Attach to a 
hero. Restricted.
Response: After a card is discarded from your hand, exhaust Silver Harp to return that card to your hand.
Elrond wore a mantle of grey and had a star upon his forehead, and a silver harp was in his hand... –The Return of the King
Attach to Saruman. Restricted.
Action: Exhaust Saruman’s Staff to (choose 1): Reduce the X value of the next Doomed X. event you play this phase by 2, or search the top 5 cards of your deck for a Doomed event and add it to your hand. Shuffle your deck.)
His hand clutched his heavy black staff like a claw.
–The Two Towers
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1
1
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10
Response: After Snowbourn Scout enters play, choose a location. Place 1 progress token on that location.
...he saw not a shadow, nor a blur, but the small figures of horsemen, many horsemen, and the glint of morning on the tips of their spears was like the twinkle of minute stars beyond the edge of mortal sight.
–The Two Towers
Attach to a character.
Action: Exhaust Self Preservation to heal 2 points of damage from attached character.
...how much more of this would they have to endure, or could they endure?
–The Two Towers
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0
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3
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
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1
1
1 ★
10
Response: After Snowbourn Scout enters play, choose a location. Place 1 progress token on that location.
...he saw not a shadow, nor a blur, but the small figures of horsemen, many horsemen, and the glint of morning on the tips of their spears was like the twinkle of minute stars beyond the edge of mortal sight.
–The Two Towers
Attach to a character.
Action: Exhaust Self Preservation to heal 2 points of damage from attached character.
...how much more of this would they have to endure, or could they endure?
–The Two Towers
Attach to a hero.
Attached hero gains a 
resource icon.
From the ashes a fire shall be woken,
A light from the shadows shall spring:
Renewed shall be blade that was broken,
The crownless again shall be king.
–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
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
Attach to a hero.
Action: Exhaust Song of Mocking to choose another hero. Until the end of the phase, attached hero takes all damage assigned to the chosen hero.
Old fat spider spinning in a tree!
Old fat spider can't see me!
Attercop! Attercop!
Won't you stop. Stop your spinning and look for me!
-Bilbo Baggins, The Hobbit
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5
Response: After a Silvan character readies during the refresh phase, heal 1 damage from that character.
"The Wood–elves tracked him first, an easy task for them, for his trail was still fresh then." –Gandalf, The Fellowship of the Rings
Attach to a hero.
Attached hero gains a 
resource icon.
We go, we go, we go to war, to hew the stone and break the door. –The Two Towers
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0
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6
Forced: After a character leaves play, discard Silvan Refugee from play.
"The Elves have their own labours and their own sorrows..."
–Gildor, The Fellowship of the Ring
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1
3
3 ★
5
Attach to a hero.
Response: After Song of Eärendil enters play, draw 1 card.
Response: After another player raises his threat, raise your threat by 1 to reduce that player's threat by 1.
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0
1
2 ★
6
Forced: After a character leaves play, discard Silvan Refugee from play.
"The Elves have their own labours and their own sorrows..."
–Gildor, The Fellowship of the Ring
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2
1
0
2
4 ★
3
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
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4
While the top card of your discard pile is an event, Sailor of Lune gets +1 and gains: "Cannot be damaged while committed to the quest."
"They are sailing, sailing, sailing over the Sea, they are going into the West and leaving us," said Sam, half chanting the words, shaking his head sadly and solemnly.
–The Fellowship of the Ring
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3
Action: Spend 1 resource to exhaust Súlien. Then, each location in the staging area gets -1
until the end of the phase. Any player may trigger this action.
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3 ★
2
Response: When you play an event, give it Doomed 1. to draw a card. You cannot trigger this ability if you have already triggered the ability of a Steward of Orthanc this round.
"...the power of Orthanc cannot be lightly thrown aside..."
–Saruman, The Two Towers
Attach to a hero. Limit 1 per hero.
Action: Spend 1 resource from attached hero's pool to give attached hero +1 until the end of the phase. (Limit 3 times per phase.)
"I will not say the Day is done.
nor bid the Stars farewell."
–Sam Gamgee, The Return of the King
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
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
Attach to the hero with The One Ring.
