*Helm Hammerhand, Hero of the Hornburg
Companion * Man
Strength: 9
Vitality: 4
Resistance: 6
Captain.
To play, spot two men.
Skirmish: If the fellowship is at a battleground site, exert Helm Hammerhand to exert a minion he is skirmishing.
Regroup: Exert Helm Hammerhand and another man to liberate a site.
Helm struck out at Freca with his bare fist, and killed him with that single blow...
R

*Eowyn, Bearer of Sorrows
Companion * Man
Strength: 6
Vitality: 3
Resistance: 5
Eowyn is resistance +1 for each of the following you can spot: Theoden, Eomer, Theodred.
While Eowyn is the Ring-bearer, at the start of each skirmish involving her, heal 3 minions or add 2 burdens.
Skirmish: If Eowyn bears the One Ring or is at a plains site, exert her and add a burden to make her strength +2 and gain captain.
"This weapon must be wielded for this war to be won. I will take this burden from you, little hobbit."
R

*Guthwine, Battle-Friend
Possession * Hand Weapon
Strength +2
Bearer must be Eomer. He is damage +1.
Skirmish: Discard a card from hand and add to exert a minion skirmishing Eomer.
R

*Eomer, King of the Riddermark
Companion * Man
Strength: 7
Vitality: 3
Resistance: 6
Captain.
While you can spot a man, Eomer is twilight cost -1.
Regroup: If you have initiative, exert Eomer and discard 3 cards from hand to heal each other man.
R

Ride to Battle
Event * Maneuver
Add for each man you can spot to make each companion strength +1 or damage +1 until the regroup phase.
"’I am here. The last host of the Eorlingas has ridden forth. It will not return without battle.’"

Strength Born of Age
Condition
Plays on a site. Limit 1 per site. You may play this condition any time you could play a maneuver event.
Each captain at this site is strength +1 and resistance +1.
’Men of that land called it Helm’s Deep, after a hero of old wars who had made his refuge there.’
C

*Great Towers of Stone
Condition * Support Area
Fortification.
Each unique man at a battleground gains captain.
There upon its spur stood high walls of ancient stone, and within them was a lofty tower. Men said that in the far-off days of the glory of Gondor the sea-kings had built here this fastness with the hands of giants.
C

*Erkenbrand, Valorous Leader
Companion * Man
Strength: 7
Vitality: 3
Resistance: 6
Captain.
While at a battleground, Erkenbrand gains hunter 1 and damage +1.
Regroup: Exert Erkenbrand and add to return a possession from your discard pile to hand.
"’He was a mighty man. In him lived again the valour of Helm the Hammerhand.’"
U

*Boromir, Son of Gondor
Companion * Man
Strength: 6
Vitality: 3
Resistance: 6
Aggressive. Hunter 1.
Boromir is strength +1 for each unbound companion assigned to skirmish.
Regroup: Exert Boromir twice to remove 3 threats.
"Our people, our people! I would have followed you to the end... my brother... my captain... my king!"

*Blade of Gondor, Steward’s Heirloom
Possession * Hand Weapon
Strength: +1
Resistance: +1
Bearer must be Boromir. He is strength +1 for each threat you can spot (limit +3).
Skirmish: If you have initiative, discard 3 cards from hand to wound a minion skirmishing Boromir.

*Elendil, Commander of the Last Host
Companion * Man
Strength: 8
Vitality: 5
Resistance: 6
Knight.
Elendil is strength +1 for each threat you can spot (limit +3).
Skirmish: Exert Elendil to make another companion with resistance 4 or more strength +2 (limit +4).

*Isildur, Desperate Lord
Companion * Man
Strength: 7
Vitality: 3
Resistance: 1
Knight.
If Isildur has resistance 0, place him in the dead pile. Isildur is resistance +1 for each threat you can spot.
Regroup: Exert Isildur twice and remove a threat to remove 2 burdens.

