Surge.

When Revealed: Place 1 progress token on To the Tower.

Shadow: Attacking enemy gets +1 for each progress token on To the Tower.

When Revealed: Raise each players' threat by the number of progress tokens on To the Tower. If there are no progress tokens on To the Tower, The Dead City Looms gains Surge.

Shadow: Attacking enemy gets +1 for each progress token on To the Tower.

Action: Lower the cost of the next card you play from your hand this round by 1. That card gains Doomed 1. (Limit once per round.)

"Let your counsellor Gríma keep all things till your return – and I pray that we may see it, though no wise man will deem it hopeful." –The Two Towers

Response: After you raise your threat from the Doomed keyword, Isengard Messenger gets +1 until the end of the round. (Limit twice per round.)

"I have an urgent errand," he said. "My news is evil." –Radagast, The Fellowship of the Ring

While Fords of Isen is in the staging area, players cannot gain resources from card effects.

Forced: After Fords of Isen becomes the active location, each player with fewer than 5 cards in his hand draws cards until he has 5 in his hand.

The road dipped between rising turf–banks, carving its way through the terraces to the river's edge, and up again upon the further side. –The Two Towers

When Revealed: Each player searches the encounter deck and discard pile for a location and adds it to the staging area. If the total in the staging area is less than the total of all characters committed to the quest, each Orc enemy engaged with a player makes an immediate attack.

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

"...the lord of the Galadhrim is accounted wisest of the Elves of Middle–earth, and a giver of gifts beyond the power of kings." –Galadriel, The Fellowship of the Ring

When Revealed: Each player draws a card. Each player discard each ally from his hand. If no allies were discarded this way, Frenzied Attack gains Surge.

Shadow: Until the end of the round, attacking enemy cannot take damage.

You may give Herald of Anórien doomed 2 when you play it from your hand. If you do, it gains:

Response: After you play Herald of Anórien, choose a player. That player may put into play 1 ally from his hand with a printed cost 2 or lower.

"Send the heralds forth! Let them summon all who dwell nigh!" –Théoden, The Two Towers

Attach to a hero.

Action: Exhaust O Lórien! to lower the cost of the next Silvan ally played this phase by 1 (to a minimum of 1).

"I sang of leaves, of leaves of gold, and
leaves of gold there grew:
Of wind I sang, a wind there came and in the
branches blew." –Galadriel, The Fellowship of the Ring

Action: Choose a hero. That hero gets +2 until the end of the phase. Then, if your threat is 20 or less and this is the first time you played a copy of Courage Awakened this round, return this card to your hand instead of discarding it.

But the courage that had been awakened in him was now too strong: he could not leave his friends so easily. –The Fellowship of the Ring

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

While Sinking Bog is in the staging area, each character gets -1 -1 and -1 for each Item attached to it. This ability does not stack with other copies of Sinking Bog.

Shadow: Defending character gets -1 for this attack for each attachment attached to it.

Attach to Galadriel. She gains a resource icon.

Quest Action: Exhaust Nenya and Galadriel to add her to another character's until the end of the phase.

"The is Nenya, the Ring of Adamant, and I am its keeper." –Galadriel, The Fellowship of the Ring

Warden of Annúminas gets +1 for each enemy engaged with you.

Rangers passed at times beyond the hills, but they were few and did not stay. –The Fellowship of the Ring

Attach to a Dúnedain or Noldor hero. Limit 1 per hero.

While you are engaged with an enemy, attached hero gets +1 and cannot have its reduced.

...each cloak was pinned upon the left shoulder by a brooch of silver shaped like a rayed star. –The Return of the King

When Revealed: If the total of characters committed to the quest is greater than the total in the staging area, each enemy in the staging area makes an immediate attack against the first player. If no attach is made this way, search the encounter deck and discard pile for an Orc War Party and add it to the staging area. Shuffle the encounter deck. This effect cannot be canceled.

When Revealed: Each player assigns X damage among characters he controls, where X is the number of quest cards in play. Then, exhaust each damaged character.

Shadow: Assign X damage among characters you control. X is the number of quest cards in play.

When Revealed: Assign X damage among characters commited to the quest. X is the number of characters committed to the quest.

Shadow: Deal 1 damage to the defending character.

Doomed 2.

When Revealed: Remove each damaged character from the quest.

Shadow: Attacking enemy gets +1 for each damaged character the defending player controls.

Ingold gets +1 for each hero you control with at least 1 resource in its resource pool.

"We wish for no strangers in the land at this time, unless they be mighty men of arms in whose faith and help we can trust." —The Return of the King

East Road Ranger gets +2 while committed to a side quest.

