Attach to a character. Restricted.

Response: Exhaust A Burning Brand to cancel a shadow effect just triggered during an attack that attached character is defending.

"Keep close to the fire, with your faces outward!" cried Strider. "Keep some of th elonger sticks ready in your hands."
–The Fellowship of the Ring

Attach to a hero.

Attached hero gains a resource icon.

It sit beside the fire and think
of all that I have seen,
of meadow–flowers and butterflies
in summers that have been
–The Fellowship of the Ring

Grimbeorn the Old does not exhaust to defend against Troll enemies.

If Grimbeorn the Old has 8 or more resource tokens on him, he joins the first player as an ally.

Action: Spend 1 resource to place that resource on Grimbeorn the Old.

While Louis is engaged with a player, all Troll enemies gain

"Forced: After this enemy attacks, the defending player must raise his threat by 3."

Response: After defeating Louis, you may choose and discard 1 “Sacked!” card from play.

While Morris is engaged with a player, all Troll enemies get +1

Response: After defeating Morris, you may choose and discard 1 “Sacked!” card from play.

While Stuart is engaged with a player, all Troll enemies get +1

Response: After defeating Stuart, you may choose and discard 1 “Sacked!” card from play.

Forced: After Rupert attacks, shuffle all copies of the “Sacked!” card from the discard pile back into the encounter deck.

Response: After defeating Rupert, you may choose and discard 1 “Sacked!” card from play.

Forced: If Muck Adder damages a character, discard that character from play.

Shadow: Defending character gets -1 for the duration of this attack.

Immune to player card effects.

Players cannot travel to The Carrock except through quest card effects.

While The Carrock is the active location, Troll enemies get +1 and +1

While it is in the staging area, River Langflood gets +1 for each Troll enemy in play.

Response: After you travel to Bee Pastures, search the encounter deck and discard pile for Grimbeorn the Old and add him to the staging area. Then, shuffle the encounter deck.

While Oak-wood Grove is the active location, resource tokens from any sphere may be spent as resource tokens.

When Revealed: Each player raises his threat by the total of all cards in the staging area. Any player may choose to discard from play 1 Creature card he controls to cancel this effect.

Then, one of the ponies took fright at nothing and bolted. –The Hobbit

When Revealed: Attach to a hero with no “Sacked!” cards attached controlled by the first player. (Cannot be canceled.) Counts as a Condition attachment with the text:

Attached hero cannot attack, defend, commit to a quest, trigger its effect, or collect resources.

Shadow: If attacking enemy is a Troll resolve this card's 'when revealed' effect.

When Revealed: Destroy all heroes with the card “Sacked!” attached. Then, shuffle Roasted Slowly back into the encounter deck.

Shadow: If attacking enemy is a Troll remove 2 damage tokens from it.

Response: After a character leaves play, ready Prince Imrahil. (Limit once per round.)

But beyond, in the great fief of Belfalas, dwelt Prince Imrahil in his castle of Dol Amroth by the sea, and he was of high blood, and his fold also, tall men and proud with sea-grey eyes. –The Return of the King.

Attach to a hero.

Attached hero gains +1

Action: Pay 1 resource from attached hero's pool to attach Dúnedain Quest to another hero.

Action: Move any number of resource tokens from a hero's resource pool to any other hero's resource pool.

Inside the hall there was piled a large assortment of packages and parcels and small articles of furniture. –The Fellowship of the Ring

Sentinel. Landroval cannot have restricted attachments.

Response: After a hero card is destroyed, return Landroval to his owner's hand to put that hero back into play, with 1 damage token on it. (Limit once per game.)

Response: After an ally is destroyed, exhaust 1 Eagle character to move that ally from the discard pile to its owner's hand.

The pale peaks of the mountains were coming nearer, moonlit spikes of rock sticking out of black shadows. –The Hobbit

While committed to a quest, Escort from Edoras gets +2

Forced: After resolving a quest to which Escort from Edoras was committed, discard Escort from Edoras from play.

Attach to a location.

Response: After attached location is explored, the first player draws 3 cards.

