Attach to a Ranger character. Restricted.

Action: Exhaust Ranger Bow and attached character to deal 1 damage to an enemy in the staging area.

Two had great bows, almost of their own height, and great quivers of long green–feathered arrows.
–The Two Towers

Attach to a Noble hero.

Planning Action: Exhaust Palantir and attached hero to name a card type and look at the top 3 cards of the encounter deck. For each of those cards that matches the named type, draw a card. For each of those cards that does not match the named type, raise your threat by 2.

Attach to a hero. Reduce the cost to play Tome of Atanatar by 1 for each hero you control with a printed resource icon.

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

Play Poisoned Stakes into the staging area unattached.

If unattached, attach Poisoned Stakes to the next eligble enemy that enters the staging area.

At the end of each round, deal 2 damage to attached enemy.

Attach to a Gondor hero.

While attached hero has at least 1 resource in its resource pool, Gondor characters get +1

"...still the lords of Gondor have keener sight than lesser men..." –Denethor, The Return of the King

Attach to a Rohan character. Restricted.

Attached character gets +1 (+2 instead if attacking an enemy in the staging area).

Right through the press drove Théoden Thengel's son, and his spear was shivered as he threw down thier chieftan. –The Return of the King

Attach to a Gondor or Rohan hero.

Response: after attached hero commits to a quest, spend 1 resource from attached hero's resource pool to ready attached hero.

...fresh horses were always in readiness to bear his errand–riders to Rohan in the Noth... –The Return of the King

Attach to a hero.

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

Action: Discard Scroll of Isildur 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.

Attach to a or Rohan hero. Restricted.

Response: After attached hero participates in an attack that destroys an enemy, exhaust Rohan Warhorse to ready attached hero.

Their horses were of great stature, strong and clean–limbed... –The Two Towers

Attach to a hero.

While attached hero is ready, shadow cards dealt to enemies engaged with you are dealt face up. (Shadow card effects are still resolved when resolving enemy attacks.)

...one of them uncovered a small lamp that gave out a slender silver beam. –The Fellowship of the Ring

Attach to a hero.

Response: After you raise your threat from the Doomed keyword, exhaust Keys of Orthanc to add 1 resource to attached hero's resource pool.

"He has the Key of Orthanc" –Gandalf, The Two Towers

Attach to a or Rohan hero. Restricted.

Attached hero gets +1 (+2 instead if attached hero is Éomer).

Response: After attached hero attacks alone, exhaust Firefoot to choose a non-unique enemy engaged with you. Excess damage dealt by this attack is assigned to the chosen enemy.

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

Attach to a Noldor or Silvan character. Restricted.

Attached character gets +2 hit points and gains sentinel.

...they were tall and and clad in grey mail, and from their shoulders hung long white cloaks. –The Fellowship of the Ring

Attach to a Scout hero.

While attached character is committed to the quest, place 1 progress on the first location revealed by the encounter deck each round.

"I have had a hard life and a long: and the leagues that lie between here and Gondor are a small part in the count of my journeys." –Aragorn, The Fellowship of the Ring

Attach to a hero. Limit 1 per hero.

The first event card you play each round that matches attached hero's printed sphere gains secrecy 1.

Each cloak was fastened about the neck with a brooch like a green leaf veined with silver. –The Fellowship of the Ring

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

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.

"...it is more strengthing than any food made by Men, and it is more pleasant than cram, by all accounts. –Lórien Elf, 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

Attach to a Ranger hero.

Response: After attached hero commits to a quest, name enemy, location or treachery. If a card of the named type is revealed during this quest phase, exhaust Wingfoot to ready attached hero.

"Wingfoot I name you. This deed of the three friends should be sung in many a hall. Forty leagues and five you have measured ere the forth day is ended!"
–Éomer, The Two Towers

Attach to a non-objective unique ally in play.

The first player gains control of attached ally.

Damage from undefended attacks against you may be assigned to attached ally.

"...if by life or death I can save you, I will."
–Aragorn, The Fellowship of the Ring

Attach to a Noble hero.

Response: After attached hero gains any number of resources from a card effect, exhaust Heir of Mardil to ready attached hero.

"...in my turn I bore it, and so did each eldest son of our house, far back into the vanished years before the failing of the kings..."
–Denethor, The Return of the King

Attach to Galadriel.

Action: Exhaust Mirror of Galadriel to search the top 10 cards of your deck for a card and add it to your hand. Shuffle the rest back into your deck. Then, discard a random card from your hand.

"What you will see, if you leave the Mirror free to work, I cannot tell. For it shows things that were, things that are, things that yet may be."
–Galadriel, The Fellowship of the Ring

Attach to a Noldor or Silvan character.

Limit 1 per character.

Attached character gets +1 (+2 instead if the active location has the Forest trait).

It was hard to say what colour they were: grey with the hue of twilight under the trees they seemed to be; and yet if they were moved, or set in another light, they were green as shadowed leaves... –The Fellowship of the Ring

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

Attach to a hero with sentinel.