"If you bring a Ranger with you, it is well to pay attention to him..."
–Gandalf, the Fellowship of the Ring

When Revealed: If it is Night, raise each player's threat by 4. If it is Day, flip the Time objective to Nightfall.

Shadow: Put the topmost Warg enemy from the discard pile into play engaged with you and deal it a shadow card.

If the active location shares a Trait with a location in the victory display, Rossiel gets +2 .

If the attacking enemy shares a Trait with an enemy in the victory display, Rossiel gets +2 .

"Did you not say that you wished to see Elf-magic?"
–Galadriel, The Fellowship of the Ring

Veteran of Osgiliath gets +1 , +1 , and +1 while your threat is 40 or higher.

"So do we ever watch the shores nigh Osgiliath, which our enemies now partly hold, and issue from it to harry our lands."
–Faramir, The Two Towers

Action: Choose a Noldor or Silvan character.

Until the end of the phase, add that character's to its .

"...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

While Troll-fells is the active location, Weather cards gain doomed 1.

When Revealed: If Troll-fells is not revealed guarding a safe location, search the encounter deck and discard pile for a location with the safe keyword and attach it to Troll-fells, guarded. Shuffle the encounter deck.

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

Action: Exhaust Amarthiúl or a hero to claim Heirloom of Iârchon. Then, attach Heirloom of Iârchon to that character.

Attached character gets +1 .

You find a pendant, similar to the one you've seen Iârion wearing. The inscription on the back says:
"Iârchon, may this pendant guide you away from the shadow that dwells within us all. –Your loving father"

Lords of the Eldar can only be played from your discard pile.

Action: Place Lords of the Eldar on the bottom of your deck from your discard pile. Then, until the end of the round all Noldor characters get +1 , +1 , and +1 .

When Revealed: Each player must discard a random card from his hand. Each player then searces his deck for each other copy of the card he discarded, and discards those as well. Shuffle each searched deck.

Shadow: Discard a random card from the defending player's hand.

Attach to a Dúnedain 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 Númenor to add 1 resource to attached hero's resource pool.

...the flowing characters of Númenor glinted like fire upon the blade.
–The Fellowship of the Ring

Action: Exhaust a Noldor character to ready a Dúnedain character, or vice-versa. Until the end of the phase, add the exhausted character's printed to the other character's and .

Long was the way that fate them bore,
O'er stony mountains cold and grey,
Through halls of iron and darkling door,
And woods of nightshade morrowless.
–The Fellowship of the Ring

Forced: When Wraith of Carn Dûm leaves play, attach it to a character in play. Counts as a Sorcery attachment with the text:

Attached character has -1 , -1 , and -1 If the attached character leaves play, return Wraith of Carn Dûm to the staging area as an enemy.

When Revealed: The player with the highest threat must attach A Fell Dread to a hero he controls without A Fell Dread Attached. Counts as a Condition attachment with the text:

Attached hero's is reduced to 0. During the quest phase, attached hero must commit to the quest, if able.

Attach to a character.

Quest Action: Discard Grappling Hook and exhaust attached character to commit attached character to the quest, using its instead of its (or instead of its if the current quest has the siege keyword).

While the top card of your discard pile is an event, Sailor of Lune gets +1 and gains: "Cannot be damaged while committed to the quest."

"They are sailing, sailing, sailing over the Sea, they are going into the West and leaving us," said Sam, half chanting the words, shaking his head sadly and solemnly.
–The Fellowship of the Ring

Quest Action: Ready a questing character and give that character +1 until the end of the phase. Resolve that effect again for each copy of Elwing’s Flight currently in your discard pile (you may choose different targets).

There flying Elwing came to him
and flame was in the darkness lit;
more bright than light of diamond
the fire upon her carcanet.
–The Fellowship of the Ring

Forced: After Sahír’s Ravager attacks, place 1 resource on it. Then, deal X damage to the Aflame location in play with the lowest Aflame value, where X is the number of resources on Sahír’s Ravager.

When Revealed: Either shift your heading off-couse, or deal 1 damage to each exhausted character.

Shadow: Excess damage from this attack is dealt to a Ship objective you control.

When Revealed: If you are off-course, deal 1 damage to each character in play. If your heading is at the worst setting (), this effect cannot be canceled.

Shadow: Either shift your heading off-course or treat this attack as undefended.

When Revealed: The players, as a group, must remove characters with a total of at least X from the quest. X is the number of Uncharted locations in the staging area. The first player may give Aimless Wandering doomed 2 to look at the facedown side of an Uncharted location in the staging area.

The first player gains control of Captain Sahír.

Captain Sahír gets +1 and +1 for each resource on him (max +6).

Action: Spend 1 resource from a hero you control to place 1 resource on Captain Sahír. (Limit once per round).

If Captain Sahír leaves play, the players lose.