Response: After Galadhrim Minstrel enters play, search the top five cards of your deck for an event card and add it to your hand. Shuffle the other cards back into your deck.
...the language was that of Elven-song and spoke of things little known on Middle-earth. -The Fellowship of the Ring
Draw 3 additional cards at the beginning of the resource phase.
At the end of the round, discard all cards in your hand.
"That is the path of despair. Of folly, I would say, if the long wisdom of Elrond did not forbid me."
–The Fellowship of the Ring
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
Attach to a hero. Restricted.
Response: After a card is discarded from your hand, exhaust Silver Harp to return that card to your hand.
Elrond wore a mantle of grey and had a star upon his forehead, and a silver harp was in his hand... –The Return of the King
Response: After 1 or more cards are discarded from your hand, draw 1 card. Limit once per round.
"But have they the strength, have we here the strength to withstand the Enemy, the coming of Sauron at the last, when all else is overthrown?"
–The Fellowship of the Ring
Response: After a Warrior character is destroyed while defending against an enemy attack, deal damage to the attacking enemy equal to that character's printed .
In a grave along under the shadow of the Hornburg lay Háma, captain of the King's guard. He fell before the Gate.
–The Two Towers
When Revealed: The players cannot place more than 3 progress on the current quest this round. (This does not count progress placed on the active location.)
Shadow: Attacking enemy gets +1 If this attack destroys a character, increase the pursuit value by 1.
Setup: Attach to a Noble hero.
Response: After attached hero quests successfully, exhaust Leader of Men to add 1 resource to attached hero's pool.
"Take this, dear lord!" said a clear voice. "It was ever at your service."
–The Two Towers
Response: After Galadhrim Minstrel enters play, search the top 5 cards of your deck for an event card and add it to your hand. Shuffle the other cards back into your deck.
...the language was of Elven–song and spoke of things little now in Middle–earth.
–The Fellowship of the Ring
Limit 1 per deck. Attach to a hero.
Response: When attached hero is destroyed, add The Fall of Gil-Galad to the victory display to reduce your threat by X, where X is the attached hero's threat cost.
...for into darkness fell his star
in Mordor where the shadows are.
–The Fellowship of the Ring
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
Action: Choose a player. That player may choose 1 card from his hand and add it to another player's hand. At the end of the round, if the chosen card is in that player's hand or in play, shuffle it into its owner's deck.
"But we have heard rumours of your coming, for the messengers of Elrond passed by Lórien on the way home up the Dimrill Stair. –Haldir, The Fellowship of the Ring
Response: After Galadhrim Minstrel enters play, search the top five cards of your deck for an event card and add it to your hand. Shuffle the other cards back into your deck.
...the language was that of Elven–song and spoke of things little known on Middle–earth. –The Fellowship of the Ring
Draw 3 additional cards at the beginning of the resource phase.
At the end of the round, discard all cards in your hand.
"That is the path of despair. Of folly, I would say, if the long wisdom of Elrond did not forbid me."
–The Fellowship of the Ring
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
Attach to a hero. Restricted.
Response: After a card is discarded from your hand, exhaust Silver Harp to return that card to your hand.
Elrond wore a mantle of grey and had a star upon his forehead, and a silver harp was in his hand... –The Return of the King
Response: After 1 or more cards are discarded from your hand, draw 1 card. Limit once per round.
"But have they the strength, have we here the strength to withstand the Enemy, the coming of Sauron at the last, when all else is overthrown?"
–The Fellowship of the Ring
Response: After a Warrior character is destroyed while defending against an enemy attack, deal damage to the attacking enemy equal to that character's printed .
In a grave along under the shadow of the Hornburg lay Háma, captain of the King's guard. He fell before the Gate.
–The Two Towers
Setup: Attach to a Noble hero.
Response: After attached hero quests successfully, exhaust Leader of Men to add 1 resource to attached hero's pool.
"Take this, dear lord!" said a clear voice. "It was ever at your service."
–The Two Towers
When Revealed: The players cannot place more than 3 progress on the current quest this round. (This does not count progress placed on the active location.)
Shadow: Attacking enemy gets +1 If this attack destroys a character, increase the pursuit value by 1.
When Revealed: Attach Assassination to the hero with the highest threat cost. (Counts as a Plot attachment with the text: "Each enemy gets +1 Attached hero cannot be healed. Damage from undefended attacks and A Knife in the Back must be assigned to attached hero. If attached hero leaves play, the players lose the game.")
The weather makes the Orcs difficult to track. It requires all of your skill to read the signs in the rough terrain.
Each enemy gets +10 enagement cost and cannot be optionally engaged.
When Revealed: Reveal the top of card of the Orc deck (reveal the top 2 card instead if there are 3 or more players in the game).
Your task seems hopeless and your fate dire, but somehow you must inspire your companions to fight onward!
Shadow cards are immune to player card effects.
Response: After this quest is defeated, discard 1 shadow card from each enemy in play.