Action: Discard the top card of your deck. If the discarded card's printed cost is equal to or higher than the number of characters you control, draw 2 cards and deal 2 damage to any enemy.
Action: Reveal the top 5 cards of your deck and put 1 revealed ally into play, if able. Shuffle all other revealed cards back into your deck.
Action: Choose a character you control. Until the end of the phase, that character gets +3 
while attacking an enemy with a higher engagement cost than your threat.
Attach to a hero. Limit 1 per hero.
Attached hero gets +1 for each resource token on another copy of Keeping Count that is above the current number of resource tokens on this card.
Forced: After attached hero attacks and destroys an enemy, place 1 resource token on this card.
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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
Response: After another player plays an attachment on a hero you control, you may (choose 1):
- ready 1 of that player's heroes
- have that player draw 1 card
- lower that player's threat by 2.
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Action: Exhaust Ravenhill Scout to move up to 2 progress tokens from 1 location to another location.
"They made their first camp on the western side of the great southern spur, which ended in a height called Ravenhill." –The Hobbit
Action: Raise your threat by 1 to look at the top card of the encounter deck. Then, reduce your threat by X, where X is the threat of that card.
Celeborn has bid you to visit her father in Rivendell. Your journey takes you though the Redhorn Gate...
Setup: Add Caradhras to the staging area. Remove all copies of Snowstorm from the encounter deck and set them aside, out of play. Put Arwen Undómiel into play under the control of the first player.
When Revealed: Reveal 1 card from the encounter deck per player, and add it to the staging area.
Progress slows as you meet the fury of the mountains. Sudden snows fall heavy around you, and a bitter wind howls down from the peaks. You uncover a shallow depression in the snow, filled with frozen remains. Some of them bear strange markings, as if they had been burned with flame. How many other doomed souls lie beneath the quickly rising drifts?
When Revealed: Shuffle 1 more copy of Snowstorm into the encounter deck than the number of players in the game.
Forced: After placing the 11th pprocess token on Snowdrifts, discard any action location. Ccaradhras becomes the active location.
The mountain peaks are almost in reach, but the swirling snows make it difficult to see, and your strength begins to drain away with the daunting final push to the pinnacle.
When Revealed: Shuffle all copies of Snowstorm in the encounter discard pile back into the encounter deck.
Characters are discarded from play if their Willpower is ever 0.
Players cannot defeat this stage unless they have 5 victory points. If the players defeat this stage, they have won the game.
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The first player gains control of Arwen Undómiel, as an ally.
Response: After Arwen Undómiel exhausts, choose a hero. Add 1 resource to that hero's resource pool.
If Arwen Undómiel leaves play, the players are defeated.
Travel: Reshuffle all locations in the discard pile and victory display back into the encounter deck. If you reshuffled at least two locations, reduce each player's threat by 11 and discard all copies of Freezing Cold from play.
When Revealed: The first player (choose 1):
- removes all progress tokens from play
- reveals 2 cards from the encounter deck and adds them to the staging area
Shadow: attacking enemy gets +1 for each progress token on the active location.
When Revealed: Exhaust each ready character and if it is the quest phase commit them to the quest.
Every now and again they heard a dull rumble, as a great boulder rolled down from hidden heights.
–The Fellowship of the Ring
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Allies cannot defend while Snow Warg is attacking.
Forced: After a character is declared as a defender against Snow Warg, deal 1 damage to the defending character, if able.