Response: At the beginning of the quest phase, search the top 5 cards of the encounter deck for an enemy and put it into play engaged with you. Then, reveal 1 less encounter card this phase (to a minimum of 0). Shuffle the encounter deck.

"We must press our Enemy, and no longer wait upon him for the move."
–Aragorn, The Return of the King

Sentinel.

Response: After Jubayr exhausts to defend an attack, discard 1 facedown shadow card from a non-unique enemy. (Limit once per phase.)

Attach to a Dwarf character. Limit 1 per character.

Response: After a card is discarded from your deck, exhaust Dwarf Pipe to place that card on the bottom of your deck.

He held a small pipe with a wide flattened bowl...
–The Two Towers

Response: After Firyal commits to the quest, look at the top card of the encounter deck. Then, you may discard the looked at card.

Play only if you control a unique character with the Ranger trait and another unique character with the Warrior trait.

Response: After you engage an enemy, that enemy cannot attack you until the end of the round.

Thurindir gets +1 for each side quest in the victory display.

Setup: Search your deck for a side quest and add it to your hand. Shuffle your deck.

"He is one of the wandering folk – Rangers we call them."
–Barliman Butterbur, The Fellowship of the Ring

Attach to a hero. Limit 1 per hero.

Attached hero gains the Warrior trait.

Response: After you play Mighty Warrior from your hand, draw a card.

Gimli hewed the legs from another that had sprung up on Balin's tomb.
–The Fellowship of the Ring

Play only if you control a unique character with the Noble trait and another unique character with the Ranger trait.

Response: After a hero you control participates in an attack that destroys an enemy, add X resources to that hero's pool. X is the just destroyed enemy's printed

Forced: After this ally enters play, search the top 5 cards of the encounter deck for a non-unique location and add it to the staging area. If no location enters play by this effect, discard Dúnedain Pathfinder. Shuffle the encounter deck.

Response: After Hirgon quests successfully, play a ally from your hand, reducing its cost by 1 (to a minimum of 1). Then, you may raise your threat by 1 to give that ally +1 and +1 until the end of the round.

"Hirgon I am, errand–rider of Denethor, who bring you this token of war."
–The Return of the King

Attach to a Harad character. Restricted.

Attached character gets +1 .

Response: After attached character is declared as an attacker, it gets +3 for this attack. After this attack resolves, discard Haradrim Spear.

Limit 1 per deck. Attach to a Gondor hero.

Attached hero gets +1

Valour Response: After attached hero quests successfully, add The Red Arrow to the victory display to search the top 5 cards of your deck for an ally and put it into play.

"The Red Arrow has not been seen in the Mark in all my years!"
–Théoden, The Return of the King

Attach to a hero. Limit 1 per hero.

Attached hero gains the Ranger trait.

Response: After you play Doughty Ranger from your hand, draw a card.

...he went forth clad only in rusty green and brown, as a Ranger of the wilderness.
–The Fellowship of the Ring

Response: After Fastred defends an enemy attack, return that enemy to the staging area to reduce your threat by 2. (Limit once per phase.)

"King's man! King's man!" his heart cried within him.
–The Return of the King

Defender of Cair Andros gets +X where X is the tens digit of your threat. (Limit +4

Valour Response: After Defender of Cair Andros is declared as a defender, deal 1 damage to the attacking enemy.

Play only if you control a unique character with the Rohan trait and another unique character with the Gondor trait.

Response: At the beginning of the combat phase, you resolve the step in which you attack enemies before resolving enemy attacks this phase. (Each other player resolves the combat phase as normal after you resolve your attacks.)

Attach to a hero. Limit 1 per hero.

Attached hero gains the Scout trait.

Response: After you play Fearless Scout from your hand, draw a card.

...he got right up to the fire–for fire it was–without disturbing anyone. –The Hobbit

Attach to a Dúnedain character. Limit 1 per character.

Action: Exhaust Dúnedain Pipe and place a card from your hand on the bottom of your deck to draw a card.

He had a tall tankard in front of him, and was smoking a long–stemmed pipe curiously carved.
–The Fellowship of the Ring

Attach to a hero. Limit 1 per hero.

Attached hero gains the Noble trait.

Response: After you play Diligent Noble from your hand, draw a card.

As long as you do not have cards in your hand, Eregion Survivor gets +1 +1 and +1

Attach to a hero. Restricted.

Attached hero gets +1 for each side quest in the victory display (Limit +3 .)

...glad would he have been to know its fate who wrought it slowly long ago in the North-kingdom when the Dúnedain were young...
–The Return of the King

Action: Search the top 10 cards of your deck for a Weapon or Armor attachment and add it to your hand. Shuffle your deck.

Valour Action: Search the top 5 cards of your deck for a Weapon or Armor attachment and put it into play. Shuffle your deck.

Response: After Beorning Guardian participates in an attack that destroys an enemy, discard Beorning Guardian to place X progress on a location, where X is the destroyed enemy's printed

"...if it were not for the Beornings, the passage from Dale to Rivendell would long ago have become impossible."
–Glóin, The Fellowship of the Ring

Play only if you control a Noldor or Silvan hero.

Planning Action: Shuffle a set aside Wind from the Sea into the encounter deck. Then, remove Flight to the Sea from the game.

"...they may pass to the Sea unhindered and leave the Middle–earth forever."
–Haldir, The Two Towers

Attach to a hero. Limit 1 per hero and 1 per deck.

Action: Exhaust Magic Ring and raise your threat by 1 to (choose 1): heal 1 damage from attached hero, add 1 resource to attached hero's pool, or ready attached hero.

