At the end of the round, discard Gandalf from play.

Response: After Gandalf enters play, (choose 1): draw 3 cards, deal 4 damage to 1 enemy in play, or reduce your threat by 5.

At the end of the round, discard Gandalf from play.

Response: After Gandalf enters play, (choose 1): draw 3 cards, deal 4 damage to 1 enemy in play, or reduce your threat by 5.

At the end of the round, discard Gandalf from play.

Response: After Gandalf enters play, (choose 1):

• draw 3 cards
• deal 4 damage to 1 enemy in play
• reduce your threat by 5.

At the end of the round, discard Gandalf from play.

Response: After Gandalf enters play, (choose 1):

• draw 3 cards
• deal 4 damage to 1 enemy in play
• reduce your threat by 5.

At the end of the round, discard Gandalf from play.

Response: After Gandalf enters play, (choose 1): draw 3 cards, deal 4 damage to 1 enemy in play, or reduce your threat by 5.

At the end of the round, discard Gandalf from play.

Response: After Gandalf enters play, (choose 1):

• draw 3 cards
• deal 4 damage to 1 enemy in play
• reduce your threat by 5.

At the end of the round, discard Gandalf from play.

Response: After Gandalf enters play, (choose 1):

• draw 3 cards
• deal 4 damage to 1 enemy in play
• reduce your threat by 5.

At the end of the round, discard Gandalf from play.

Response: After Gandalf enters play, (choose 1):

• draw 3 cards
• deal 4 damage to 1 enemy in play
• reduce your threat by 5.

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

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

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.)

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.)

Attach to a player's threat dial. Limit 1 per player.

Forced: When you would be eliminated by reaching your threat elimination level, instead discard Favor of the Valar and reduce your threat to 5 less than your threat elimination level. You are not eliminated.

"...their hearts were lifted up in such a hope as they had not known since the darkness came out of the East..."
–The Return of the King

Attach to a player's threat dial. Limit 1 per player.

Forced: When you would be eliminated by reaching your threat elimination level, instead discard Favor of the Valar and reduce your threat to 5 less than your threat elimination level. You are not eliminated.

"...their hearts were lifted up in such a hope as they had not known since the darkness came out of the East..."
–The Return of the King

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

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

When playing this card, choose one:

Quest Action: Remove No Time to Waste! from the game and from the Campaign Pool to reduce each player's threat by 3. Reveal the top card of the encounter deck.

Quest Action: Draw 1 card.

Play only if each of your heroes is a Hobbit.

Action: Reduce your threat by 4.

"If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world."
–Thorin Oakenshield, The Hobbit

Play only if each of your heroes is a Hobbit.

Action: Reduce your threat by 4.

"If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world."
–Thorin Oakenshield, The Hobbit

Reduce the cost to play Keen as Lances by 1 for each card worth no victory points in the victory display.

Action: Add Keen as Lances to the victory display. Then, choose one: add 2 resources to a hero's resource pool, draw 3 cards, or reduce your threat by 4.

Reduce the cost to play Keen as Lances by 1 for each card worth no victory points in the victory display.

Action: Add Keen as Lances to the victory display. Then, choose one: add 2 resources to a hero's resource pool, draw 3 cards, or reduce your threat by 4.

Response: After Frodo Baggins commits to the quest, spend 1 resource from his resource pool to ready another unique character committed to the quest. If you quest successfully this phase, reduce your threat by 1.

"Keep your tempers and hold your hands to the last possible moment!"
–The Return of the King

Planning Action: Search the top 5 cards of the encounter deck for an enemy. Add that enemy to the staging area to reduce the cost of the first ally you play this phase by X, where X is that enemy's Shuffle the encounter deck.

Setup: Reduce your threat by 3.

Action: Raise your threat by 3 to ready Éowyn. She gets +9 until the end of the phase. (Limit once per game for the group.)

