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

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.

Cannot have attachments.

Response: Discard Loyal Hound to cancel up to 2 damage just dealt to a hero you control.

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

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

Pippin gets +2 while attacking an enemy with an engagement cost higher than your threat.

Response: After you engage an enemy with an engagement cost higher than your threat, ready Pippin.

"Down on your knees in the road and ask pardon, or I will set this troll's bane in you!"
–The Return of the King

Response: After Faramir enters play, choose a non-unique enemy in the staging area. Engage that enemy and deal 2 damage to it (4 damage instead if it has an attachment on it).

"There will be hard handstrokes nigh at hand ere the day is full."
–The Two Towers

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 .

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.

Response: After Cautious Halfling enters play, look at the top card of the encounter deck. If that card is not an enemy, draw a card.

"I thought I had been both careful and clever."
–Frodo, The Fellowship of the Ring

Encounter.

When Revealed: Choose a player. That player gains control of Tom Bombadil, ready and committed to the quest. At the end of the round, remove Tom Bombadil and a copy of Tom Bombadillo! in the victory display from the game. This effect cannot be cancelled.

While your threat is 40 or higher, Angbor the Fearless gets +2 and does not exhaust to quest.

"Four thousands I sent marching from Pelargir through Lossarnach two days ago; and Angbor the fearless rides before them."
–Aragorn, The Return of the King

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

Response: After Knight of Belfalas enters play, return a Gondor ally from your discard pile to your hand.

The mounted knights returned, and at their rear the banner of Dol Amroth...
–The Return of the King

Doomed 2.

Response: After a player raises his threat from the doomed keyword, give control of Soldier of Isengard to that player.

Response: After Nori participates in an attack that destroys an enemy, put the top card of your discard pile on the bottom of your deck.

"You've left the burglar behind again!"
–Nori, The Hobbit

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

Response: After Wandering Exile commits to a quest, discard a card from your hand to ready Wandering Exile.

"The Elves have their own labours and their own sorrows...
–Gildor, The Fellowship of the Ring

Ranged.

You cannot play Northern Bowmaster from your hand unless you are engaged with an enemy.

Response: After Odo Proudfoot enters play, search the top 5 cards of your deck for a Hobbit ally and add it to your hand. Shuffle the other cards back into your deck.

"ProudFEET! shouted an elderly hobbit from the back of the pavilion.
–The Fellowship of the Ring

Ranged.

Hobbit Archer gets +1 while attacking an enemy with a higher engagement cost than your threat.

"If you lay a finger on this farmer, or on anyone else, you will be shot at once."
–Merry, The Return of the King

Response: After Dale Messenger enters play, choose a player. That player heals 1 damage from each character he controls with a player card attachment.

"We discover that messengers have come also to King Brand in Dale..."
–Glóin, The Fellowship of the Ring

Cannot have restricted attachments.

Forced: After Eagle Emissary quests successfully, pay 1 resource or discard it from play.

...and out of the East there came a great Eagle flying, and he bore tidings beyond hope from The Lords of the West...
–The Return of the King

Ranged. Sentinel.

Cannot have restricted attachments.

Forced: At the end of the round, discard Wilyador unless the players as a group spend 1 resource.

Response: After Haleth quests successfully, search the top 5 cards of your deck for an attachment and add it to your hand. Shuffle your deck.

Response: After Westfold Lancer quests successfully, discard it to choose a non-unique enemy in the staging area. Deal 2 damage to the chosen enemy.

...the white fury of the Northmen burned the hotter, and more skilled was their knighthood with long spears...
–The Return of the King

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

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.

Encounter.

When Revealed: Choose a player. That player gains control of Tom Bombadil, ready and committed to the quest. At the end of the round, remove Tom Bombadil and a copy of Tom Bombadillo! in the victory display from the game. This effect cannot be cancelled.

While your threat is 40 or higher, Angbor the Fearless gets +2 and does not exhaust to quest.

"Four thousands I sent marching from Pelargir through Lossarnach two days ago; and Angbor the fearless rides before them."
–Aragorn, The Return of the King

Response: After Wandering Exile commits to a quest, discard a card from your hand to ready Wandering Exile.

"The Elves have their own labours and their own sorrows...
–Gildor, The Fellowship of the Ring

Ranged.

You cannot play Northern Bowmaster from your hand unless you are engaged with an enemy.

Cannot have restricted attachments.

Forced: After Eagle Emissary quests successfully, pay 1 resource or discard it from play.

...and out of the East there came a great Eagle flying, and he bore tidings beyond hope from The Lords of the West...
–The Return of the King

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

Response: After you play Fili from your hand during the planning phase, search your deck for Kili and put him into play under your control. Then, shuffle your deck.

"Fili is the youngest and still has the best sight."
–Thorin, The Hobbit

Response: After you play Kili from your hand during the planning phase, search your deck for Fili and put him into play under your control. Then, shuffle your deck.

"Let us join the throng!"
–The Hobbit

Action: Exhaust Bofur to search the top 5 cards of your deck for 1 Weapon attachment. Add that card to your hand and shuffle the other cards back into your deck.

There is no knowing what a dwarf will not dare and do for revenge or the recovery of his own. –The Hobbit

Response: After a hero is assigned any amount of damage, exhaust Dori to place that damage on Dori instead.

'I can't always be carrying burglars on my back,' said Dori, 'down tunnels and up trees! What do you think I am? A porter?' –Dori, The Hobbit

Gandalf does not exhaust to commit to a quest.

Forced: At the end of the refresh phase, discard Gandalf from play. You may raise your threat by 2 to cancel this effect.

“I am Gandalf, and Gandalf means me!” –The Hobbit

While you control at least 5 Dwarf characters, Glóin gains:

Response: After you play Glóin from your hand, choose a hero. Add 2 resources to that hero's resource pool.

Glóin lit several more torches, and then they all crept out, one by one... – The Hobbit

While you control at least 5 Dwarf characters, Bifur gains:

Response: After you play Bifur from your hand, draw 2 cards.

"My cousins! Bombur and Bofur – we have forgotten them, they are down in the valley!" –The Hobbit

Sentinel.

While you control at least 5 Dwarf characters, lower the cost to play Dwalin by 2.

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

If each hero you control has the Hobbit trait, damage from undefended attacks against you may be assigned to Barliman Butterbur.

"But spooks or no spooks, they won't get in The Prancing Pony so easy." –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

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

Response: After you play Galadriel from your hand, search the top 5 cards of your deck for an attachment of cost 3 or less and put it into play. Put the remaining cards back in any order.

Boromir gets +2 while defending against an enemy with an engagement cost higher than your threat.

Response: After Boromir takes any amount of damage, ready him.

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.

Response: After Bilbo Baggins enters play, search your deck for a Pipe attachment and add it to your hand. Shuffle your deck.

"Elves may thrive on speech alone, and Dwarves endure great weariness, but I am an old Hobbit, and I miss my meal at noon." –The Fellowship of the Ring

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