*Gandalf, Caller of Eagles
Companion * Wizard
Strength: 7
Vitality: 4
Resistance: 7
While you can spot 3 Eagles, Gandalf is resistance +2.
Fellowship: Exert Gandalf twice to play an Eagle from your draw deck.
"As if to his eyes some sudden vision had been given, Gandalf stirred; and he turned, looking back north where the skies were pale and clear. Then he lifted up his hands and cried in a loud voice ringing above the din: ’The Eagles are coming!’"

*Gandalf, Borne By Wind
Companion * Wizard
Strength: 7
Vitality: 4
Resistance: 7
While you can spot 4 Eagles, the move limit is +1.
Skirmish: Exert Gandalf to make an Eagle strength +1 (and damage +1 if that Eagle is skirmishing an or minion).
"’Twice you have borne me, Gwaihir my friend,’ said Gandalf. ’Thrice shall pay for all, if you are willing. You will not find me a burden much greater than when you bore me from Zirak-zigil, where my old life burned away.’"

*The Eagles are Coming!
Condition * Support Area
Toil 1.
To play, spot Gandalf.
Each time you play an Eagle, you may remove a burden.
Skirmish: Exert an Eagle (or add a threat) to make a companion strength +1 and damage +1 (limit once per skirmish).
"And many voices answered crying: ’The Eagles are coming! The Eagles are coming!’ The hosts of Mordor looked up and wondered what this sign might mean."

*Gwaihir, Greatest of Eagles
Companion * Eagle
Strength: 12
Vitality: 4
Signet: Gandalf
Gwaihir is twilight cost -1 for each Eagle you can spot.
Each time Gwaihir wins a skirmish, you may add a threat to exert each minion.
Regroup: Exert Gwaihir twice to discard a minion.
’...and down to him came the great eagle, Gwaihir the Windlord, and stood before him.’

*Landroval, Brother of Gwaihir
Companion * Eagle
Strength: 10
Vitality: 3
Signet: Gandalf
When you play Landroval, you may heal each companion with the Gandalf signet.
You may add a threat to play Landroval during the regroup phase.
Skirmish: Exert Landroval to spot a companion. If that companion wins this skirmish, remove 2 threats.
’There came Gwaihir the Windlord, and Landroval his brother, greatest of all the Eagles of the North, mightiest of the descendants of old Thorondor...’

Northern Vassals
Companion * Eagle
Strength: 9
Vitality: 3
Signet: Gandalf
While skirmishing an Orc, this companion is strength +2.
While you can spot 3 threats, this companion is damage +1.
’Behind them in long swift lines came all their vassals from the northern mountains, speeding on a gathering wind.’

*Eyries in the North
Condition * Support Area
To play, spot 2 Eagles or add a threat.
Each Eagle is damage +1 (and strength +1 if at a mountain site).
’...who built his eyries in the inaccessible peaks of the Encircling Mountains when Middle-earth was young.’

*Meneldor, Young and Swift
Companion * Eagle
Strength: 7
Vitality: 3
Signet: Gandalf
Hunter 2.
While you can spot 3 other Eagles (or another unique Eagle), Meneldor is strength +2.
Maneuver: Exert Meneldor and add a threat to exert a minion (or wound an orc).
’And he lifted up Gandalf and sped away south, and with him went Landroval, and Meneldor young and swift.’

*Gandalf & Gwaihir, Saviors of Middle-Earth
Companions * Wizard / Eagle
Strength: 18
Vitality: 4
Resistance: 7 (Signet: Gandalf)
Gandalf & Gwaihir are twilight cost -2 for each Eagle and Ring-bound hobbit you can spot.
Each time Gandalf & Gwaihir win a skirmish, you may remove a threat.
Skirmish: Exert Gandalf & Gwaihir to make a or another companion strength +2.

Gale of Wings
Event * Skirmish
Make a companion strength +2 (or +3 and damage +1 if you can spot an Eagle or that companion is skirmishing a minion).
Straight down upon the Nazgûl they bore, stooping suddenly out of the high airs, and the rush of their wide wings as they passed over was like a gale.