"But no living man am I! You look upon a woman. Éowyn I am, Éomund's daughter."
–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

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

Response: After an enemy is revealed from the top of the encounter deck, exhaust Merry to reduce your threat by that enemy's .

"We have come a long way with you and been through some stiff times. We want to go on."
–The Fellowship of the Ring

Response: After an enemy is revealed from the top of the encounter deck, exhaust Merry to reduce your threat by that enemy's .

"We have come a long way with you and been through some stiff times. We want to go on."
–The Fellowship of the Ring

Response: After Dwalin attacks and destroys an Orc enemy, lower your threat by 2.

It was a dwarf with a blue beard tucked into a golden belt, and very bright eyes under his dark-green hood.
–The Hobbit

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

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

Galadriel cannot quest, attack or defend. Allies you control do not exhaust to commit to the quest during the round they enter play.

Action: Exhaust Galadriel to choose a player. That player reduces his threat by 1 and draws 1 card. (Limit once per round.)

Galadriel cannot quest, attack, or defend. Allies you control do not exhaust to commit to the quest during the round they enter play.

Action: Exhaust Galadriel to choose a player. That player reduces his threat by 1 and draws 1 card. (Limit once per round.)

Galadriel cannot quest, attack, or defend. Allies you control do not exhaust to commit to the quest during the round they enter play.

Action: Exhaust Galadriel to choose a player. That player reduces his threat by 1 and draws 1 card. (Limit once per round.)

Response: After you play a Dwarf character from your hand, reduce your threat by 1.

"Nori, at your service." –Nori, The Hobbit

Response: After you play a Dwarf character from your hand, reduce your threat by 1.

"Nori, at your service." –Nori, The Hobbit

Response: After you play a Dwarf character from your hand, reduce your threat by 1.

"Nori, at your service." –Nori, The Hobbit

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

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

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

Action: Reduce your threat by 3 to give control of Wandering Took to another player. Raise that player's threat by 3. (Limit once per round.)

...but certainly there was something not entirely hobbit-like about them, and once in a while members of the Took-clan would go and have adventures. –The Hobbit

Action: Reduce your threat by 3 to give control of Wandering Took to another player. Raise that player's threat by 3. (Limit once per round.)

...but certainly there was something not entirely hobbit-like about them, and once in a while members of the Took-clan would go and have adventures. –The Hobbit

Ranged.

Response: After Derufin participates in an attack that destroys an enemy engaged with a player, discard Derufin to reduce the engaged player's threat by X, where X is the destroyed enemy's printed .

Action: Discard Damrod from play to lower your threat by 1 for each enemy in the staging area.

While Elfhelm is ready, he gains:

Response: After your threat is raised as the result of questing unsuccessfully, or by an encounter or quest card effect, reduce your threat by 1.

"But my lord sends word that we must set ourselves in readiness: orders may come for a sudden move." –The Return of the King

Attach to a Dwarf character.

Response: After you travel to a Mountain or Underground location, ready attached character and reduce your threat by 1

'This is more to my liking,' said the dwarf, stomping on the stones. 'Ever my heart rises as we draw near the mountains.'
–The Two Towers

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.

Limit 1 per deck. Attach to a hero.

Response: When attached hero is destroyed, add The Fall of Gil-Galad to the victory display to reduce your threat by X, where X is the attached hero's threat cost.

...for into darkness fell his star
in Mordor where the shadows are.
–The Fellowship of the Ring

Action: If you control a unique Noldor character, give another character +1 until the end of the phase and lower your threat by 3.

"Believe rather that it is so ordered that we, who sit here, and none others, must now find counsel for the peril of the world."
–Elrond, The Fellowship of the Ring

Action: If you control a unique Noldor character, give another character +1 until the end of the phase and lower your threat by 3.

"Believe rather that it is so ordered that we, who sit here, and none others, must now find counsel for the peril of the world."
–Elrond, The Fellowship of the Ring