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: After Lórien Guide commits to a quest, place 1 progress token on the active location.

"Indeed deep in the wood they dwell..." –Aragorn, The Fellowship of the Ring

Response: After Northern Tracker commits to a quest, place 1 progress token on each location in the staging area.

"What roads would any dare to tread, what safety would there be in quiet lands, or in the homes of simple men at night, if the Dúnedain were asleep, or were all gone into the grave?"
–Aragorn, The Fellowship of the Ring

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 Zigil Miner and name a number to discard the top 2 cards of your deck. If at least one of those cards has cost equal to the named number, choose a hero you control. For each card that matches the named number, add 1 resource to that hero's resource pool.

Sentinel.

Response: When you play Erebor Guard from your hand, discard the top 2 cards of your deck to reduce its cost by 2.

...the fortress of the dwarves could not be taken by surprise. –The Hobbit

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.)

Response: After Galadriel's Handmaiden enters play, choose a player. That player reduces his threat by 1.

Her maidens stood silent about her, and a while she looked upon her guests. -The Fellowship of the Ring

Response: After Éomund leaves play, ready all Rohan characters in play.

"You I have not seen before, for you are young, but I have spoken with Eomund your father..." –Aragorn, The Two Towers

While committed to a quest, Escort from Edoras gets +2

Forced: After resolving a quest to which Escort from Edoras was committed, discard Escort from Edoras from play.

Response: After you play West Road Traveller from your hand, switch the active location with any other location in the staging area.

The dark world was rushing by, and the wind sang loudly in his ears.
–The Return of the King

Action: Discard a card from your hand to add 1 resource to a Noldor's resource pool, or to Aragorn's resource pool. (Limit once per round.)

...the light of stars was in her bright eyes, grey as a cloudless night; yet queenly she looked, and thought and knowledge were in her glance, as of one who has known many things that the years bring.
–The Fellowship of the Ring

Forced: After the active location is explored, place Curious Brandybuck on the bottom of its owner's deck.

Response: After you travel to a location, put Curious Brandybuck into play from your hand, under any player's control.

Response: After Lindir enters play, if you have less than 3 cards in your hand, draw until you have 3 cards in your hand.

"To sheep other sheep no doubt appear different," laughed Lindir. "Or to shepherds. But Mortals have not been our study. We have other business."
–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 unique ally belonging to any sphere of influence.

Attached character loses the ally card type and gains the hero card type.

"But why, lord, did you receive me as sword–thain, if not to stay by your side?"
–Merry, The Return of the King

Draw 1 additional card at the beginning of the resource phase.

Forced: After drawing cards at the beginning of the resource phase, choose and discard 1 of those cards.

Very tall he was, and his beard was long, and he was grey and old, save that his eyes were keen as stars...
–The Return of the King

Glorfindel can be played from your discard pile.

Action: Discard a card from your hand to ready Glorfindel. (Limit once per phase.)

"He is an Elf-lord of a house of princes."
–Gandalf, The Fellowship of the Ring

Response: After you play Linhir Sea-captain from your hand, if you paid all of its resource cost from a single hero's resource pool, both that hero and Linhir Sea-captain do not exhaust to quest this round.

Response: After Rhovanion Outrider commits to the quest, place 1 progress on a location in the staging area. If that location is not explored by this effect, give Rhovanion Outrider +1 until the end of the phase.

Reduce the cost to play Sam Gamgee by 2 if you control Frodo Baggins.

Response: After a player raises his threat, that player may spend 1 resource to ready Sam Gamgee. He gets +1 +1 and +1 until the end of the round. (Limit once per round.)

Action: Spend 1 resource to exhaust Súlien. Then, each location in the staging area gets -1 until the end of the phase. Any player may trigger this action.

Reduce the cost to play Item attachments on Descendant of Girion by 1.

–Glóin, The Fellowship of the Ring

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

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

Response: After a Rohan ally you control is discarded from play, exhaust Gamling to return that ally to your hand.

"...we have a thousand fit to fight on foot," said Gamling, an old man, the leader of those that watched the Dike. –The Two Towers

Combat Action: Ready Háma. He gets +3 until the end of the phase. At the end of the phase, discard Háma. (Limit once per round.)

"I am the Doorward of Théoden," he said. "Háma is my name." –The Two Towers

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: After Lórien Guide commits to a quest, place 1 progress token on the active location.