Would Bear the Weight of Stone
Event * Skirmish
Exert an Eagle not assigned to skirmish and add a threat to add his strength to the strength of a wizard companion that is skirmishing.
’I would bear you,’ answered Gwaihir, ’whither you will, even were you made of stone.’

Greater than the Wind
Event * Fellowship or Regroup
Spot an eagle, add a burden, and add 2 threats to play the fellowship’s next site. The move limit for this turn is +1.
’For we have need of speed greater than any wind, outmatching the wings of the Nazgûl.’

Outfly the Wind
Event * Maneuver
Add a threat and spot an Eagle to suspend the current phase. Begin a skirmish involving that Eagle and a minion. When it ends, resume the suspended phase.
’The North Wind blows, but we shall outfly it.’

The Ruin of the Clouds
Condition * Support Area
To play, spot Gandalf or two Eagles.
Each time a companion (except a man) wins a skirmish, you may exert that companion to remove a threat.
His eyes still strayed north, north into the eye of the wind, to where the sky far off was clear, as the cold blast, rising to a gale, drove back the darkness and the ruin of the clouds.

Down the Wild Wind
Event * Skirmish
Exert an Eagle that is not assigned to skirmish to have him replace a companion in a skirmish. If that companion had more resistance than that Eagle, add a threat.
And so it was that Gwaihir saw them with his keen far-seeing eyes, as down the wild wind he came, and daring the great peril of the skies he circled in the air.

Uproar and Mischief
Event * Maneuver
Spot an Eagle and add a threat to exert a minion. Then, if the fellowship is at a forest site, exert another minion. If you can spot more minions than companions, wound those minions instead.
"What’s all this uproar in the forest tonight?" said the Lord of the Eagles. He was sitting, black in the moonlight, on the top of a lonely pinnacle of rock at the eastern edge of the mountains. "I hear wolves’ voices! Are the goblins at mischief in the woods?"

Noble Eagle
Companion * Eagle
Strength: 7
Vitality: 3
Resistance: 7
While you can spot 3 threats, this companion is strength +2.
Skirmish: If this companion is not assigned to skirmish, you may exert him to have him replace an unbound or companion in a skirmish.
But the ancient race of the northern mountains were the greatest of all birds; they were proud and strong and noble-hearted.

Down, Down, Down
Event * Fellowship
Spot a companion and add a threat to play a companion from your draw deck. If that companion was an Eagle, make each other companion strength +1 until the regroup phase.
Tonight the Lord of the Eagles was filled with curiosity to know what was afoot; so he summoned many other eagles to him, and they flew away from the mountains, and slowly circling ever round and round they came down, down, down towards the ring of the wolves and the meeting-place of the goblins.

Saved By the Sky
Event * Response
If a companion is about to be placed in the dead pile, spot an Eagle to prevent that and return that companion to your hand. Then, remove all your threats and place that many wounds on companions.
Just at that moment the Lord of the Eagles swept down from above, seized him in his talons, and was gone.

Wrath of Wings and Talons
Event * Skirmish
Make an Eagle strength +2 (or add a threat to make an Eagle gain Hunter 3 and damage +1).
Over them swooped the eagles; the dark rush of their beating wings smote them to the floor or drove them far away; their talons tore at goblin faces.

Not Forks
Event * Regroup
Spot an Eagle and a or companion to draw 3 cards. Then, discard 2 cards.
"No you don’t!" be heard Dori answering, "because the bacon knows that it will get back in the pan sooner or later; and it is to be hoped we shan’t. Also eagles aren’t forks!"

*Host of Eagles
Companion * Eagle
Strength: 11
Vitality: 3
Resistance: 7
This companion is twilight cost -1 for each other companion you can spot.
While skirmishing an Orc, this companion gains hunter 1.
While skirmishing a Warg, this companion gains hunter 1.
Regroup: Discard this companion to remove 3 threats.
The eagles were coming down the wind, line after line, in such a host as must have gathered from all the eyries of the North.

