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

Action: Spend 1 resource to ready Knight of Dale. (limit once per round).

Valour Action: Ready Knight of Dale (limit once per round.)

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.

Response: After Riddermark Knight is declared as an attacker, it gets +2 for this attack. At the end of this attack, discard Riddermark Knight.

Combat Action: Deal 3 damage to a non-unique enemy engaged with you.

Valour Combat Action: Discard a non-unique enemy engaged with you.

When thirteen had fallen the rest fled shrieking, leaving the defenders unharmed, except for Sam who had a scrath along the scalp.
—The Fellowship of the Ring

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

Play only if you control a unique character with the Noldor trait and another unique character with the Dúnedain trait.

Action: Choose a non-unique location in the staging area and increase your threat by X to discard it. X is the chosen location's printed quest points.

Cannot have restricted attachments. Enters play exhausted.

Leaflock gets +1 for each damaged Ent you control (limit +4

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

Response: After Emyn Arnen Ranger commits to the quest, choose an enemy with a Trap attachment. Until the end of the phase, Emyn Arnen Ranger gets +X where X is the chosen enemy's printed

Play only if you control a unique character with the Ent trait and another unique character with the Hobbit trait.

Action: Ready each damaged Ent character you control.

Each Dale character you control with a player attachment gets +1

Response: After you play an attachment on a Dale character without an attachment, draw a card.

"He is a strong king, and his realm now reaches south and east of Esgaroth."
–Glóin, The Fellowship of the Ring

While playing an Item attachment, Bard son of Brand is considered to have the printed and icons.

Response: When a character leaves play, return each attachment attached to that character to its owners hand. (Limit once per phase.)

North Realm Lookout gets +1 and does not exhaust to quest while it has an Item attachment.

There were people on the look–out on the banks.
–The Hobbit

Attach to a Dale or Warrior character. Limit 1 per character.

Attached character gets +1 (and +1 hit point if attached character has the sentinel keyword).

Each one of his folk was clad in hauberk of steel mail that hung to his knees...
–The Hobbit

Guarded (enemy or location).

Attach to a hero.

Attached hero gets +2 and collects an additional resource during the resource phase.

...the necklace of Girion, Lord of Dale, made of five hundred emeralds green as grass, which he gave for the arming of his eldest son...–The Hobbit

Planning Action: Choose a Dale hero you control. Add 1 resource to its pool for each character you control with a player attachment. You can only play 1 copy of Traffic from Dale each round.

The talk was all of the trade that came and went on the waterways and the growth of the traffic on the river...
The Hobbit

Action: Choose an ally with a player attachment. Ready that ally.

...the grim–voiced fellow ran hotfoot to the Master. "The dragon is coming or I am a fool!" he cried. "Cut the bridges! To arms! To arms!"
–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

Planning Action: Choose a ready player attachment on a character you control. Return that attachment to its owner's hand to reduce the cost of the next attachment played this phase by X, where X is the chosen attachment's cost.

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

Combat Action: Choose a Beorning ally with printed cost 3 or more in your hand or discard pile. Discard Beorning Skin-changer to put that ally into play.

"...sometimes he is a huge black bear, sometimes he is a great strong black–haired man with huge arms and a great beard."
–Gandalf, The Hobbit

Response: After Long Lake Fisherman enters play, name a number. Then, search the top 5 cards of your deck for a card whose printed cost is equal to that number and add it to your hand. Shuffle your deck.

Guarded (enemy or location).

Attach to a hero.

Each unique character you control gains +1 .

Action: Reduce your threat by 2 to attach The Arkenstone to a hero controlled by another player and raise that player's threat by 2. (Limit once per round.)

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.

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

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

Response: Return a Silvan ally you control to your hand to cancel a shadow effect just triggered during combat.

"You would die before your stroke fell."
–Legolas, The Two Towers

While there is at least 1 side quest in the victory display, ready Thalion at the beginning of the combat phase.

While there are at least 3 side quests in the victory display, Thalion loses the ally card type, gains the hero card type and the resource icons of each sphere on a side quest in the victory display.

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

Action: Each location with an attachment gets -2 until the end of the phase.

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.

Response: After Bilbo Baggins commits to the quest, choose an enemy in the staging area. Until the end of the phase, Bilbo Baggins gets +X where X is that enemy's If the players quest successfully, deal 1 damage to that enemy (2 damage instead if it is guarding a card).

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

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

Attach to a character. Restricted.

Response: After a shadow effect is triggered during combat, exhaust Round Shield to give attached character +2 for this attack.

Response: After you play Erebor Toymaker from your hand, reduce the cost of the next attachment played this phase by 2.

There were toys the like of which they had never seen before, all beautiful and some obviously magical.
–The Fellowship of the Ring

Attach to a Dale or Dwarf character. Restricted.

Attached character gets +1 and gains sentinel.

"We make good armour and keen swords, but we cannot again make mail or blade to match those that were made before the dragon came."
–Glóin, The Fellowship of the Ring

Cannot attack, defend, or have attachments.

Refresh Action: Return Messenger Raven to it's owner's hand and name a card type. Choose a player to look at the top card of his deck. If that card is the named type, add it to its owner's hand. If it is not, discard it.

Guarded (location).

Attach to a hero.

Response: When attached hero is dealt any amount of damage, reduce that damage by 1.

It was of silver-steel which the Elves call mithril, and with it went a belt of pearls and crystals. –The Hobbit

Action: Choose an attachment with a printed cost of X in any player's discard pile and play that attachment for no cost. (The chosen attachment can belong to any sphere of influence.)

The Sword of Elendil was forged anew by Elvish smiths... –The Fellowship of the Ring

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: After Merry enters play, each unique ally you control gets +1 until the end of the round.

"Shire–folk have been so comfortable so long they don't know what to do. They just want a match, though, and they'll go up in fire."
–The Return of the King