![](/Images/Cards/The-Fellowship-of-the-Ring/Noble-Hero.jpg)
Setup: Attach to a hero.
Attached hero gets +1 and gains the Noble trait.
Venerable he seemed as a king crowned with many winters, and yet hale as a tried warrior in the fullness of his strength.
–The Fellowship of the Ring
![](/Images/Cards/The-Fellowship-of-the-Ring/Sting.jpg)
Attach to a Hobbit hero.
Attached hero gets +1 +1
and +1
.
Response: After attached hero exhausts to defend an attack, discard the top card of the encounter deck. Deal damage to the attacking enemy equal to the discarded card's .
![](/Images/Cards/The-Fellowship-of-the-Ring/Mithril-Shirt.jpg)
Attach to the Ring-bearer.
Attached hero gets +1 and +1 hit point.
"I should feel happier if I knew you were wearing it. I have a fancy it would turn even the knives of the Black Riders..." –Bilbo, The Fellowship of the Ring
![](/Images/Cards/The-Fellowship-of-the-Ring/Glamdring.jpg)
Attach to a Warrior hero or Gandalf. Restricted.
Attached character gets +2 .
Response: After attached character destroys an Orc enemy, draw 1 card.
"...at his side was the elven–sword Glamdring, the mate of Orcrist that lay now upon the breast of Thorin under the Lonely Mountain." –The Fellowship of the Ring
![](/Images/Cards/The-Fellowship-of-the-Ring/AndĂșril.jpg)
Attach to a Noble hero or Aragorn. Restricted.
Attached hero gets +1 +1
and +1
.
Response: After an attack in which the attached hero defended resolves, exhaust AndĂșril to target the enemy that just attacked. Declare attached hero as an attacker against that enemy (and resolve the attack).
![](/Images/Cards/The-Fellowship-of-the-Ring/Phial-of-Galadriel.jpg)
Setup: Attach to a hero in play.
Add Phial of Galadriel to the victory display and remove it from the campaign pool, to give each enemy engaged with you -4 until the end of the round.
"May it be a light to you in dark places, when all other lights go out." –Galadriel, The Fellowship of the Ring
![](/Images/Cards/The-Fellowship-of-the-Ring/Three-Golden-Hairs.jpg)
Setup: Attach to a hero in play.
Action: Add Three Golden Hairs to the victory display and remove it from the campaign pool, to lower each player's threat by 3. Then, each player draws 3 cards.
"...your hands shall flow with gold, and yet over you gold shall have no dominion." –Galadriel, The Fellowship of the Ring
![](/Images/Cards/The-Fellowship-of-the-Ring/LĂłrien-Rope.jpg)
![](/Images/Cards/The-Fellowship-of-the-Ring/Leaf-wrapped-Lembas.jpg)
Setup: Attach to a hero in play.
Action: Add Leaf-wrapped Lembas to the victory display, and remove it from the campaign pool, to ready all heroes in play.
Often in their hearts they thanked the lady of LoÌrien for the gift of lembas, for they could eat of it and find new strength even as they ran. –The Two Towers
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![](/Images/Cards/The-Two-Towers/Staff-of-Lebethron.jpg)
Attach to a Gondor or Hobbit hero. Restricted.
Response: After attached hero exhausts to defend an attack from an enemy with engagement cost higher than your threat, exhaust Staff of Lebethron to discard a shadow card from that enemy.
"They are made of the fair tree lebethron, beloved of the woodwrights of Gondor..." –Faramir, The Two Towers
![](/Images/Tactics-med.png)
![](/Images/Cards/The-Two-Towers/Arod.jpg)
![](/Images/Spirit-med.png)
![](/Images/Cards/The-Two-Towers/Herugrim.jpg)
Attach to a Rohan hero. Restricted.
Reduce the cost to play Herugrim on Théoden by 1.
Response: After attached hero is declared as an attacker, exhaust Herugrim to add attached hero's to its
for this attack.
"Here, lord, is Herugrim, your ancient blade." –HĂĄma, The Two Towers
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![](/Images/Cards/The-Two-Towers/Snowmane.jpg)
Attach to a Rohan hero. Restricted.
If attached hero is Théoden, Snowmane loses the restricted keyword.
Response: After attached hero quests successfully, ready attached hero.
Suddenly the king cried to Snowmane and the horse sprang away. –The Return of the King
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![](/Images/Cards/The-Two-Towers/Ambush.jpg)
Play Ambush into the staging area unattached. If unattached, attach Ambush to the next eligible enemy that enters the staging area.
Combat Action: The engaged player discards Ambush to declare an attack against the attached enemy.
