Action: Exhaust a Ranger or Scout character to discard a non-unique active location. Then, search the encounter deck and discard pile for a non-unique location and make it the active location. Shuffle the encounter deck.

"I have crossed many mountains and many rivers, and trodden many plains, even into the far countries of Rhûn and Harad where the stars are strange..."
–Aragorn, 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 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.

Action: Place 2 progress on any location. Resolve that effect again for each copy of The Evening Star currently in your discard pile (you may choose new targets).

...for ever still a herald on
an errand that should never rest
to bear his shining lamp afar,
the Flammifer of Westernesse.
–The Fellowship of the Ring

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.

Response: After Mirkwood Explorer quests successfully, place 1 progress on it.

Action: Exhaust Mirkwood Explorer to move all progress from it to a location in play.

Attach to a location.

Action: Exhaust a Ranger or Scout character to give attached location -2 until the end of the phase.

"In this high play you may see the two powers that are opposed to one another; and ever they strive now in thought..."
–The Fellowship of the Ring

Response: After Rhovanion Outrider commits to the quest, place 1 progress on a location in the staging area. If that location is not explored by this effect, give Rhovanion Outrider +1 until the end of the phase.

Response: After Woodland Courier enters play, place 1 progress on a location (2 progress instead if that location has the Forest trait).

Attach to a location. Limit 1 per location

Response: After a player plays a Silvan ally from his hand, place 1 progress on attached location.

He made his end of the rope fast about another tree, and then ran lightly along it, over the river and back again, as if he were on a round.
–The Fellowship of the Ring

Response: After you travel to a location, spend 1 resource to raise the engagement cost of each enemy in play by X until the end of the round, where X is that location's quest points. Any player may trigger this response.

"Gave me a chance of walking round the country and seeing folk, and hearing the news, and knowing where the good beer was."
–The Return of the King

Action: Spend 1 resource to exhaust Súlien. Then, each location in the staging area gets -1 until the end of the phase. Any player may trigger this action.

Forced: After this ally enters play, search the top 5 cards of the encounter deck for a non-unique location and add it to the staging area. If no location enters play by this effect, discard Dúnedain Pathfinder. Shuffle the encounter deck.

Play only if the main quest has no keywords.

Action: Remove X progress from the main quest to place X progress on a location in the staging area.

"Well," said Boromir, "when heads are at a loss bodies must serve..."
–The Fellowship of the Ring

Response: When the active location leaves play as an explored location, discard Eryn Galen Settler to discard a location in the staging with the same title as the just explored location.

Play only if you control a unique character with the Noldor trait and another unique character with the Dúnedain trait.

Action: Choose a non-unique location in the staging area and increase your threat by X to discard it. X is the chosen location's printed quest points.

Response: After Beorning Guardian participates in an attack that destroys an enemy, discard Beorning Guardian to place X progress on a location, where X is the destroyed enemy's printed

"...if it were not for the Beornings, the passage from Dale to Rivendell would long ago have become impossible."
–Glóin, The Fellowship of the Ring

Attach to a Dale or Scout character. Limit 1 per character.

Response: After attached character commits to the quest, place 1 progress on the active location.

"You are come to the very edge of the Wild..."
–Gandalf, The Hobbit

Guarded (enemy or location).

Attach to a hero.

Attached hero gets +2 and collects an additional resource during the resource phase.

...the necklace of Girion, Lord of Dale, made of five hundred emeralds green as grass, which he gave for the arming of his eldest son...–The Hobbit

Attach to a location. Limit 1 per location.

Response: When attached location leaves play as an explored location, the first player reduces his threat by 3.

Response: At the beginning of the quest phase, search the top 5 cards of the encounter deck for a location and make it the active location, returning any previous active location to the staging area. Then, reveal 1 less encounter card this phase (to a minimum of 0). Shuffle the encounter deck.

Guarded (enemy or location).

Attach to a hero.

Each unique character you control gains +1 .

Action: Reduce your threat by 2 to attach The Arkenstone to a hero controlled by another player and raise that player's threat by 2. (Limit once per round.)

While the active location has an attachment on it, Haldan does not exhaust to quest.

Response: When the active location is explored, draw 1 card for each attachment on it.

Attach to a location with no progress tokens on it.

While attached location is the active location, reduce its quest point value to 1.

It was a path made by strong arms and heavy feet.
–The Fellowship of the Ring

Cannot have restricted attachments.