Limit 1 per hero. Attached hero gets +1
Response: After attached hero is declared as an attacker, exhaust The One Ring and raise your threat by 1 to double attached hero's printed for this attack.
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When a player card effect would reduce your threat by any amount, reduce that amount to 1.
While playing an event with the printed doomed keyword, Saruman gains the printed , , and icons.
Response: After you play a card with the doomed keyword, ready Saruman.
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2
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1
Response: After a player raises his threat from the doomed keyword, give control of Soldier of Isengard to that player.
Attach to a hero. Limit 1 per hero.
Action: Discard 1 card from your hand to heal 1 damage from attached hero. Any player may trigger this effect.
...behind him stood Galadriel, tall and white: a circlet of golden flowers was in her hair, and in her hand she held a hard, and she sang.
–The Fellowship of the Ring
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1
When a player card effect would reduce your threat by any amount, reduce that amount to 1.
While playing an event with the printed doomed keyword, Saruman gains the printed , , and icons.
Response: After you play a card with the doomed keyword, ready Saruman.
Attach to a hero. Limit 1 per hero.
Action: Discard 1 card from your hand to heal 1 damage from attached hero. Any player may trigger this effect.
...behind him stood Galadriel, tall and white: a circlet of golden flowers was in her hair, and in her hand she held a hard, and she sang.
–The Fellowship of the Ring
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
Attach to a character. Restricted.
Limit 1 per character.
Response: After attached character is declared as a defender, deal 1 damage to the attacking enemy.
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
Attach to a hero. Restricted.
While attacking or defending against an enemy, attached hero gets +1 and +1 if that enemy shares a Trait with an enemy in the victory display.
Response: After attached hero attacks and destroys an enemy, add that enemy to the victory display. (Limit once per game.)
Attach to a or Noldor hero. Restricted.
Response: After attached hero commits to a quest, discard a card from your hand to place 2 progress on the active location.
In the dusk its headstall flickered and flashed, as if it were studded with gems like living stars.
–The Fellowship of the Ring
Attach to a Dúnedain or Gondor hero. Restricted.
Attached hero gets +1 .
Response: After attached hero participates in an attack that destroys an enemy with 5 or more printed hit points, exhaust Sword of Númenor to add 1 resource to attached hero's resource pool.
...the flowing characters of Númenor glinted like fire upon the blade.
–The Fellowship of the Ring
Attach to a Dúnedain or Ranger hero. Restricted.
Response: After you engage an enemy, exhaust Steed of the North to ready attached hero.
Their horses were strong and of proud bearing, but rough-haired...
–The Return of the King
Attach to an ally. Restricted.
Limit 1 per ally.
Attached ally gets +2 hit points.
“There are no great weapon-hoards here, lord,” answered Éomer. “Maybe a light helm might be found to fit him...”
–The Return of the King
Attach to a Hobbit hero. Restricted
Attach hero gets +1 , +1 , and +1 .
Response: After attached hero is declared as an attacker or defender against an enemy, deal 1 damage to that enemy.
Attach to a hero. Limit 1 per hero.
Attached hero gets +2
His hair was dark as the shadows of twilight, and upon it was set a circlet of silver...
–The Fellowship of the Ring
Guarded (location). Restricted.
Attach to a hero. Attached hero gets +2
You draw 1 additional card during the resource phase.
Looking up he saw before him a tall white tower, standing alone on a high ridge. A great desire came over him to climb the tower and see the Sea.
–The Fellowship of the Ring
Attach to a Noble hero. Limit 1 per hero.
Attached hero gets +1 (+2 instead if your threat is 40 or higher).
...his shinning shield was scored with runs...
–The Fellowship of the Ring
Attach to Bilbo Baggins. Restricted.
Bilbo Baggins gets +1 +1 and +1 .
Response: After Bilbo Baggins exhausts to defend, discard the top card of the encounter deck. Deal damage to the attacking enemy equal to the discarded card's .
"I shall call you Sting." –Bilbo, The Hobbit
Attach to a Hobbit hero.
Attached hero gets +1 +1 and +1 .
Response: After attached hero exhausts to defend an attack, discard the top card of the encounter deck. Deal damage to the attacking enemy equal to the discarded card's .
Attach to a Gondor or Hobbit hero. Restricted.