The Mathom-house it was called; for anything that Hobbits had no immediate use for, but were unwilling to throw away, they called a mathom. Their dwellings were apt to become rather crowded with mathoms... –The Fellowship of the Ring

Ranged. Sentinel.

"But there are some of us still who 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

Action: Move any number of damage from one enemy to another.

That's cursed rebel-talk, and I'll stick you, if you don't shut it down, see? –Orc Soldier, The Return of the King

Radagast collects 1 resource each resource phase. These resources can be used to pay for Creature cards played from your hand.

Action: Spend X resources from Radagast's pool to heal X wounds on any 1 Creature.

"I have an urgent errand. My news is evil."

Guarded.

Action: Exhaust a hero to claim this objective if it has no encounters attached. Then, attach Athelas to that hero.

No attachments. The first player gains control of Wilyador.

Forced: At the end of each round, Wilyador suffers 2 damage.

Wilyador cannot be healed of more than 5 wounds by a single effect. If Wilyador leaves play, the players have lost the game.

X is the number of players in the game.

While Rhosgobel is in the staging area, Wilyador cannot be healed.

Travel: Players must complete stage one of this quest before they can travel to Rhosgobel.

Response: After the players explore Forest Grove, search the encounter deck and discard pile for 1 Athelas objective, and add it to the staging area. Then, shuffle the encounter deck.

When Revealed: Deal 2 damage to each exhausted character.

Shadow: Deal 1 damage to each exhausted character.

When Revealed: Deal 1 damage to each character without any attachments.

Shadow: If a character (including Wilyador) has more damage than each other character, deal 3 additional damage to that character.

When Revealed: Deal 2 damage to each wounded character.

Shadow: Deal 1 damage to each wounded character. (2 damage instead if this attack is undefended.)

Only Eagle characters or characters with ranged can attack or defend against Mirkwood Flock.

Shadow: If this attack is undefended, the damage must be placed on Wilyador.

Only Eagle characters or characters with ranged can attack or defend against Black Forest Bats.

Shadow: If this attack is undefended, the damage must be placed on Wilyador

Ranged.

Response: After Brand son of Bain attacks and defeats an enemy engaged with another player, choose and ready one of that player's characters.

"The grandson of Bard the Bowman rules them, Brand son of Bain son of Bard."
–Glóin, The Fellowship of the Ring

Response: After Keen-eyed Took enters play, reveal the top card of each player's deck.

Action: Return Keen-eyed Took to your hand to discard the top card of each player's deck.

Then something Tookish woke up inside him...
–The Hobbit

Quest Action: Discard a ally to give each hero committed to this quest +1 until the end of the phase.

In the dark at the rear, grim and silent, walked Aragorn.
–The Fellowship of the Ring

Descendant of Thorondor cannot have restricted attachments.

Response: After Descendant of Thorondor enters or leaves play, deal 2 damage to any 1 enemy in the staging area.

Action: Choose an Eagle ally. Return that character to its owner's hand.

Not event an eagle poised against the sun would have marked the hobbits sitting there, under the weight of doom...
–The Two Towers

Action: Exhaust and discard The Riddermark’s Finest to place 2 progress tokens on any location.

"And there are no horses like the ones that are bred in that great vale between the Misty Mountains and the White."
–Gandalf, The Fellowship of the Ring

Action: Discard a Rohan ally to choose a location. Place 3 progress tokens on that location.

"Death! Ride, ride to ruin and the world's ending!"
–Éomer, The Return of the King

Action: Exhaust Gildor Inglorion to look at the top 3 cards of your deck. Switch one of those cards with a card from your hand. Then, return the 3 cards to the top of your deck, in any order.

"Go not to the Elves for counsel, for they will say both no and yes." –Frodo Baggins, The Fellowship of the Ring

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

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

"The wide world is all about you: you can fence yourselves in, but you cannot for ever fence it out."
–Gildor, The Fellowship of the Ring

Attach to a hero.

Attached hero gains a resource icon.

The Road goes ever on and on
Down from the door where it began.
Now far ahead the road has gone,
And I must follow, if I can.
–The Fellowship of the Ring