Response: After Meneldor enters or leaves play, place 2 progress on a location.

...Meneldor young and swift. –The Return of the King

Travel Action: Choose a location in the staging area with a player card attachment and make it the active location, returning any previous active location to the staging area. Reduce each player's threat by X, where X is the number of attachments on the active location.

South away! and South away!
Seek the sunlight and the day.
–The Hobbit

Guarded (enemy or location).

Attach to a hero. Restricted.

Attached hero gets +2 .

Response: After attach hero destroys an enemy, add 1 resource to attached hero's pool.

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

Ranged.

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

Action: Each location with an attachment gets -2 until the end of the phase.

Guarded (enemy or location).

Attach to a Dwarf hero.

Action: Exhaust Ring of Thrór and discard the top card of your deck to ready attached hero. If the discarded card is an attachment, put it into play.

Guarded (location).

Attach to a hero.

Response: When attached hero is dealt any amount of damage, reduce that damage by 1.

It was of silver-steel which the Elves call mithril, and with it went a belt of pearls and crystals. –The Hobbit

Attach to the active location. Limit 1 per location.

Attached location gets +2 quest points.

Response: After attached location is explored, discard cards from the encounter deck until a location is discarded. Add that location to the staging area to choose an non-unique enemy in the staging area and shuffle it into the encounter deck.

Cannot have attachments.

Setup: Shuffle 2 copies of Stinker into the encounter deck.

Response: After you travel to a location, raise your threat by 1 to draw 1 card.

Response: After you play Woodland Sentry from your hand, choose an enemy or location in play. If there is a copy of that card in the victory display, discard the chosen card.

In the Wide World the Wood–elves lingered in the twilight of our Sun and Moon but loved best the stars...
–The Hobbit

Guarded (location). Restricted.

Attach to a hero. Attached hero gets +2

You draw 1 additional card during the resource phase.

Looking up he saw before him a tall white tower, standing alone on a high ridge. A great desire came over him to climb the tower and see the Sea.
–The Fellowship of the Ring

Response: After you attack and destroy an enemy, shuffle the encounter discard pile into the encounter deck and discard cards from the top until an enemy is discarded. Add that enemy to the staging area to discard a non-unique location with equal to or less that that enemy's

Sentinel.

Action: Exhaust Aragorn to choose a location in the staging area. Until the end of the phase, that location gets -X where X is Aragorn's If this effect reduces the location's to 0, place 1 progress on it. (Limit once per round.)

Response: After Haleth quests successfully, search the top 5 cards of your deck for an attachment and add it to your hand. Shuffle your deck.

Action: Ready up to X Woodman characters you control, where X is the number of locations with player card attachments.

The Woodman said that there was some new terror abroad...
–The Fellowship of the Ring

Sentinel.

Action: Exhaust Aragorn to choose a location in the staging area. Until the end of the phase, that location gets -X where X is Aragorn's If this effect reduces the location's to 0, place 1 progress on it. (Limit once per round.)

Attach to a hero.

Travel Action: Discard Thrór’s Map to choose a location in the staging area. Make that location the active location. (If there is another active location, return it to the staging area.)

"This was made by Thror, your grandfather, Thorin." he said in answer to the dwarves' excited questions. "It is a plan of the Mountain." –Gandalf, The Hobbit

Attach to a hero.

Response: After a location is added to the staging area, attach Thrór’s Key to that location. While attached to a location, Thrór’s Key gains:

Treat attached location's printed text box as blank, except for traits.

"The key that went with the map! Try it now while there is still time!" –Bilbo, The Hobbit

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.

"It is a beryl, an elf–stone. Whether it was set there, or let fall by chance, I cannot say, but it brings hope to me"
–Aragorn, The Fellowship of the Ring

Setup: Attach to a hero in play.

Action: Add Lórien Rope to the victory display, and remove it from the campaign pool to give each location in the staging area -2 until the end of the phase.

"What a piece of luck you had that rope!" –Frodo, The Two Towers

Attach to a hero or Legolas.

Response: After attached character participates in an attack that destroys an enemy, exhaust Arod to place 1 progress token on any location.

"A smaller and lighter horse, but restive and fiery, was brought to Legolas. Arod was his name." –The Two Towers

X is the of the active location.

Travel Action: Discard Ghân-buri-Ghân to travel to a location without resolving its Travel effect.

Ghân-buri-Ghân will not lead you into trap.
—The Return of the King