"In Eregion long ago many Elven–rings were made, magic rings as you call them, and they were, of course, of various kinds..."
–Gandalf, The Fellowship of the Ring

Reduce the cost to play Weapon attachments on Warrior of Dale by 1.

Warrior of Dale gets +1 and gains ranged while it has a Weapon attachment.

Attach to a Dale or Warrior character. Restricted.

Response: After attached character is declared as an attacker, exhaust Bow of Yew to deal 1 damage to the defending enemy.

“They would shoot at us with their great bows of yew...”
–The Lord of the Eagles, The Hobbit

Response: After a character is declared as an attacker or defender against an enemy with an attachment, that character gets +3 and +3 until the end of this attack.

"Dwarf–mail may be good, but they will soon be hard put to it."
–Bard the Bowman, The Hobbit

Sentinel.

Response: After Grimbeorn the Old defends an attack, spend 1 resource from his pool to declare him as an attacker against that enemy (and resolve his attack). The defending enemy gets -2 for this attack.

Guardian of Esgaroth gets +1 +1 +1 and +1 hit point for each different player card attachment it has. (Limit +3 to each.)

The men of the lake–town Esgaroth were mostly indoors, for the breeze was from the black East and chill, but a few were walking on the quays, and watching...
–The Hobbit

Response: At the beginning of the quest phase, search the top 5 cards of the encounter deck for a location and make it the active location, returning any previous active location to the staging area. Then, reveal 1 less encounter card this phase (to a minimum of 0). Shuffle the encounter deck.

Response: After a Beorning character is declared as an attacker or defender against an enemy, that enemy gets -2 and -2 until the end of the phase.

Swiftly he returned and his wrath was redoubled, so that nothing could withstand him, and no weapon seemed to bite upon him. –The Hobbit

Guarded (enemy or location).

Attach to a hero or Gandalf. Restricted.

Attached character gets +2 .

Response: After attached character destroys an enemy, draw 1 card.

Attach to a location with no progress tokens on it.

While attached location is the active location, reduce its quest point value to 1.

It was a path made by strong arms and heavy feet.
–The Fellowship of the Ring

Action: Return an Eagle ally to your hand to shuffle a set-aside Eagle of the North into the encounter deck. Then, remove Flight of the Eagles from the game.

Behind them in long swift lines came all their vassals from the northern mountains, speeding on a gathering wind.
–The Return of the King

Cannot have attachments.

Planning Action: Attach Wild Stallion to an ally you control. (Counts as a Mount attachment with the text: "Restricted. Limit 1 per ally. Attached ally gets +1 +1 +1 and +1 hit point.")

Travel Action: Choose a location in the staging area with a player card attachment and make it the active location, returning any previous active location to the staging area. Reduce each player's threat by X, where X is the number of attachments on the active location.

South away! and South away!
Seek the sunlight and the day.
–The Hobbit

Encounter. Surge.

Cannot have restricted attachments.

When Revealed: The first player chooses a player to take control of Eagle of the North. The chosen player may choose and discard a non-unique enemy in the staging area.

Guarded (enemy or location).

Attach to a hero. Restricted.

Attached hero gets +2 .

Response: After attach hero destroys an enemy, add 1 resource to attached hero's pool.

Forest Road Traveler gets +1 +1 and +1 for each attachment on the active location.

Only on the Road would travellers be found...
–The Fellowship of the Ring

Attach to a or Ranger character. Limit 1 per character.

Response: After a Location is revealed from the encounter deck, exhaust Leather Boots to ready attached character.

His legs were stretched out before him, showing high boots of supple leather the fitted him well...
–The Fellowship of the Ring

Cannot have attachments.

Action: Ready Giant Bear. At the end of the phase in which you trigger this effect, shuffle Giant Bear into your deck. (Limit once per phase.)

"As a bear he ranged far and wide"
–Gandalf, The Hobbit

Play into your play area unattached.

If unattached, attach to the next eligible enemy that engages you.

Response: After attached enemy resolves its attack, ready the defending character.

Cannot attack or defend.

Response: After Galion enters play, he gets +1 until the end of the round.

"Here am I waiting and waiting down hero, while you fellows drink and make merry and forget your tasks. Small wonder if I fall asleep from weariness!"
–The Hobbit

While Dáin Ironfoot is defending, he gains,"Action: Discard the top card of your deck to give Dáin Ironfoot +1 for this attack. (Limit 3 times per phase.)"

"The time of my thought is my own to spend."
–The Fellowship of the Ring

Action: Discard the top 3 cards from your deck to ready Soldier of Erebor. (Limit once per round.)

Attach to a or Warrior character. Restricted.

Limit 1 per character.

Attached character gets +1 for each enemy engaged with you. (Limit +3

He gripped tighter on the hilt of his sword and went on doggedly.–The Fellowship of the Ring

Response: After a character you control attacks and destroys an enemy, exhaust a Weapon attached to that character to ready that character and give it +2 for its next attack this phase.

The sword is sharp, the spear is long,
The arrow swift, the Gate is strong.
–The Hobbit

Guarded (enemy or location).

Attach to a Dwarf hero.

Action: Exhaust Ring of Thrór and discard the top card of your deck to ready attached hero. If the discarded card is an attachment, put it into play.

Combat Action: Return Gaffer Gamgee to your hand to choose an enemy with engagement cost higher than your threat. Until the end of the round, that enemy cannot attack you.

"Why? Why's none of my business, or yours."
–The Fellowship of the Ring