Attach to a hero. Restricted.
Response: After a character is destroyed, add 1 resource to attached hero's pool.
'Slow should you be to wind that horn again, Boromir,' said Elrond, 'until you stand once more on the borders of your land, and dire need is on you.'
–The Fellowship of the Ring
Attach to an enemy engaged with a player.
Attached enemy cannot attack.
"We shall have it like a coney in a trap. Then we shall learn what kind of thing it is."
–Unidentified Man of Gondor,
The Two Towers
Action: Raise your threat by 2 to claim this objective when it is free of encounters. When claimed, attach Gandalf's Map to a hero you control. (Counts as an attachment. If detached, return Gandalf's Map to the staging area.)
Attached hero cannot attack or defend.
Action: Raise your threat by 2 to claim this objective when it is free of encounters. When claimed, attach Dungeon Torch to a hero you control. (Counts as an attachment. If detached, return Dungeon Torch to the staging area.)
Forced: At the end of each round, raise attached hero's controller's threat by 2.
Action: Raise your threat by 2 to claim this objective when it is free of encounters. When claimed, attach Shadow Key to a hero you control. (Counts as an attachment. If detached, return Shadow Key to the staging area.)
Forced: At the end of each round, attached hero suffers 1 damage.
Attach to a hero. Restricted.
Attached hero gains +2 
If attached hero is Aragorn, he also gains a 
resource icon.
Attach to a hero.
Action: Discard Cram to ready attached hero.
If you want to know what cram is, I can only say that I don't know the recipe; but it is biscuitish, keeps good indefinitely, is supposed to be sustaining, and is certainly not entertaining...
–The Hobbit
Attach to a hero. Restricted.
Response: After a character is destroyed, add 1 resource to attached hero's pool.
"Slow should you be to wind that horn again, Boromir," said Elrond, "until you stand once more on the border of your land, and dire need is on you."
–The Fellowship of the Ring
Attach to the active location. Attached location gets +1 quest point.
Response: After attached location leaves play as an explored location, the first player puts 1 ally into play from his hand.
Attach to a Dwarf character. Restricted.
Attached hero gains +1 
Response: After attached character attacks, deal 1 damage to the defending character.
Attach to a hero. Restricted.
Attached hero gets +1 when attacking an Orc.
Response: After attached hero attacks and destroys an enemy, place 1 progress token on the current quest.
Play only if you control a Noldor or Silvan hero.
Attach to a hero.
Action: Discard Lembas to ready attached hero and heal 3 damage from it.
Attach to a 
character. Restricted.
Response: Exhaust A Burning Brand to cancel a shadow effect just triggered during an attack that attached character is defending.
"Keep close to the fire, with your faces outward!" cried Strider. "Keep some of th elonger sticks ready in your hands."
–The Fellowship of the Ring
Attach to a hero.
Attached hero gains ranged.
Action: Pay 1 resource from attached hero's pool to attach DĂșnedain Cache to another hero.
Attach to a Dwarf hero.
Action: Exhaust Narvi's Belt to give attached hero a 
, , 
or icon until the end of the phase.
Attach to a Dwarf character. Restricted.
Attached character gets +1
Response: After attached character attacks, deal 1 damage to the defending enemy.
"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." –Gloin, The Fellowship of the Ring
Action: Exhaust a hero to claim this objective. Then, attach Book of Mazarbul to that hero. (If detached, return Book of Mazarbul to the staging area.)
Attached hero cannot attack and does not exhaust to commit to a quest.
Attach to a Noldor or Silvan character. Restricted.
When attached character attacks an enemy, that enemy gets -2 
until the end of the phase.
Attach to a Noldor or Silvan character, or to Aragorn. Limit 1 per character.
Attached character gains ranged.
If attached character has the printed ranged keyword, it gets +1 during a ranged attack.
Attach to a Dwarf or Hobbit character. Restricted.
Attached character gets +1 hit point and +1 .
"And all the arrows of all the hunters in the world would be in vain..."