Response: After attached hero exhausts to defend an attack from an enemy with engagement cost higher than your threat, exhaust Staff of Lebethron to discard a shadow card from that enemy.
"They are made of the fair tree lebethron, beloved of the woodwrights of Gondor..." –Faramir, The Two Towers
Attach to a Rohan hero. Restricted.
If attached hero is Théoden, Snowmane loses the restricted keyword.
Response: After attached hero quests successfully, ready attached hero.
Suddenly the king cried to Snowmane and the horse sprang away. –The Return of the King
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Response: After Son of Arnor enters play, choose an enemy card in the staging area or currently engaged with another player. Engage that enemy.
...and the North-realm they made in Arnor, and the South-realm in Gondor above the mouths of Anduin.
–The Fellowship of the Ring
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3
"We have been keeping watch on the rivers, ever since we saw a great troop of Orcs going north towards Moria, along the skirts of the mountains, many days ago."
–Haldir of Lórien, The Fellowship of the Ring
Action: Put 1 ally card into play from your hand. At the end of the phase, if that ally is still in play, return it to your hand.
There is a seed of courage hidden (often deeply, it is true) in the heart of the fattest and most timid hobbit, waiting for some final and desperate danger to make it grow.
–The Fellowship of the Ring
Attach to a hero.
Attached hero gains the Gondor trait.
Action: Exhaust Steward of Gondor to add 2 resources to attached hero's resource pool.
"It was commanded yesterday."
–Denethor, The Return of the King
Response: After a character is declared as a defender, deal 2 damage to the attacking enemy.
A swift stroke she dealt, skilled and deadly.
–The Return of the King
Action: Choose a player. That player may declare any number of his eligible characters as defenders against each enemy attacking him this phase.
...and when the task was done, there they would come to an end, alone, houseless, foodless in the midst of a terrible desert. There could be no return. –The Return of the King
Response: After you travel to a location, exhaust a character to place 2 progress tokens on that location.
Then Aragorn lead the way, and such was the strength of his will in that hour that all the Dúnedain and their horses followed him.
–The Return of the King
Action: Choose an ally with a printed cost of X in any player's discard pile. Put that ally into play under your control. (The chosen ally can belong to any sphere of influence.)
"...we will fight on." –Boromir, The Fellowship of the Ring
QuestAction: 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
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3 ★
3
"We have been keeping watch on the rivers, ever since we saw a great troop of Orcs going north towards Moria, along the skirts of the mountains, many days ago."
–Haldir, The Fellowship of the Ring
Attach to a hero.
Attached hero gains the Gondor trait.
Action: Exhaust Steward of Gondor to add 2 resources to attached hero's resource pool.
Action: Put 1 ally card into play from your hand. At the end of the phase, if that ally is still in play, return it to your hand.
There is a seed of courage hidden (often deeply, it is true) in the heart of the fattest and most timid hobbit...
–The Fellowship of the Ring
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
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2
3 ★
3
Response: After Son of Arnor enters play, choose an enemy card in the staging area or currently engaged with another player. Engage that enemy.
...and the North-realm they made in Arnor, and the South-realm in Gondor above the mouths of Anduin.
–The Fellowship of the Ring
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1
3 ★
3
"We have been keeping watch on the rivers, ever since we saw a great troop of Orcs going north towards Moria, along the skirts of the mountains, many days ago."
–Haldir of Lórien, The Fellowship of the Ring
Action: Put 1 ally card into play from your hand. At the end of the phase, if that ally is still in play, return it to your hand.
There is a seed of courage hidden (often deeply, it is true) in the heart of the fattest and most timid hobbit, waiting for some final and desperate danger to make it grow.
–The Fellowship of the Ring
Attach to a hero.
Attached hero gains the Gondor trait.
Action: Exhaust Steward of Gondor to add 2 resources to attached hero's resource pool.
"It was commanded yesterday."
–Denethor, The Return of the King
Response: After a character is declared as a defender, deal 2 damage to the attacking enemy.
A swift stroke she dealt, skilled and deadly.
–The Return of the King
Action: Choose a player. That player may declare any number of his eligible characters as defenders against each enemy attacking him this phase.