"But we have a new errand on this journey: we come to ambush the Men of Harad." –Mablung, The Two Towers
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![](/Images/Cards/The-Two-Towers/Ent-Draught.jpg)
Play only if you control at least 1 Ent character.
Attach to a character. Limit 1 per character.
Attached character gets +2 hit points.
The effect of the draught began at the toes, and rose steadily through every limb, bringing refreshment and vigour as it coursed upwards, right to the tips of the hair. –The Two Towers
![](/Images/Cards/The-Two-Towers/Intimidation.jpg)
Setup: Attach to a Warrior hero.
Response: After attached hero is declared as the only attacker against a non-unique enemy, exhaust Intimidation to give that enemy -2 for this attack.
"None knows what the new day shall bring him," said Aragorn. "Get you gone, ere it turn to your evil!"
–Aragorn, The Two Towers
![](/Images/Cards/The-Two-Towers/Hands-of-a-Healer.jpg)
Setup: Attach to a Healer hero.
Action: Exhaust attached hero and Hands of a Healer to heal up to 3 damage from a hero.
"Life to the dying
In the king's hand lying!"
–Herb–master, The Return of the King
![](/Images/Cards/The-Two-Towers/Forewarned.jpg)
Setup: Attach to a Ranger hero.
Response: After attached hero is declared as a defender against a non-unique enemy, exhaust Forewarned to discard 1 shadow card from that enemy.
"Faint and far are the feet of our enemies."
–Aragorn, The Two Towers
![](/Images/Cards/The-Two-Towers/Leader-of-Men.jpg)
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
![](/Images/Cards/The-Two-Towers/Beyond-All-Hope.jpg)
Setup: Attach to a hero.
Attached hero gets +1 +1
+1
and cannot have treachery card attachments.
"Beyond all hope you return to us in our need!"
–Aragorn, The Two Towers
![](/Images/Cards/The-Two-Towers/PalantĂr-of-Orthanc.jpg)
Quest Action: Exhaust Aragorn and PalantĂr of Orthanc to discard the top card of the encounter deck. If Aragorn's is greater than the discarded card's
you may add PalantĂr of Orthanc to the victory display and remove it from the campaign pool to choose a player. That player reveals 1 fewer encounter card this phase (to a minimum of 0).
![](/Images/Leadership-med.png)
![](/Images/Cards/Core-Set/Steward-of-Gondor.jpg)
![Popularity 10/10 (Rank 3004499)](/Images/gold-ring.png)
Attach to a hero.
Attached hero gains the Gondor trait.
Action: Exhaust Steward of Gondor to add 2 resources to attached hero's resource pool.
"It was commanded yesterday."
–Denethor, The Return of the King
![](/Images/Leadership-med.png)
![](/Images/Cards/Core-Set/CelebrĂan's-Stone.jpg)
![Popularity 10/10 (Rank 1052820)](/Images/gold-ring.png)
Attach to a hero. Restricted.
Attached hero gains +2
If attached hero is Aragorn, he also gains a resource icon.
"You needn't," said Bilbo. "As a matter of fact it was all mine. Except that Aragorn insisted on my putting in a green stone. He seemed to think it important. I don't know why."
–The Fellowship of the Ring
![](/Images/Tactics-med.png)
![](/Images/Cards/Core-Set/Blade-of-Gondolin.jpg)
![Popularity 8/10 (Rank 488641)](/Images/gold-ring.png)
Attach to a hero. Restricted.
Attached hero gets +1 when attacking an Orc.
Response: After attached hero attacks and destroys an enemy, place 1 progress token on the current quest.
It was rather splendid to be wearing a blade made in Gondolin for the goblin–wars of which so many songs had sung...
–The Hobbit
![](/Images/Tactics-med.png)
![](/Images/Cards/Core-Set/Dwarven-Axe.jpg)
![Popularity 6/10 (Rank 299812)](/Images/gold-ring.png)
Attach to a hero. Restricted.
Attached hero gains +1 (+2
instead if attached hero is a Dwarf.)
"But keep your bow ready to hand, and I will keep my axe loose in my belt."
–Gimli, The Two Towers
![](/Images/Tactics-med.png)
![](/Images/Cards/Core-Set/Horn-of-Gondor.jpg)
![Popularity 9/10 (Rank 537539)](/Images/gold-ring.png)
Attach to a hero. Restricted.
Response: After a character is destroyed, add 1 resource to attached hero's pool.
'Slow should you be to wind that horn again, Boromir,' said Elrond, 'until you stand once more on the borders of your land, and dire need is on you.'
