wall leapt Gimli with a fierce cry the echoed in the cliffs. "Khazâd! Khazâd!" He soon had work enough.
–The Two Towers

Action: Draw 2 cards. Then, discard 1 card for your hand.

"These are Daeron's Runes, such as were used of old in Moria..."
–Gandalf, 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 Fellowship of the Ring

While it is engaged with you, Spiders of Mirkwood gets +1 for each exhausted character you control.

Shadow: Choose and exhaust 1 character you control. If this attack was undefended, also deal that character 2 damage.

Forced: After Gret Spider engages you, exhaust a character you control.

Shadow: Deal 1 damage to an exhausted character you control.

While The Eaves of Mirkwood is the active location, encounter card effects cannot be canceled.

By the afternoon they had reached the eaves of Mirkwood, and were resting almost beneath the great overhanging boughs of its outer trees.
–The Hobbit

X is the number of locations in the staging area.

Travel: Each player must discard 1 random card from his hand to travel here.

Response: After you travel to Forest Gate the first player draws 2 cards.

Soon the light in the gate was like a little bright hole far behind, and the quiet was so deep that their feet seemed to thump along while the trees leaned over them and listened.
–The Hobbit

Quest Action: Search the encounter deck and discard pile for a Spider enemy and put it into play engaged with you to discard Spider Den. (Any player may trigger this effect.)

Travel: Reveal the top card of the encounter deck to travel here.

Response: When Goblin Trail leaves play as an explored location, place 6 progress on the current quest.

When Revealed: Each enemy and each location currently in the staging area gets +1 until the end of the phase. If there are no cards in the staging area, Driven by Shadow gains surge.

Shadow: Choose and discard 1 attachment from the defending character. (If this attack is undefended, discard all attachments you control.)

When Revealed: Each player returns 1 enemy engaged with him to the staging area. If no enemy was returned to the staging area this way, Surprising Speed gains surge and doomed 1.

Shadow: Attacking enemy gets +1 Return attacking enemy to the staging area after this attack.

When Revealed: The player with the highest threat level attached this card to one of his heroes. (Counts as a Condition attachment with the text: "Attached hero does not ready during the refresh phase unless you pay 2 resources from that hero's pool.")

Cannot have attachments.

While Goblin Troop is engaged with you, each other Goblin enemy engaged with you gets +1 and +1

Shadow: Attacking enemy gets +2

During the encounter phase, players cannot optionally engage Goblin Sniper if there are other enemies in the staging area.

Forced: If Goblin Sniper is in the staging area at the end of the combat phase, each player deals 1 point of damage to 1 character he controls.

Surge.

Shadow: Attacking enemy makes an additional attack immediately after this one. (Deal a new shadow card for that attack.)

When Revealed: Discard the top card of each player's deck. Until the end of the phase, increase Goblintown Savengers' by the total printed cost of all cards discarded in this way.

When Revealed: Each player must search the encounter deck and discard pile for a Goblin enemy and put it into play, engaged with him. Then, shuffle the encounter deck. (This effect cannot be canceled.)

Shadow: Attacking enemy gets +1 for each Goblin enemy engaged with you.

Doomed 1.

When Revealed: Each player must choose: Either raise your threat by 1 for each questing character you control, or discard a questing character you control.

Shadow: If this attack is undefended, discard an ally you control.

X is the stage number of the quest.

Cannot take damage. Cannot have attachments.

Forced: After Goblin Chieftain attacks, either remove X progress from the quest, or return it to the staging area.

While Cracked Pillar is in the staging area, it gains: "The first player may declare an attack against Cracked Pillar during the combat phase as if it was an enemy engaged with him. Use Cracked Pillar's as its during this attack."

Travel: Remove 4 damage from Cracked Pillar to travel here.