North Realm Lookout gets +1 and does not exhaust to quest while it has an Item attachment.
There were people on the look–out on the banks.
–The Hobbit
Cannot have attachments.
Planning Action: Attach Wild Stallion to an ally you control. (Counts as a Mount attachment with the text: "Restricted. Limit 1 per ally. Attached ally gets +1 , +1 , +1 , and +1 hit point.")
Forest Road Traveler gets +1 , +1 , and +1 for each attachment on the active location.
Only on the Road would travellers be found...
–The Fellowship of the Ring
Action: Exhaust Long Lake Trader to move an Item attachment from a character you control to another eligible character.
"Nowhere are there any men so friendly to us as the Men of Dale."
–Glóin, The Fellowship of the Ring
Cannot have attachments.
Response: Discard Loyal Hound to cancel up to 2 damage just dealt to a hero you control.
Reduce the cost to play Mirkwood Hunter by 1 for each attachment on the active location.
...they were brave and well–armed and even the Wargs dared not attack them if there were many together...
–The Hobbit
Cannot have restricted attachments.
When Revealed: The first player chooses a player to take control of Eagle of the North. The chosen player may choose and discard a non-unique enemy in the staging area.
While Ent of Fangorn is in the staging area, it gains: "QuestAction: Exhaust a hero you control to discard the top card of the encounter deck. If that hero's is greater than the discarded card's place 1 resource here. Then, if there are 3 resources here, discard them to take control of Ent of Fangorn. Any player may trigger this effect."
"But the Lords of Minas Tirith still fight on, defying our enemies, keeping the passage of the River from Argonath to the Sea."
–Elrond, The Fellowship of the Ring
Response: After Son of Arnor enters play, choose an enemy card in the staging area or currently engaged with another player. Engage that enemy.
...and the North-realm they made in Arnor, and the South-realm in Gondor above the mouths of Anduin.
–The Fellowship of the Ring
Response: After Snowbourn Scout enters play, choose a location. Place 1 progress token on that location.
...he saw not a shadow, nor a blur, but the small figures of horsemen, many horsemen, and the glint of morning on the tips of their spears was like the twinkle of minute stars beyond the edge of mortal sight.
–The Two Towers
"We have been keeping watch on the rivers, ever since we saw a great troop of Orcs going north towards Moria, along the skirts of the mountains, many days ago."
–Haldir of Lórien, The Fellowship of the Ring
Response: After Longbeard Orc Slayer enters play, deal 1 damage to each Orc enemy in play.
Five dead Orcs lay there. They had been hewn with many cruel strokes, and two had been beheaded. The ground was wet with their dark blood.
–The Two Towers
"I am glad to have you standing nigh with your stout legs and your hard axe." –Legolas, The Two Towers
Response: After Gondorian Spearman is declared as a defender, deal 1 damage to the attacking enemy.
More than a thousand were there mustered. Their spears were like a springing wood. –The Two Towers
A few of the riders appeared to be bowmen, skilled at shooting from a running horse. –The Two Towers
Action: Reduce your threat by 3 to give control of Wandering Took to another player. Raise that player's threat by 3. (Limit once per round.)
...but certainly there was something not entirely hobbit-like about them, and once in a while members of the Took-clan would go and have adventures. –The Hobbit
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
Action: Exhaust Daughter of the Nimrodel to heal up to 2 damage on any 1 hero.
"Here is Nimrodel! Of this stream the Silvan Elves made many songs long ago, and still we sing them in the North...I will bathe my feet, for it is said that the water is healing to the weary." –Legolas, The Fellowship of the Ring
Response: After you play Erebor Hammersmith, return the topmost attachment in any player's discard pile to his hand.
"In Erebor in the Kingdom of Dain there is such skill..." –Aragorn, The Return of the King
Response: After Miner of the Iron Hills enters play, choose and discard 1 Condition attachment from play.
...while the four dwarves sat around the table, and talked about mines and gold and troubles with goblins...
–The Hobbit
"We have been keeping watch on the rivers, ever since we saw a great troop of Orcs going north towards Moria, along the skirts of the mountains, many days ago."