"Indeed deep in the wood they dwell..." –Aragorn, The Fellowship of the Ring

Response: After Northern Tracker commits to a quest, place 1 progress token on each location in the staging area.

"What roads would any dare to tread, what safety would there be in quiet lands, or in the homes of simple men at night, if the Dúnedain were asleep, or were all gone into the grave?"
–Aragorn, The Fellowship of the Ring

Response: After Arwen Undómiel exhausts, choose a character. That character gains sentinel and gets +1 until the end of the round.

...in whom it was said that the likeness of Lúthien had come on earth again...for she was the Evenstar of her people.
–The Fellowship of the Ring

Quest Action: Spend 1 resource to put Bofur into play from your hand, exhausted and commited to a quest. If you quest successfully this phase and Bofur is still in play, return him to your hand.

"Get up lazy–bones..."
–The Hobbit

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

"Let us join the throng!"
–The Hobbit

Response: After Éomund leaves play, ready all Rohan characters in play.

"You I have not seen before, for you are young, but I have spoken with Eomund your father..." –Aragorn, The Two Towers

While committed to a quest, Escort from Edoras gets +2

Forced: After resolving a quest to which Escort from Edoras was committed, discard Escort from Edoras from play.

While Elfhelm is ready, he gains:

Response: After your threat is raised as the result of questing unsuccessfully, or by an encounter or quest card effect, reduce your threat by 1.

"But my lord sends word that we must set ourselves in readiness: orders may come for a sudden move." –The Return of the King

Response: After you play West Road Traveller from your hand, switch the active location with any other location in the staging area.

The dark world was rushing by, and the wind sang loudly in his ears.
–The Return of the King

Action: Exhaust Zigil Miner and name a number to discard the top 2 cards of your deck. If at least one of those cards has cost equal to the named number, choose a hero you control. For each card that matches the named number, add 1 resource to that hero's resource pool.

Quest Action: Spend 1 resource to put Bofur into play from your hand, exhausted and committed to a quest. If you quest successfully this phase and Bofur is still in play, return him to your hand.

"Get up lazy-bones..." –The Hobbit

Action: Spend 1 resource to give control of Rider of the Mark to another player. (Limit once per round.)

Response: After Rider of the Mark changes control, discard a shadow card dealt to an enemy you are engaged with.

Response: After Arwen Undómiel exhausts, choose a character. That character gains sentinel and gets +1 until the end of the round.

...in whom it was said that the likeness of Lúthien had come on earth again...for she was the Evenstar of her people.
–The Fellowship of the Ring

Action: Exhaust Imladris Stargazer to choose a player. That player looks at the top 5 cards of his deck and then returns them to the top of his deck in any order.

Action: Discard Damrod from play to lower your threat by 1 for each enemy in the staging area.

Action: All characters get +2 and do not exhaust to defend until the end of the round.

"The beacons of Gondor are alight, calling for aid." –Gandalf, The Return of the King

Pelargir Shipwright gets +1 for each hero you control with a printed hero resource icon.

"It is forty leagues and two from Pelargir to the landings at the Harlond..."
–Aragorn, The Return of the King

Attach to a hero.

Reduce the cost to play Map of Earnil by 1 for each hero you control with a printed resource icon.

Action: Discard Map of Earnil to play any event card in your discard pile as if it were in your hand. Then, place that event on the bottom of your deck.

Action: Discard Caldara to put 1 ally from your discard pile into play for each other hero you control with a printed resource icon. (Limit once per game.)

...there is no purpose higher in the world as it now stands than the good of Gondor...
–Denethor, The Return of the King

Action: Discard the top 3 card of your deck to put Emery into play from your hand, under any player's control. Then, if any of the discarded cards have the , or sphere, discard Emery.

You may give Greyflood Wanderer doomed 2 when you play it from your hand. If you do, it gains:

Response: After you play Greyflood Wanderer, place 1 progress token on each location in play.

...others had gone west, and with the help of Aragorn and the Rangers had searched the lands far down the Greyflood... –The Fellowship of the Ring

Secrecy 2.

Response: After Celduin Traveler enters play, look at the top card of the encounter deck. If it is a location, you may discard it.

In two days going they rowed right up the Long Lake and passed out into the River Running... –The Hobbit