...and when the task was done, there they would come to an end, alone, houseless, foodless in the midst of a terrible desert. There could be no return. –The Return of the King
Response: After you travel to a location, exhaust a character to place 2 progress tokens on that location.
Then Aragorn lead the way, and such was the strength of his will in that hour that all the Dúnedain and their horses followed him.
–The Return of the King
Action: Choose an ally with a printed cost of X in any player's discard pile. Put that ally into play under your control. (The chosen ally can belong to any sphere of influence.)
"...we will fight on." –Boromir, The Fellowship of the Ring
QuestAction: 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
Response: After a location is revealed from the encounter deck, immediately travel to that location without resolving its Travel effect. If another location is currently active, return it to the staging area.
"My cuts, short or long, don't go wrong." –Strider, The Fellowship of the Ring
Action: Each player returns the topmost attachment card from his discard pile to his hand.
...he was just sitting down to a nice little second–breakfast in the dinning–room...
–The Hobbit
Action: Move the top card of the encounter discard pile to the top of the encounter deck.
The wizard's face remained grave and attentive, and only a flicker in his deep eyes showed that he was startled and indeed alarmed. 'It has been called that before,' he said, 'but not by you.' –The Fellowship of the Ring
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3
Response: After Soldier of Gondor enters play, seach the top 5 cards of your deck for a Gondor ally and add it to your hand (any number of Gondor allies instead if your threat is 40 or higher). Shuffle your deck.
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1
1
1 ★
6
Response: After Squire of the Citadel leaves play, add 1 resource to a Gondor hero's resource pool.
As he spoke he struck a small silver gong that stood near his footstool, and at once servants came forward.
–The Return of the King
Attach to a hero.
Attached hero gains the Gondor trait.
Action: Exhaust Steward of Gondor to add 2 resources to attached hero's resource pool.
"It was commanded yesterday."
–Denethor, The Return of the King
Attach to a hero.
Attached hero gains a resource icon.
If attached hero is Aragorn, each character you control gets +1 .
"For the Sword that was Broken is the Sword of Elendil that broke beneath him when he fell."
–Aragorn, The Fellowship of the Ring
Response: After a location enters play, exhaust a Hobbit to shuffle that location back into the encounter deck. Then, reveal 1 card from the encounter deck and add it to the staging area.
"I suppose we haven't lost more than two days by my short cut through the Forest!"
–Frodo, The Fellowship of the Ring
Response: After a Hobbit hero you control exhausts to defend an attack, choose another enemy engaged with you and reveal the attacking enemy's shadow card. If that shadow card has no shadow effect, resolve this enemy's attack against the chosen enemy. If that shadow card has a shadow effect, resolve this attack as normal.
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1
1
1 ★
6
Response: After Squire of the Citadel leaves play, add 1 resource to a Gondor hero's resource pool.
As he spoke he struck a small silver gong that stood near his footstool, and at once servants came forward.
–The Return of the King
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.
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
Action: Ready a hero you control. Then, if your threat is 20 or less and this is the first time you played a copy of Swift and Silent this round, return this card to your hand instead of discarding it.
A marching host of Elves had come up silently...–The Fellowship of the Ring
You must use resources from 3 different heroes' pools to pay for this card.
Action: Discard each shadow card from each enemy in play.
At that moment he caught a flash of white and silver coming from the North, like a small star down on the dusky fields. –The Return of the King
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
Setup: Attach to a hero.
Attached hero gets +1
Planning Action: Play an attachment from your discard pile on attached hero. (LImit once per game.)
Strider made them take cover in a thicket at the side of the Road, while he went forward to explore. –The Fellowship of the Ring
Limit 1 per deck.
Response: When this stage is defeated, the first player searches the top X cards of the encounter deck for 1 non-objective card worth no victory points and adds it to the victory display. Put the remaining cards back in any order. X is the number of players in the game plus 4.
"Often the Rohirrim have aided us, but now the Lord Denethor asks for all your strength and all your speed..."
–Hirgon, The Return of the King
Limit 1 per deck.
Response: When this stage is defeated, each player may search the top 10 cards of his deck for an ally and put it into play under his control. Each player who did shuffles his deck.
Attach to a unique ally belonging to any sphere of influence.
Attached character loses the ally card type and gains the hero card type.
"But why, lord, did you receive me as sword–thain, if not to stay by your side?"