–Haldir, The Fellowship of the Ring
Response: After a Silvan ally you control leaves play, ready Defender of the Naith.
"You cannot cross the rivers again, and behind you there are now secret sentinels that you cannot pass."
–Haldir, The Fellowship of the Ring
Response: After you play Andrath Guardsman from your hand, choose a non-unique enemy engaged with you. That enemy cannot attack you this round.
They forgot or ignored what little they had ever known of the Guardians...
–The Fellowship of the Ring
Response: After Woodland Courier enters play, place 1 progress on a location (2 progress instead if that location has the Forest trait.
Response: After Naith Guide enters play, choose a hero. That hero does not exhaust to quest this round.
"I shall lead you well..."
–Haldir, The Fellowship of the Ring
Action: Choose another player. That player gains control of Blue Mountain Trader. Then, the player moves 1 resource from the resource pool of a hero he controls to the resource pool of a hero you control, or Blue Mountain Trader is discarded. (Limit once per round.)
Response: After Sarn Ford Sentry enters play, draw 1 card for each enemy engaged with you.
"Lonely men are we, Rangers of the wild, hunters but hunters ever of the servants of the Enemy..."
–Aragorn, The Fellowship of the Ring
Response: After you play Erebor Hammersmith, return the topmost attachment in any player's discard pile to his hand.
"In Erebor in the Kingdom of Dain there is such skill..."
–Aragorn, The Return of the King
Response: After Galadhon Archer enters play, deal 1 damage to an enemy not engaged with you.
"...you breathe so loud that they could shoot you in the dark."
–Legolas, The Fellowship of the Ring
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
"And the Enemy must pay dearly for the crossing of the River."
–Denethor, The Return of the King
Response: Discard Dúnedain Lookout to cancel the 'when revealed' effects of an enemy just revealed from the encounter deck.
"Travellers scowl at us and countrymen give us scornful names."
–Aragorn, The Fellowship of the Ring
Response: After Envoy of Pelargir enters play, add 1 resource to a Gondor or Noble hero's resource pool.
Action: Discard Westfold Horse-Breaker to choose and ready a hero.
"Your own valour has done more, and the stout legs of the Westfold–men marching through the night." –Gandalf, The Two Towers
Response: After you play Rivendell Minstrel from your hand, search your deck for 1 Song card and add it to your hand. Shuffle your deck.
As Elrond entered and went towards the seat prepared for him, Elvish minstrels began to make sweet music. –The Fellowship of the Ring
Action: Discard Beorning Beekeeper from play to deal 1 damage to each enemy in the staging area.
"We are getting near," said Gandalf. "We are on th eedge of his bee pastures." – The Hobbit
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 Keen-eyed Took enters play, reveal the top card of each player's deck.
Action: Return Keen-eyed Took to your hand to discard the top card of each player's deck.
Then something Tookish woke up inside him...
–The Hobbit
Descendant of Thorondor cannot have restricted attachments.
Response: After Descendant of Thorondor enters or leaves play, deal 2 damage to any 1 enemy in the staging area.
Action: Exhaust and discard The Riddermark’s Finest to place 2 progress tokens on any location.
"And there are no horses like the ones that are bred in that great vale between the Misty Mountains and the White."
–Gandalf, The Fellowship of the Ring
Response: Discard Dúnedain Watcher from play to cancel the shadow effects of a card just triggered.
"If simple folk are free from care and fear, simple they will be, and we must be secret to keep them so. That has been the task of my kindred, while the years have lengthened and the grass has grown." –Strider, The Fellowship of the Ring
Ranged.Vassal of the Windlord cannot have restricted attachments.
Forced: After an attack in which Vassal of the Windlord attacked resolves, discard Vassal of the Windlord from play.
Response: After a Silvan character readies during the refresh phase, heal 1 damage from that character.
"The Wood–elves tracked him first, an easy task for them, for his trail was still fresh then." –Gandalf, The Fellowship of the Rings
Eagles of the Misty Mountains cannot have restricted attachments. Eagles of the Misty Mountains gets +1 and +1 for each facedown attachment it has.
Response: After another Eagle character leaves play, you may attach that card facedown to Eagles of the Misty Mountains.
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