–The Fellowship of the Ring
![](/Images/Spirit-med.png)
![](/Images/Cards/Core-Set/The-Favor-of-the-Lady.jpg)
![Popularity 6/10 (Rank 276256)](/Images/gold-ring.png)
Attach to a hero.
Attached hero gains +1 .
"You are indeed high in the favor of the Lady!"
–Unnamed Elf of LĂłrien,
The Fellowship of the Ring
![](/Images/Spirit-med.png)
![](/Images/Cards/Core-Set/Power-in-the-Earth.jpg)
![Popularity 2/10 (Rank 73865)](/Images/gold-ring.png)
Attach to a location.
Attached location gets -1 .
"Power to defy our Enemy is not in him, unless shuch power is in the earth itself."
–Gandalf, The Fellowship of the Ring
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![](/Images/Cards/Core-Set/Unexpected-Courage.jpg)
![Popularity 10/10 (Rank 2852405)](/Images/gold-ring.png)
Attach to a hero.
Action: Exhaust Unexpected Courage to ready attached hero.
"Here am I, naughty little fly;
you are fat and lazy.
You cannot trap me, though you try,
in your cobwebs crazy."
–Bilbo Baggins, The Hobbit
![](/Images/Lore-med.png)
![](/Images/Cards/Core-Set/Forest-Snare.jpg)
![Popularity 10/10 (Rank 684953)](/Images/gold-ring.png)
Attach to an enemy engaged with a player.
Attached enemy cannot attack.
"We shall have it like a coney in a trap. Then we shall learn what kind of thing it is."
–Unidentified Man of Gondor,
The Two Towers
![](/Images/Lore-med.png)
![](/Images/Cards/Core-Set/Protector-of-LĂłrien.jpg)
![Popularity 10/10 (Rank 738436)](/Images/gold-ring.png)
Attach to a hero.
Action: Discard a card from your hand to give attached hero +1 or +1
until the end of the phase. Limit 3 times per phase.
'Speak no evil of the lady Galadriel!' said Aragorn sternly. 'There is in her and in this land no evil, unless a man bring it hither himself. Then let him beware.'
–The Fellowship of the Ring
![](/Images/Lore-med.png)
![](/Images/Cards/Core-Set/Dark-Knowledge.jpg)
![Popularity 1/10 (Rank 61419)](/Images/gold-ring.png)
Attach to a hero. Attached hero gets -1
Response: Exhaust Dark Knowledge to look at 1 shadow card that was just dealt to an enemy attacking you.
'Go on then!' said Frodo. 'What do you know?'
'Too much; too many dark things,' said Strider grimly.
–The Fellowship of the Ring
![](/Images/Lore-med.png)
![](/Images/Cards/Core-Set/Self-Preservation.jpg)
![Popularity 9/10 (Rank 513637)](/Images/gold-ring.png)
Attach to a character.
Action: Exhaust Self Preservation to heal 2 points of damage from attached character.
...how much more of this would they have to endure, or could they endure?
–The Two Towers
![](/Images/Leadership-med.png)
![](/Images/Cards/Two-Player-Limited-Edition-Starter/CelebrĂan's-Stone.jpg)
![Popularity 10/10 (Rank 1052820)](/Images/gold-ring.png)
![](/Images/Leadership-med.png)
![](/Images/Cards/Two-Player-Limited-Edition-Starter/Steward-of-Gondor.jpg)
![Popularity 10/10 (Rank 3004499)](/Images/gold-ring.png)
Attach to a hero.
Attached hero gains the Gondor trait.
Action: Exhaust Steward of Gondor to add 2 resources to attached hero's resource pool.
![](/Images/Spirit-med.png)
![](/Images/Cards/Two-Player-Limited-Edition-Starter/Light-of-Valinor.jpg)
![Popularity 10/10 (Rank 1559546)](/Images/gold-ring.png)
Attach to a Nolder or Silvan hero.
Attached hero does not exhaust to commit to a quest.
"...those who have dwelt in the Blessed Ralm live at once in both worlds, and against both the Seen and Unseen they have great power."
–Gandalf, The Fellowship of the Ring
![](/Images/Spirit-med.png)
![](/Images/Cards/Two-Player-Limited-Edition-Starter/Unexpected-Courage.jpg)
![Popularity 10/10 (Rank 2852405)](/Images/gold-ring.png)
Attach to a hero.
Action: Exhaust Unexpected Courage to ready attached hero.
"You cannot trap me, though you try,
in your cobwebs crazy."