–Merry, The Return of the King
As an additional cost to play Skyward Volley, exhaust a ranged character you control.
Combat Action: Deal 2 damage to an enemy engaged with a player. Resolve that effect again for each copy of Skyward Volley currently in your discard pile (you may choose different targets).
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3
Reduce the cost to play Sam Gamgee by 2 if you control Frodo Baggins.
Response: After a player raises his threat, that player may spend 1 resource to ready Sam Gamgee. He gets +1 +1 and +1 until the end of the round. (Limit once per round.)
Response: After you commit characters to the quest, if each character you have commited to the quest is a Scout each of these characters gets +2 until the end of the phase.
Attach to a hero.
While you control 2 or fewer heroes, attached hero does not exhaust to commit to the quest.
While you control 5 or fewer characters, attached hero gets +2 .
"Strider can take you by paths that are seldom tridden. Will you have him?"
–Aragorn, The Fellowship of the Ring
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1
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3 ★
2
Response: After Soldier of Dol Amroth enters play, reduce the cost of the next card you play this phase by 1.
...he and his knights still held themselves like lords in whom the race of Númenor ran true
–The Return of the King
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2
3 ★
1
Action: Exhaust Southron Refugee to reduce the cost of the next Harad ally you play this phase by 1.
...to the land of the Haradrim came only a tale from far off...
–The Return of the King
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3
3
6 ★
2
Action: Discard the top 3 cards from your deck to ready Soldier of Erebor. (Limit once per round.)
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2
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1
Cannot have attachments.
Setup: Shuffle 2 copies of Stinker into the encounter deck.
Response: After you travel to a location, raise your threat by 1 to draw 1 card.
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1
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3
Response: After Soldier of Gondor enters play, seach the top 5 cards of your deck for a Gondor ally and add it to your hand (any number of Gondor allies instead if your threat is 40 or higher). Shuffle your deck.
Attach to a character.
Attached character gets +1 hit point.
Response: After you play Spare Pipe search the top 5 cards of your deck for an event and add it to your hand. Shuffle your deck.
"I have carried it a long way, though I don't know why."
–Pippin, The Two Towers
Action: Reduce the cost of the next card you play by 1 for each Pipe you control.
Merry smiled. "Well then," he said, "if Strider will provide what is needed, I will smoke and think."
–The Return of the King
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1
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3
Response: After Soldier of Gondor enters play, seach the top 5 cards of your deck for a Gondor ally and add it to your hand (any number of Gondor allies instead if your threat is 40 or higher). Shuffle your deck.
Attach to a character.
Action: Exhaust Spare Hood and Cloak and exhaust attached character to ready another character. Then, attach Spare Hood and Cloak to that character.
"You will have to manage without pocket–handkerchiefs, and a good many other things, before you get to the journey's end. As for a hat, I have got a spare hood and cloak in my luggage." –Dwalin, The Hobbit
Action: Exhaust a Weapon attachment to choose a non-unique enemy with 0 . Discard the chosen enemy.
In it smote and vanished, barb, shaft and feather, so fierce was its flight. –The Hobbit
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10
Response: After you engage an enemy with a higher engagement cost than your threat, ready Sam Gamgee. He gets +1 , +1 , and +1 until the end of the round.
"I'm going with him...and if any of those Black Riders try to stop him, they'll have Sam Gamgee to reckon with" –The Fellowship of the Ring
Setup: Attach to a hero.
Attached hero gets +2 hit points and gains the Healer trait.
"Few now have the skill of healing to match such evil weapons. But I will do what I can."
–Aragorn, The Fellowship of the Ring
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5
Cannot have restricted attachments. Enters play exhausted.
While Skinbark is attacking alone against an Orc enemy, that enemy does not count its .
"He was wounded by the Orcs, and many of his folk and his tree–herds have been murdered and destroyed." –Treebeard, The Two Towers
Action: Ready the Ring-bearer to choose an enemy engaged with you. If the Ring-bearer's is greater than that enemy's lower its and by the difference until the end of the phase.
For a moment it appeared to Sam that his master had grown and Gollum had shrunk... –The Two Towers
Response: Exhaust a Weapon or Armor card attached to the defending character to cancel a shadow effect just triggered during combat.
