When a player card effect would reduce your threat by any amount, reduce that amount to 1.

While playing an event with the printed doomed keyword, Saruman gains the printed , , and icons.

Response: After you play a card with the doomed keyword, ready Saruman.

Action: Pay 1 resource from Gildor Inglorion's resource pool to choose a player to draw 1 card (Limit once per round.)

"Gildor Inglorion of the House of Finrod. We are Exiles, and most of our kindred have long ago departed..."
–The Fellowship of the Ring

Ranged. Sentinel.

Cannot have restricted attachments. Gwaihir does not ready during the refresh phase.

Response: After an Eagle ally enters or leaves play, ready Gwaihir. (Limit once per phase.)

Sentinel.

Action: Exhaust Aragorn to choose a location in the staging area. Until the end of the phase, that location gets -X where X is Aragorn's If this effect reduces the location's to 0, place 1 progress on it. (Limit once per round.)

Response: After Thorin Stonehelm is declared as an attacker, discard the top card of your deck to deal 1 damage to an enemy engaged with you.

Thorin III Stonehelm, Dain's son, became King under the mountain.
–The Return of the King

If Éomer is in play, Lothíriel gains the Rohan trait.

Response: After Lothíriel commits to a quest, choose an ally in your hand. If that ally shares a Trait with her, put that ally into play exhausted and committed to the quest. At the end of the phase, if that ally is still in play, shuffle it into your deck.

When a player card effect would reduce your threat by any amount, reduce that amount to 1.

While playing an event with the printed doomed keyword, Saruman gains the printed , , and icons.

Response: After you play a card with the doomed keyword, ready Saruman.

Action: Pay 1 resource from Gildor Inglorion's resource pool to choose a player to draw 1 card (Limit once per round.)

"Gildor Inglorion of the House of Finrod. We are Exiles, and most of our kindred have long ago departed..."
–The Fellowship of the Ring

Ranged. Sentinel.

Cannot have restricted attachments. Gwaihir does not ready during the refresh phase.

Response: After an Eagle ally enters or leaves play, ready Gwaihir. (Limit once per phase.)

Sentinel.

Action: Exhaust Aragorn to choose a location in the staging area. Until the end of the phase, that location gets -X where X is Aragorn's If this effect reduces the location's to 0, place 1 progress on it. (Limit once per round.)

The first player gains control of Bilbo Baggins.

Bilbo Baggins cannot gain resources from player card effects.

If Bilbo Baggins leaves play, the players lose the game.

If you control at least 5 Dwarf characters, add 1 additional resource to Thorin Oakenshield's pool when you collect resources during the resource phase.

"I am Thorin son of Thrain son of Thror, King under the Mountain!" –Thorin, The Hobbit

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

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

If you control at least 5 Dwarf characters, draw 1 additional card at the beginning of the resource phase.

"He could write well and speedily, and often used the Elvish characters." –Gimli, The Fellowship of the Ring

Sentinel. Cannot have attachments.

Immune to player card effects.

Beorn does not exhaust to defend.

The roar of his voice was like drums and guns; and he tossed wolves and goblins from his path like straws and feathers.
–The Hobbit

Bilbo Baggins does not count against the hero limit and cannot gain resources from non-treasure cards. The first player gains control of Bilbo Baggins.

Action: Spend 1 resource to search your deck for a treasure card and add it to your hand.

If Bilbo Baggins leaves play, the players have lost the game.

Response: Pay 1 resource from Balin's resource pool to cancel a shadow effect just triggered during an attack. Then, deal the attacking enemy another shadow card. (Limit once per attack.)

"Well, it is the first time that even a mouse has crept along carefully and quietly under my very nose and not been spotted." –The Hobbit

Ranged.

When Bard the Bowman makes a ranged attack, the enemy he attacks gets -2 until the end of the phase.

Now he shot with a great yew bow, till all his arrows but one were spent. –The Hobbit

While you control at least 5 Dwarf characters, Óin gets +1 and gains the resource icon.

Dwarves can make fire almost anywhere out of almost anything, wind or no wind... –The Hobbit

When counting the number of Dwarf characters you control, Bombur counts as two.

"Bombur is fattest and will do for two, he had better come alone and last." –Gandalf, 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

Merry gets +1 for each Hobbit hero you control.

Response: After Merry participates in an attack that destroys an enemy, ready another character that participated in that attack.

"You can trust us to stick to you through thick and thin to the bitter end" –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

Action: Exhaust Fatty Bolger to choose an enemy in the staging area and raise your threat by that enemy's . Until the end of the phase, that enemy does not contribute its . (Limit once per round.)

"I only hope that you do not need rescuing before the day is out" –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

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

Action: Spend 2 resources from Aragorn's resource pool to ready a hero.

"I am Aragorn son of Arathorn and am called Elessar, the Elfstone, Dunadan, the heir of Isildur Elendil’s son of Gondor."
–The Two Towers

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

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

Ranged.

Response: After you engage an enemy, ready an ally you control. (Limit once per phase.)

"That will be the Captain: he can master both beasts and men" –Beregond, The Return of the King

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

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

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

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

Planning Action: Exhaust The One Ring to add 1 resource to a hero's pool.

"I must carry the burden to the end."
–The Return of the King

Sentinel. The first player gains control of Aragorn.

Action: Spend 1 resource from Aragorn's pool to ready him. (Limit once per phase.)

If Aragorn leaves play the players lose the game.

“As I have begun, so I will go on.”
–The Return of the King

Response: After Éomer commits to the quest, spend 1 resource from his resource pool to immediately declare him as an attacker (and resolve his attack) against an enemy in the staging area.

...he was young, and he was king; the lord of a fell people.
–The Return of the King

While you are engaged with an enemy with an engagement cost higher than your threat, the first Hobbit ally you play each round does not require a resource match.

Response: After a Hobbit ally enters play, it gets +2 until the end of the round.

Sentinel.

Response: After Aragorn commits to a quest, spend 1 resource from his resource pool to ready him.

Gimli gets +1 for each damage token on him.

Sentinel.

Response: After Aragorn commits to a quest, spend 1 resource from his resource pool to ready him.

Ranged.

Response: After Legolas participates in an attack that destroys an enemy, place 2 progress tokens on the current quest.

Action: Raise your threat by 1 to ready Boromir.

Action: Discard Boromir to deal 2 damage to each enemy engaged with a single player.

Ranged. Response: After you engage an enemy, ready an ally you control. (Limit once per phase.)

Response: After a Silvan ally enters play, that ally gets +1 +1 and +1 until the end of the 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.)

Action: Pay 1 resource from Glorfindel's pool to heal 1 damage on any character. (Limit once per round.)

Action: Discard 1 card from your hand to give Éowyn +1 until the end of the phase. This effect may be triggered by each player once each round.