While Dáin Ironfoot is defending, he gains,"Action: Discard the top card of your deck to give Dáin Ironfoot +1 for this attack. (Limit 3 times per phase.)"

"The time of my thought is my own to spend."
–The Fellowship of the Ring

While the active location has an attachment on it, Haldan does not exhaust to quest.

Response: When the active location is explored, draw 1 card for each attachment on it.

You may use resources from Radagast's pool to pay for Creature allies of any sphere.

Response: After you play a Creature card, Radagast does not exhaust to quest this round.

"..he has much lore of herbs and beasts, and birds are especially his friends."
–Gandalf, The Fellowship of the Ring

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 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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 Attack 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

Response: After Beregond defends an attack and takes no damage, reduce the defending player's threat by 1. (L

"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 resou

"I must carry the burden to the end."

-The Return of the King

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 Attack until

Sentinel.

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

"I am Aragorn son of Arathorn; and if by life or death I can save you, I will."
–The Fellowship of the Ring

Response: After Théodred commits to a quest, choose a hero committed to that quest. Add 1 resource to that hero's resource pool.

"Not all is dark. Take courage, Lord of the Mark..."
–Gandalf, The Two Towers

Response: After Glóin suffers damage, add 1 resource to his resource pool for each point of damage he just suffered.

His beard, very long and forked, was white, nearly as white as the snow-white cloth of his garments.
–The Fellowship of the Ring

Gimli gets +1 for each damage token on him.

"Men need many words before deeds. My axe is restless in my hands."
–The Two Towers

Ranged.

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

"I can walk this path, but others have not this skill."
–The Fellowship of the Ring

While Thalin is committed to a quest, deal 1 damage to each enemy as it is revealed by the encounter deck.

There hammer on the anvil smote,
There chisel clove, and graver wrote;
There forged was blade, and bound was hilt;
The delver mined, the mason built.
–The Fellowship of the Ring

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.

Slender and tall she was in her white robe girt with silver; but strong she seemed and stern as steel, a daughter of kings.
–The Two Towers

Response: Exhaust Eleanor to cancel the "when revealed" effects of a treachery card just revealed by the encounter deck. Then, discard that card, and replace it with the next card from the encounter deck.

"Gondor wanes, you say. But Gondor stands, and even the end of its strength is very strong."
–Boromir, The Fellowship of the Ring

Dúnhere can target enemies in the staging area when he attacks alone. When doing so, he gets +1 .

Captains rode to meet him at the ford, bearing messages from Gandalf. Dúnhere, chieftain of the folk of Harrowdale, was at their head.
–The Return of the King

Action: Exhaust Denethor to look at the top card of the encounter deck. You may move that card to the bottom of the deck.

"And the lord Denethor is unlike other men: he sees far."
–Beregond, The Return of the King

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

"You saw him for a moment as he is upon the other side: one of the mighty of the firstborn."
–Gandalf, The Fellowship of the Ring

Action: Exhaust Beravor to choose a player. That player draws 2 cards. Limit once per round.

But in the wild lands beyond Bree there were mysterious wanderers. The Bree-folk called them Rangers, and knew nothing of their origin.
–The Fellowship of the Ring

Sentinel.

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

"I am Aragorn son of Arathorn; and if by life or death I can save you, I will."
–The Fellowship of the Ring

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

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

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

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

"You saw him for a moment as he is upon the other side: one of the mighty of the firstborn."
–Gandalf, The Fellowship of the Ring

Action: Pay 1 resource from a hero's resource pool to add 1 resource to Bifur's resource pool. Any player may trigger this ability. (Limit once per round.)

"And winter comes after autumn." – Bifur, The Hobbit

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

The first player draws 1 additional card in the resource phase.

"Well, my dear fellow," said Bilbo, "now you've heard the news, can't you spare me a moment? I want your help in something urgent."
–The Fellowship of the Ring

Response: After Frodo Baggins is damaged, cancel the damage and instead raise your threat by the amount of damage he would have been dealt. (Limit once per phase.)

Frodo began to feel restless, and the old paths seemed too well–trodden. he looked at maps and wondered what lay beyond their edges... –The Fellowship of the Ring

Response: After a character leaves play, ready Prince Imrahil. (Limit once per round.)

But beyond, in the great fief of Belfalas, dwelt Prince Imrahil in his castle of Dol Amroth by the sea, and he was of high blood, and his fold also, tall men and proud with sea-grey eyes. –The Return of the King.

Ranged.

Response: After Brand son of Bain attacks and defeats an enemy engaged with another player, choose and ready one of that player's characters.

"The grandson of Bard the Bowman rules them, Brand son of Bain son of Bard."
–Glóin, The Fellowship of the Ring

Action: Raise your threat by 1 to ready Boromir. (Limit once per phase.)

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

"...in Gondor we must trust to such weapons as we have." –The Fellowship of the Ring

While Dáin Ironfoot is ready, Dwarf characters get +1 and +1 .

"You have not heard of Dain and the dwarves of the Iron Hills?" –Bilbo Baggins, The Hobbit

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

Action: Pay 1 resource from a hero's resource pool to add 1 resource to Bifur's resource pool. Any player may trigger this ability. (Limit once per round.)

"And winter comes after autumn." – Bifur, The Hobbit

While Elladan is in play, Elrohir gets +2 .

Response: After Elrohir is declared as a defender, pay 1 resource from his resource pool to ready him.

"We will not turn back."
–The Return of the King