Action: If you control at least 1 Dwarf hero, put a Dwarf ally from your discard pile into play under your control. Put that ally on the bottom of your deck at the end of the phase.

Out leapt the King under the Mountain, and his companions followed him. –The Hobbit

Action: Choose a character in play (other than Bilbo Baggins). Add Bilbo Baggins' total , , and to that character's and respectively until the end of the phase.

"I am the clue-finder, the web-cutter, the stinging fly. I was chosen for the lucky number."
–Bilbo Baggins, The Hobbit

Attach to a hero.

Response: After a location is added to the staging area, attach Thrór’s Key to that location. While attached to a location, Thrór’s Key gains:

Treat attached location's printed text box as blank, except for traits.

"The key that went with the map! Try it now while there is still time!" –Bilbo, The Hobbit

Attach to a Dwarf hero.

Action: Exhaust King Under the Mountain to look at the top 2 cards of your deck. Add 1 to your hand and discard the other.

"Long ago in my grandfather Thror's time our family was driven out of the far North, and came back with all their wealth and tools to this Mountain on the map." –Thorin, The Hobbit

Attach to a hero.

Action: Exhaust The Arkenstone and raise your threat by X to lower by X the cost of the next ally you play this phase that matches the attached hero's sphere.

"...the Heart of the Mountain; and it is also the heart of Thorin. He values it above a rive of gold." –Bilbo, The Hobbit

Attach to a hero. Restricted.

Attached hero gets +2 .

Response: After attached hero attacks and destroys an enemy, deal 1 damage to another enemy engaged with you.

Royal indeed did Thorin look, clad in a coat of gold–plated rings, with a silver hafted axe... –The Hobbit

Attach to a hero.

Action: Add Thror's Golden Cup to the victory display to draw 3 cards.

...the great golden cup of Thror, two–handed, hammered and carven with birds and flowers whose eyes and petals were of jewels... –The Hobbit

Response: Spend 1 resource and exhaust The One Ring to cancel the effect of an encounter card just revealed from the encounter deck. Shuffle that card back into the encounter deck and reveal another encounter card.

"I will take the Ring," he said, "though I do not know the way." –The Fellowship of the Ring

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

Each enemy in play gets +1 engagement cost for each Hobbit hero you control.

Response: After you engage an enemy with an engagement cost higher than your threat, draw a card.

"We Hobbits ought to stick together, and we will"
–The Fellowship of the Ring

Cannot have attachments.

Lower the cost to play Bill the Pony by 2 if you control Sam Gamgee.

Each Hobbit character gets +1 hit point.

"He gave me a look as plain as Mr. Pippin could speak it: if you don't let me go with you, Sam, I'll follow on my own" –Sam Gamgee, The Fellowship of the Ring

Response: After Farmer Maggot enters play, deal 1 damage to an enemy engaged with you. (Deal 2 damage instead if that enemy's engagement cost is higher than your threat.)

"It is lucky for you that I know you. I was going out to set my dogs on any strangers." –The Fellowship of the Ring

Action: Choose a Hobbit character. That character gets +2 , +2 , and +2 until the end of the phase.

"I have something to do before the end, and it lies ahead, not in the Shire. I must see it through, sir, if you understand me." –Sam Gamgee, The Fellowship of the Ring

Action: Reduce your threat by 1 for each Pipe you control. Each hero with a Pipe attachment gets +1 until the end of the phase.

...he smoked and blew smoke–rings with the same vigour and delight...–The Fellowship of the Ring

Lower the cost play Take No Notice by 1 for each Hobbit or Ranger hero you control.

Action: Add 5 to each enemy's engagement cost until the end of the round.

...they made no noise that even hobbits would hear. Event the wild things in the fields and woods hardly noticed their passing. –The Fellowship of the Ring

Action: Each hero you control gets +1 until the end of the round. Draw 1 card for each Hobbit hero you control.

"I wonder if that is Gandalf coming after us" said Frodo, but even as he said it, he had a feeling that it was not so... –The Fellowship of the Ring

Attach to a Hobbit hero. Limit 1 per hero.

Attached hero gets +2 while defending against an attack by an enemy with an engagement cost higher than your threat.

In their dark cloaks they were invisible as if they all had magic rings. –The Fellowship of the Ring

Attach to a Hobbit character. Limit 1 per character.

Response: After your threat is reduced by an event card effect, exhaust Hobbit Pipe to draw a card.

But even the Dúnedain of Gondor allow us this credit: Hobbits first put it into pipes. Not even the Wizards first thought of that before we did. –The Fellowship of the Ring

Permanent.

Setup: Attach to the Ring-bearer.

Action: Add Mr. Underhill to the victory display to choose an enemy engaged with you. Until the end of the round, that enemy cannot attack you.

"I will give you a travelling name now. When you go, go as Mr. Underhill."
–Gandalf, The Fellowship of the Ring

Permanent.

Setup: Attach to a hero.

Attached hero gets +1 and gains the Noble trait.

Venerable he seemed as a king crowned with many winters, and yet hale as a tried warrior in the fullness of his strength.
–The Fellowship of the Ring

Response: After Frodo Baggins exhausts to defend an attack, exhaust The One Ring and spend 1 resource to target the attacking enemy. Then, this attack deals no damage and each player raises his threat by 2.

"But there is more about you now than appears on the surface." –Bilbo, The Fellowship of the Ring

Play with the top card of your deck faceup. Once per phase, you may play the top card of your deck as if it was in your hand. When playing a card this way, Gandalf is considered to have the printed , , , and icons.