"Do what you will; but I will hinder it, if I may."
–Éowyn, The Return of the King
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Response: After you engage an enemy with a higher engagement cost than your threat, ready Sam Gamgee. He gets +1 , +1 , and +1 until the end of the round.
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3 ★
3
"Elrond is sending Elves, and they will get in touch with the Rangers, and maybe with Thranduil's folk in Mirkwood." –Gandalf, The Fellowship of the Ring
Attach to Gandalf. Restricted.
Action: Exhaust Gandalf’s Staff to (choose one):
- choose a player to draw 1 card
- add 1 resource to a hero's resource pool
- discard a shadow card from a non-unique enemy.
...he held his staff aloft, and from its tip there came a feint radiance. –The Fellowship of the Ring
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1
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3 ★
10
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
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2 ★
10
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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1
3
5 ★
10
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
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2 ★
10
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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3 ★
10
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
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0
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7
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
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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
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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
Attach to a hero.
Attached hero gains +1
Action: Pay 1 resource from attached hero's pool to attach Dúnedain Quest to another hero.
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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."
Attach to a Hobbit character.
Action: Exhaust Fast Hitch to ready attached character.
'And I put as fast a hitch over the stump as any one could have done, in the Shire or out of it.' –Sam, The Two Towers
Attach to a hero.
Attached hero gains sentinel.
Action: Pay 1 resource from attached hero's pool to attach Dúnedain Signal to another hero.
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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
Action: Choose a Dwarf hero. That hero gets +2 +2 and +2 until the end of the round.
A king he was on carven throne
In many–pillared halls of stone
With golden roof and silver floor,
And runes of power upon the door.
–The Fellowship of the Ring
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Action: Discard Westfold Outrider to choose an enemy not engaged with you. Engage the chosen enemy.
"Erkenbrand of Westfold has drawn off those men he could gather towards his fastness at Helm's Deep. The rest are scattered."–Rider of Rohan, The Two Towers
Action: Choose a Dwarf hero. That hero gets +2 +2 and +2 until the end of the round.
A king he was on carven throne
In many–pillared halls of stone
With golden roof and silver floor,
And runes of power upon the door.
–The Fellowship of the Ring
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Action: Exhaust Ravenhill Scout to move up to 2 progress tokens from 1 location to another location.
"They made their first camp on the western side of the great southern spur, which ended in a height called Ravenhill." –The Hobbit
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Trollshaw Scout does not exhaust to attack.
Forced: After Trollshaw Scout attacks, either discard it from play or discard 1 card from your hand.
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Action: Exhaust Master of the Forge to search the top 5 cards of your deck for any 1 attachment and add it to your hand. Shuffle the other cards back into your deck.
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Each Outlands character you control gets +1 .
... grim–faced they were, and shorter and somewhat swarthier than any men that Pippin had yet seen in Gondor. – The Return of the King
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Each Outlands character you control gets +1 .
...foremost on the field rode the swan–knights of Dol Amroth with their Prince and his blue banner at their head. –The Return of the King
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Each Outlands character you control gets +1 .
We heard of the horns in the hills ringing,
the swords shining in the South–kingdom.
–The Return of the King
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Each Outlands character you control gets +1 hit point.
From the Anfalas, the Langstrand far away, a long line of men of many sorts, hunters and herdsmen and men of little villages... –The Return of the King
Attach to a hero hero. Limit 1 per hero.
Response: After attached hero attacks and destroys an enemy, deal 1 damage to another enemy that shares a Trait with the enemy just destroyed.
He slew many of them and the rest fled. –The Two Towers
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Response: After an encounter card with surge is revealed, discard Minas Tirith Lampwright to name enemy, location, or treachery. If the next encounter card revealed is the named type, discard it without resolving its effects.
Action: Return X Outlands allies from your discard pile to your hand.
Death in the morning and at day's ending
lords took and lowly. Long now they sleep
under grass in Gondor by the Great River.
–The Return of the King
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Pelargir Shipwright gets +1 for each hero you control with a printed hero resource icon.
"It is forty leagues and two from Pelargir to the landings at the Harlond..."
–Aragorn, The Return of the King
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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
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Action: Discard Westfold Outrider to choose an enemy not engaged with you. Engage the chosen enemy.