–Gimli, The Fellowship of the Ring
Attach to a hero.
Action: Discard Healing Herbs and exhaust attached hero to heal all damage on 1 character.
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 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.
Planning Action: Exhaust Palantir and attached hero to name a card type and look at the top 3 cards of the encounter deck. For each of those cards that matches the named type, draw a card. For each of those cards that does not match the named type, raise your threat by 2.
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 ThĂ©oden Thengel's son, and his spear was shivered as he threw down thier chieftan. –The Return of the King
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
Attach to a Noldor or Silvan character. Restricted.
Attached character gets +2 hit points and gains sentinel.
...they were tall and and clad in grey mail, and from their shoulders hung long white cloaks. –The Fellowship of the Ring
If unattached, the first player must claim Key of the Boar and attach it to a hero he controls.
If Key of the Boar is discarded, add it to the staging area.
Shadow: Shuffle Key of the Boar back into the encounter deck.
If unattached, the first player must claim Key of the Wolf and attach it to a hero he controls.
If Key of the Wolf is discarded, add it to the staging area.
Shadow: Shuffle Key of the Wolf back into the encounter deck.
If unattached, the first player must claim Key of the Raven and attach it to a hero he controls.
If Key of the Raven is discarded, add it to the staging area.
Shadow: Shuffle Key of the Raven back into the encounter deck.
Attach to a Silvan character with the ranged keyword. Restricted.
Attached character gets +1 (+2 instead if attacking an enemy not engaged with you.)
...longer and stronger than the bows of Mirkwood, and strung with a string of elf–hair. –The Fellowship of the Ring
Attach to Galadriel.
Action: Exhaust Mirror of Galadriel to search the top 10 cards of your deck for a card and add it to your hand. Shuffle the rest back into your deck. Then, discard a random card from your hand.
"What you will see, if you leave the Mirror free to work, I cannot tell. For it shows things that were, things that are, things that yet may be."
–Galadriel, The Fellowship of the Ring
Attach to a Noldor or Silvan character.
Limit 1 per character.
Attached character gets +1 (+2 instead if the active location has the Forest trait).
It was hard to say what colour they were: grey with the hue of twilight under the trees they seemed to be; and yet if they were moved, or set in another light, they were green as shadowed leaves... –The Fellowship of the Ring
If Celebrimborâs Mould is free of encounters, the first player claims it and attaches it to a hero he controls.
If the attached hero leaves play, the players lose the game.
"Celebrimbor of Hollin drew these signs." –Gandalf, The Fellowship of the Ring
Attach to a DĂșnedain or Healer character.
Action: Discard Athelas and exhaust attached character to heal all damage on a character. You may discard a Condition attachment from that character.
"...it is a healing plant that the Men of the West brought to Middle–earth. Athelas they named it..." –Aragorn, The Fellowship of the Ring
Attach to a hero with Sentinel. Limit 1 per hero.
Response: Exhaust Raven-winged Helm to prevent 1 point of damage just dealt to attached character.
He had a small hauberk, its rings of forged of steel, maybe, yet black as jet; and a high-crowned helm with small raven-wings on either side, set with a silver star in the centre of the circlet.
–The Return of the King
Attach to a Noldor or Silvan hero. Restricted.
Action: Discard a card from your hand to give attached hero +1 until the end of the phase. Limit 3 times per phase.
Their spears and swords shone in the gloom with a gleam of chill flame, so deadly was the wrath of the hands that held them.
–The Hobbit
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 a DĂșnedain 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 NĂșmenor to add 1 resource to attached hero's resource pool.
...the flowing characters of NĂșmenor glinted like fire upon the blade.
–The Fellowship of the Ring
Attach to a Ranger character. Limit 1 per character.
While attached character is commited to the quest, Weather-stained Cloak gains:
Response: Exhaust Weather-stained Cloak to cancel 1 point of damage just dealt to attached character.
They were clad in warm raiment and heavy cloaks...
–The Return of the King