–Bilbo Baggins, The Hobbit
![](/Images/Spirit-med.png)
![](/Images/Cards/Two-Player-Limited-Edition-Starter/Ancient-Mathom.jpg)
![Popularity 10/10 (Rank 890573)](/Images/gold-ring.png)
Attach to a location.
Response: After attached location is explored, the first player draws 3 cards.
...anything that Hobbits had no immediate use for, but were unwilling to throw away, they called mathom.
The Fellowship of the Ring
![](/Images/Leadership-med.png)
![](/Images/Cards/Two-Player-Limited-Edition-Starter/Cram.jpg)
![Popularity 10/10 (Rank 640929)](/Images/gold-ring.png)
Attach to a hero.
Action: Discard Cram to ready attached hero.
If you want to know what cram is, I can only say that I don't know the recipe; but it is biscuitish, keeps good indefinitely, is supposed to be sustaining, and is certainly not entertaining...
–The Hobbit
![](/Images/Tactics-med.png)
![](/Images/Cards/Two-Player-Limited-Edition-Starter/Horn-of-Gondor.jpg)
![Popularity 9/10 (Rank 537539)](/Images/gold-ring.png)
Attach to a hero. Restricted.
Response: After a character is destroyed, add 1 resource to attached hero's pool.
"Slow should you be to wind that horn again, Boromir," said Elrond, "until you stand once more on the border of your land, and dire need is on you."
–The Fellowship of the Ring
![](/Images/Lore-med.png)
![](/Images/Cards/Two-Player-Limited-Edition-Starter/Elf-stone.jpg)
![Popularity 8/10 (Rank 468402)](/Images/gold-ring.png)
Attach to the active location. Attached location gets +1 quest point.
Response: After attached location leaves play as an explored location, the first player puts 1 ally into play from his hand.
![](/Images/Tactics-med.png)
![](/Images/Cards/Two-Player-Limited-Edition-Starter/Dwarrowdelf-Axe.jpg)
![Popularity 7/10 (Rank 393879)](/Images/gold-ring.png)
Attach to a Dwarf character. Restricted.
Attached hero gains +1
Response: After attached character attacks, deal 1 damage to the defending character.
![](/Images/Tactics-med.png)
![](/Images/Cards/Two-Player-Limited-Edition-Starter/Blade-of-Gondolin.jpg)
![Popularity 8/10 (Rank 488641)](/Images/gold-ring.png)
Attach to a hero. Restricted.
Attached hero gets +1 when attacking an Orc.
Response: After attached hero attacks and destroys an enemy, place 1 progress token on the current quest.
![](/Images/Lore-med.png)
![](/Images/Cards/Two-Player-Limited-Edition-Starter/Lembas.jpg)
![Popularity 8/10 (Rank 486871)](/Images/gold-ring.png)
Play only if you control a Noldor or Silvan hero.
Attach to a hero.
Action: Discard Lembas to ready attached hero and heal 3 damage from it.
![](/Images/Lore-med.png)
![](/Images/Cards/Two-Player-Limited-Edition-Starter/The-Long-Defeat.jpg)
![Popularity 5/10 (Rank 193302)](/Images/gold-ring.png)
Attach to a quest card in play. Limit 1 per quest.
Response: After attached quest is defeated, each player either draws 2 cards or heals up to 5 damage from among characters he controls.
"...through the ages of the world we have fought the long defeat."
–Galadriel, The Fellowship of the Ring
![](/Images/Leadership-med.png)
![](/Images/Cards/The-Hunt-for-Gollum/DĂșnedain-Mark.jpg)
![Popularity 9/10 (Rank 587205)](/Images/gold-ring.png)
Attach to a hero.
Attached hero gains +1
Action: Pay 1 resource from attached hero's pool to attach DĂșnedain Mark to another hero.
![](/Images/Cards/The-Hunt-for-Gollum/Song-of-Kings.jpg)
![Popularity 6/10 (Rank 306786)](/Images/gold-ring.png)
![](/Images/Leadership-med.png)
![](/Images/Cards/Conflict-at-the-Carrock/DĂșnedain-Warning.jpg)
![Popularity 10/10 (Rank 910046)](/Images/gold-ring.png)
Attach to a hero.
Attached hero gains +1
Action: Pay 1 resource from attached hero's pool to attach DĂșnedain Warning to another hero.
![](/Images/Tactics-med.png)
![](/Images/Cards/Conflict-at-the-Carrock/Born-Aloft.jpg)
![Popularity 2/10 (Rank 103530)](/Images/gold-ring.png)
Attach to an ally.
Action: Discard Born Aloft from play to return attached ally to its owner's hand.
"Very well," said Gandalf. "Take us where and as far as you will!" –The Hobbit