"Erkenbrand of Westfold has drawn off those men he could gather towards his fastness at Helm's Deep. The rest are scattered."–Rider of Rohan, The Two Towers
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Response: After Galadhrim Minstrel enters play, search the top five 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 that of Elven–song and spoke of things little known on Middle–earth. –The Fellowship of the Ring
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10
Response: After Galadriel’s Handmaiden enters play, choose a player. That player reduces his threat by 1.
Her maidens stood silent about her, and a while she looked upon her guests. –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
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
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East Road Ranger gets +2 while committed to a side quest.
"If you bring a Ranger with you, it is well to pay attention to him..."
–Gandalf, the Fellowship of the Ring
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If the active location shares a Trait with a location in the victory display, Rossiel gets +2 .
If the attacking enemy shares a Trait with an enemy in the victory display, Rossiel gets +2 .
"Did you not say that you wished to see Elf-magic?"
–Galadriel, The Fellowship of the Ring
Action: Search your deck for a side quest and add it to your hand. Shuffle your deck.
"I called for the help of the Dúnedain, and their watch was doubled..."
–Gandalf, The Fellowship of the Ring
Attach to a Noldor character.
Action: Exhaust To the Sea, to the Sea! and discard X cards from your hand to reduce the cost of the next Noldor ally played this phase by X (to a minimum of 1).
To the Sea, to the Sea! The white gulls are crying,
The wind is blowing, and the white foam is flying.
–The Return of the King
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Response: After you play Master Ironsmith from your hand, if you paid all of its resource cost from a single hero's resource pool, attach a Weapon or Armor attachment from your hand or discard pile to that hero without paying its resource cost.
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Response: After Marksman of Lórien enters play, choose an enemy. That enemy gets -2 until the end of the round.
"Keen are the eyes of the Elves."
–Aragorn, The Two Towers
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Response: After you travel to a location, spend 1 resource to raise the engagement cost of each enemy in play by X until the end of the round, where X is that location's quest points. Any player may trigger this response.
"Gave me a chance of walking round the country and seeing folk, and hearing the news, and knowing where the good beer was."
–The Return of the King
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Resources in Na'asiyah's resource pool cannot be used to pay for allies.
Action: While Na'asiyah is attacking or defending, pay 1 resource from her resource pool to give her +2 or +2 for this attack.
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Attach to a quest card in play.
Response: When attached quest is defeated, the first player chooses a player. That player searches his deck for a side quest, adds it to his hand, and shuffles his deck.
"Now far ahead the Road has gone,
And I must follow, if I can..."
–Frodo Baggins, The Fellowship of the Ring
Attach to a Hobbit hero. Limit 1 per hero.
Attached hero gets +1 for each Song attached to it.
"I sit beside the fire and think
of how the world will be
when winter comes without a spring
that I shall ever see."
–Bilbo Baggins, The Fellowship of the Ring
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
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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
Action: Count the number of cards in your hand and shuffle your hand into your deck. Then, draw an equal number of cards. Draw 1 additional card if you control a unique Hobbit character.
Ho! Ho! Ho! to the bottle I go
To heal my heart and drown my woe.
–The Fellowship of the Ring
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You may use resources from Radagast's pool to pay for Creature allies of any sphere.
Response: After you play a Creature card, Radagast does not exhaust to quest this round.
"..he has much lore of herbs and beasts, and birds are especially his friends."
–Gandalf, The Fellowship of the Ring
Action: Search your deck for a Guarded attachment and put it into play. Shuffle your deck.
His crown shall be upholden,
His harp shall be restrung,
His halls shall echo golden
To songs of yore re–sung
–The Hobbit
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Bywater Shirriff gets +1 +1 and +1 while you are engaged with an enemy with engagement cost higher than your threat.
The Shirriffs was the name that the Hobbits gave to their police, or the nearest equivalent that they possessed.
–The Hobbit
Attach to Radagast.
Action: Exhaust Radagast's Staff to choose one: Reduce the cost of the next Creature ally you play this phase by 2, ready a Creature ally, or return a non-unique Creature enemy engaged with you to the staging area.