"I am a servant of the Secret Fire, wielder of the flame of Anor." –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
• each player draws 1 card.

Action: Add Flame of Anor to the victory display and discard the top card of your deck to ready an Istari character you control. That character gets +X until the end of the phase where X is the discarded card's cost.

"You cannot pass!" –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

Setup: Attach to a hero in play.

Add Phial of Galadriel to the victory display and remove it from the campaign pool, to give each enemy engaged with you -4 until the end of the round.

"May it be a light to you in dark places, when all other lights go out." –Galadriel, The Fellowship of the Ring

Setup: Attach to a hero in play.

Action: Add Three Golden Hairs to the victory display and remove it from the campaign pool, to lower each player's threat by 3. Then, each player draws 3 cards.

"...your hands shall flow with gold, and yet over you gold shall have no dominion." –Galadriel, The Fellowship of the Ring

Sentinel.

Reduce the cost of the first Rohan ally you play from your hand each round by 1 (to a minimum of 0).

"Arise now, arise, Riders of Théoden!" –The Two Towers

Cannot have restricted attachments.

Action: Deal 1 damage to Treebeard to give him +1 and +1 until the end of the phase. (Limit 5 times per phase.)

"I am not altogether on anybody's side, because nobody is altogether on my side..."
–The Two Towers

Sentinel.

Response: After an enemy is revealed from the encounter deck, ready Gimli.

"Give me a row of orc-necks and room to swing and all weariness will fall from me!"
–The Two Towers

Combat Action: Ready Háma. He gets +3 until the end of the phase. At the end of the phase, discard Háma. (Limit once per round.)

"I am the Doorward of Théoden," he said. "Háma is my name." –The Two Towers

Play only after the resolving enemy attacks step is complete.

Combat Action: Exhaust and discard a Rohan ally you control to choose and discard a non-unique enemy engaged with you.

"Helm is arisen and comes back to war. Helm for Théoden King!" –Riders of Rohan, The Two Towers

Play only if you control Aragorn.

Quest Action: Choose 3 heroes committed to the quest. Ready those heroes. Until the end of the round, each of the chosen heroes gets +1 , +1 , and +1 .

"We shall makes such a chase as shall be accounted a marvel among the Three Kindreds: Elves, Dwarves, and Men. Forth the Three Hunters!" –Aragorn, The Two Towers

Permanent.

Setup: Attach to a Warrior hero.

Response: After attached hero is declared as the only attacker against a non-unique enemy, exhaust Intimidation to give that enemy -2 for this attack.

"None knows what the new day shall bring him," said Aragorn. "Get you gone, ere it turn to your evil!"
–Aragorn, The Two Towers

Permanent.

Setup: Attach to a hero.

Attached hero gets +1 +1 +1 and cannot have treachery card attachments.

"Beyond all hope you return to us in our need!"
–Aragorn, The Two Towers

Attach to Aragorn.

Quest Action: Exhaust Aragorn and Palantír of Orthanc to discard the top card of the encounter deck. If Aragorn's is greater than the discarded card's you may add Palantír of Orthanc to the victory display and remove it from the campaign pool to choose a player. That player reveals 1 fewer encounter card this phase (to a minimum of 0).

Action: Spend 1 resource and exhaust The One Ring to give Frodo Baggins +2 and +2 until the end of the round.

"It's my doom, I think, to go to that Shadow yonder, so that a way will be found." –The Two Towers

Reduce the cost of the first Trap card you play each round by 1 (to a minimum of 0).

Response: After a Trap card you control is attached to an enemy, draw 1 card.

"See! Some of the Southrons have broken from the trap and are flying from the road." –The Two Towers

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

Response: After a Rohan ally you control is discarded from play, exhaust Gamling to return that ally to your hand.

"...we have a thousand fit to fight on foot," said Gamling, an old man, the leader of those that watched the Dike. –The Two Towers

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

Response: After a hero you control defends an attack made by an enemy with engagement cost higher than your threat, ready that hero. Until the end of the phase, that hero gets +2 while attacking that enemy.

"We're going on; but we'll settle with you first. Come on, and taste it again!" –Sam Gamgee, 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

Play only if you control the Ring-bearer.

Planning Action: Brace of Coneys to the victory display to (choose 2): heal up to 2 damage from a hero, add 2 resources to a hero's pool, draw 2 cards, or reduce a player's threat by 2.

“'Sméagol always helps,' he said. 'He has brought rabbits, nice rabbits.'”
—Gollum, The Two Towers

The first player gains control of Aragorn. If Aragorn leaves play, the players lose the game.

While Aragorn has an Artifact attached, he gains sentinel and does not exhaust to quest.

"I have no help to send, therefore I must go myself..."
–The Return of the King

Sentinel.

Response: After Beregond defends an attack and takes no damage, reduce the defending player's threat by 1. (Limit once per round.)

“The Lord does not permit those who wear the black and silver to leave their post for any cause...”
–The Return of the King

While there is a hero in your discard pile, Prince Imrahil loses the ally card type and gains the hero card type.

"We must gather all of the strength that we can find.
–The Return of the King

Reduce the cost to play Halbarad by 1 for each enemy engaged with you.

Each enemy engaged with you gets +10 engagement cost.

"Halbarad Dunadan, Ranger of the North I am..."
–The Return of the King

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."
–ɐowyn, The Return of the King

Attach to a Rohan hero. Restricted.

Response: After attached hero is declared as a defender, exhaust Golden Shield to add attached hero's to its for this attack.

His golden shield was uncovered, and lo! it shone like an image of the Sun...
–The Return of the King