Response: After attached hero defends against an attack and takes no damage while defending that attack, exhaust The Day’s Rising to add 1 resource to the attached hero's resource pool.

Out of doubt, out of dark to the day's rising
I came singing in the sun, sword unsheathing.
–Éomer, The Return of the King

Attach to a Warrior hero.

Response: After you optionally engage an enemy, exhaust Captain of Gondor to give attached hero +1 and +1 until the end of the round.

"Boromir it was that drove the enemy at last back from this western shore..." –Beregond, The Return of the King

Attach to a Dúnedain hero.

Planning Action: Exhaust Heir of Valandil to reduce the cost of the next Dúnedain ally you play this phase by 1 for each enemy engaged with you.

"But my home, such as I have, is in the North. For here the heirs of Valandil have ever dwelt in long line unbroken from father unto son for many generations." –Aragorn, The Fellowship of the Ring

Attach to a Dúnedain or Healer character.

Action: Discard Athelas and exhaust attached character to heal all damage on a character. You may discard a Condition attachment from that character.

"...it is a healing plant that the Men of the West brought to Middle–earth. Athelas they named it..." –Aragorn, The Fellowship of the Ring

Attach to an enemy. Limit 1 per enemy.

Attached enemy gets -1 .

Response: When attached enemy is destroyed, reduce each player's threat by the attached enemy's printed .

"If simple folk are free from care and fear, simple they will be, and we must be secret to keep them so." –Aragorn, 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

Attach to a hero with Sentinel. Limit 1 per hero.

Response: Exhaust Raven-winged Helm to prevent 1 point of damage just dealt to attached character.

He had a small hauberk, its rings of forged of steel, maybe, yet black as jet; and a high-crowned helm with small raven-wings on either side, set with a silver star in the centre of the circlet.
–The Return of the King

Attach to a Hobbit hero. Restricted.

Quest Action: If attached hero is not committed to the quest, exhaust Hobbit Pony and attached hero to commit attached hero to the quest.

He was riding a pony, and a scarf was swathed round his neck and over his chin to keep out the fog. —The Fellowship of the Ring

Attach to a location. Limit 1 per location.

Response: After attached location is explored, the first player adds 1 resource to each of his heroes’ resource pools.

"Rangers have been here lately. It is they who left the firewood behind."
–Aragorn, The Fellowship of the Ring

Attach to a or Noldor hero. Restricted.

Response: After attached hero commits to a quest, discard a card from your hand to place 2 progress on the active location.

In the dusk its headstall flickered and flashed, as if it were studded with gems like living stars.
–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

Attach to a character.

Attached character gains the Noldor and Silvan traits.

"I name you Elf–friend; and may the stars shine upon the end of your road!"
–Gildor, The Fellowship of the Ring

Attach to a quest card in play. Limit 1 per quest.

Response: After attached quest card is defeated, each player either draws 2 cards or heals up to 5 damage from among characters he controls.

"...for ere the fall of Nargothrond or Gondolin I passed over the mountains, and together through ages of the world we have fought the long defeat."
–Galadriel, The Fellowship of the Ring

Attach to a player's threat dial. Limit 1 per player.

Forced: When you would be eliminated by reaching your threat elimination level, instead discard Favor of the Valar and reduce your threat to 5 less than your threat elimination level. You are not eliminated.

"...their hearts were lifted up in such a hope as they had not known since the darkness came out of the East..."
–The Return of the King

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

Attach to a Ranger character. Limit 1 per character.

While attached character is commited to the quest, Weather-stained Cloak gains:

Response: Exhaust Weather-stained Cloak to cancel 1 point of damage just dealt to attached character.

They were clad in warm raiment and heavy cloaks...
–The Return of the King

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

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).

Attach to a or a Scout character.

Response: At the beginning of the travel phase, exhaust Mariner’s Compass and attached character to search the top 5 cards of the encounter deck for a location. Switch that location with a location in the staging area. Shuffle the encounter deck.

Attach to a location in the staging area.

Progress from questing successfully may be placed on the attached location before it is placed on the current quest.

Attach to a Noldor character.

Action: Exhaust To the Sea, to the Sea! and discard X cards from your hand to reduce the cost of the next Noldor ally played this phase by X (to a minimum of 1).

To the Sea, to the Sea! The white gulls are crying,
The wind is blowing, and the white foam is flying.
–The Return of the King

Attach to Círdan the Shipwright or Gandalf.

Attached character gains a resource icon.

Action: Exhaust Narya and attached character to choose and ready up to 2 allies. Each of those allies gets +1 and +1 until the end of the phase.

"For this is the Ring of Fire, and with it you may rekindle hearts in a world that grows chill."
–Círdan, The Return of the King

Attach to a Gondor hero.

Action: Spend 2 resources from attached hero's resource pool to draw 1 card.

"The last Steward of Gondor begs leave to surrender his office." And he held out a white rod.
–The Return of the King

Attach to a character.

Attach character gains the Gondor trait.

But be it known that I have sworn him to my service...
–The Return of the King