Response: Exhaust The One Ring and raise your threat by 1 to cancel the effects of an encounter card just revealed from the encounter deck and discard that card. Then, reveal an encounter card.
“If I, wearing it, were to command you, you would obey, even if it were to leap from a precipice or to cast yourself into the fire.”
–Frodo, The Two Towers
Attach to the hero with The One Ring.
Limit 1 per hero. Attached hero gets +1
Response: Exhaust The One Ring and raise your threat by 1 to cancel a shadow effect just triggered during an attack that attached hero is defending.
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Response: After you play Woodland Sentry from your hand, choose an enemy or location in play. If there is a copy of that card in the victory display, discard the chosen card.
In the Wide World the Wood–elves lingered in the twilight of our Sun and Moon but loved best the stars...
–The Hobbit
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Action: Discard Rohirrim Scout to choose a non-unique enemy in the staging area. That enemy does not make engagement checks against you this round.
Swiftly a scout rode back and reported that wolf–riders were abroad in the valley...
–The Two Towers
Attach to the hero with The One Ring.
Limit 1 per hero. Attached hero gets + 1 hit point.
Response: At the beginning of the round, exhaust The One Ring and raise your threat by 1 to heal all damage from attached hero.
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You cannot play Misty Mountain Journeyman from your hand unless you are engaged with an enemy.
Rangers passed at times beyond the hills, but they were few and did not stay.
–The Fellowship of the Ring
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You cannot play Misty Mountain Journeyman from your hand unless you are engaged with an enemy.
Rangers passed at times beyond the hills, but they were few and did not stay.
–The Fellowship of the Ring
Attach to a hero. Limit 1 per hero.
Response: After attached hero quests successfully, name a card type and discard the top card of your deck. If the discarded card is the named type, take it into your hand.
Attach to the Ring-bearer.
Each hero gets +1 .
Forced: After a character is destroyed, discard Fellowship of the Ring.
"The Company of the Ring shall be Nine: and the Nine Walkers shall be set against the Nine Riders that are evil."
–Elrond, The Fellowship of the Ring
Setup: Attach to a Healer hero.
Action: Exhaust attached hero and Hands of a Healer to heal up to 3 damage from a hero.
"Life to the dying
In the king's hand lying!"
–Herb–master, The Return of the King
Attach to a hero. Restricted.
Attached hero gains +2
If attached hero is Aragorn, he also gains a resource icon.
"You needn't," said Bilbo. "As a matter of fact it was all mine. Except that Aragorn insisted on my putting in a green stone. He seemed to think it important. I don't know why."
–The Fellowship of the Ring
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10
Response: After Gondorian Spearman is declared as a defender, deal 1 damage to the attacking enemy.
More than a thousand were there mustered. Their spears were like a springing wood. –The Two Towers
Attach to a hero. Restricted.
Attached hero gains +2
If attached hero is Aragorn, he also gains a resource icon.
Attach to a hero. Restricted.
Attached hero gains +2
If attached hero is Aragorn, he also gains a resource icon.
"You needn't," said Bilbo. "As a matter of fact it was all mine. Except that Aragorn insisted on my putting in a green stone. He seemed to think it important. I don't know why."
–The Fellowship of the Ring
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10
Response: After Gondorian Spearman is declared as a defender, deal 1 damage to the attacking enemy.
More than a thousand were there mustered. Their spears were like a springing wood. –The Two Towers
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10
Response: After Gondorian Spearman is declared as a defender, deal 1 damage to the attacking enemy.
More than a thousand were there mustered. Their spears were like a springing wood. –The Two Towers
Attach to a hero. Restricted.
Limit 1 per hero.
Attached hero gains +1 . (+2 instead if attached hero has the Gondor trait.)
There flowered a White Tree, and that was for Gondor...
–The Return of the King
Attach to a Noble hero. Limit 1 per hero.
Attached hero gets +1 (+2 if your threat is 40 or higher).
...his sword of steel was valiant...
–The Fellowship of the Ring
Attach to a or Rohan hero. Restricted.
Response: After attached hero participates in an attack that destroys an enemy, exhaust Rohan Warhorse to ready attached hero.
Their horses were of great stature, strong and clean–limbed... –The Two Towers
Attach to a hero you control.
Attached hero collects 1 additional resource during the resource phase each round.