*Long Suspicions
Condition * Support Area
While you can spot an minion, each Eagle gains hunter 1.
Skirmish: Discard this condition to draw 2 cards.
The Eagles had long had suspicion of the goblins’ mustering...

*Gwaihir, Battle-Lord
Companion * Eagle
Strength: 12
Vitality: 4
Resistance: 8
Damage +1. Hunter 1.
While you can spot a wizard, Gwaihir is twilight cost -1.
When you play Gwaihir, you may remove 2 threats.
Skirmish: Return Gwaihir to hand to play another Eagle from hand. Then, you may have that eagle replace an unbound or companion in a skirmish.
So they too had gathered in great numbers, under the great Eagle of the Misty Mountains...

*The Nick of Time
Condition * Support Area
While you can spot an Eagle, each unbound companion is resistance +1.
Skirmish: Play an Eagle from hand to have it replace an unbound companion in a skirmish and remove a threat. Discard this condition.
...and at length smelling battle from afar they had come speeding down the gale in the nick of time.

Drove them Down
Event * Skirmish
Exert a minion skirmishing an Eagle. If that minion was an Orc or minion, make that Eagle hunter 2 as well.
They it was who dislodged the goblins from the mountain-slopes, casting them over precipices, or driving them down shrieking and bewildered among their foes.

Depart With First Light
Condition * Support Area
Epic. (This condition cannot be discarded).
To play, exert an Eagle and add 2 threats.
The move limit is +1.
At the start of the fellowship phase, discard each Eagle you can spot. Then, this condition loses it’s gametext.
"Where are the Eagles?" he asked Gandalf that evening, as he lay wrapped in many warm blankets. "Some are in the hunt," said the wizard, "but most have gone back to their eyries. They would not stay here, and departed with the first light of morning.

*An Eagle’s Crown of Gold
Condition * Support Area
Epic. (This condition cannot be discarded).
While you can spot an Eagle and a Dwarf, each companion is resistance +1.
Each companion with resistance 7 or more is strength +1.
Skirmish: If an Eagle is about to take a wound, add and exert a Dwarf to prevent that.
Skirmish: If a Dwarf is about to take a wound, add and exert an Eagle to prevent that.
"Dain has crowned their chief with gold, and sworn friendship with them for ever."

Aaaaand.... a few new ones to add.

*Host of Eagles
Companion * Eagle
Strength: 11
Vitality: 3
Resistance: 7
This companion is twilight cost -1 for each other companion you can spot.
While skirmishing an Orc, this companion gains hunter 1.
While skirmishing a Warg, this companion gains hunter 1.
Regroup: Discard this companion to remove 3 threats.
The eagles were coming down the wind, line after line, in such a host as must have gathered from all the eyries of the North.
cut cost by 2

*Long Suspicions
Condition * Support Area
While you can spot an minion, each Eagle gains hunter 1.
Skirmish: Discard this condition to draw 2 cards.
The Eagles had long had suspicion of the goblins’ mustering...
nice

*Gwaihir, Battle-Lord
Companion * Eagle
Strength: 12
Vitality: 4
Resistance: 8
Damage +1. Hunter 1.
While you can spot a wizard, Gwaihir is twilight cost -1.
When you play Gwaihir, you may remove 2 threats.
Skirmish: Return Gwaihir to hand to play another Eagle from hand. Then, you may have that eagle replace an unbound or companion in a skirmish.
So they too had gathered in great numbers, under the great Eagle of the Misty Mountains...
sweet

*The Nick of Time
Condition * Support Area
While you can spot an Eagle, each unbound companion is resistance +1.
Skirmish: Play an Eagle from hand to have it replace an unbound companion in a skirmish and remove a threat. Discard this condition.
...and at length smelling battle from afar they had come speeding down the gale in the nick of time.
nice

Drove them Down
Event * Skirmish
Exert a minion skirmishing an Eagle. If that minion was an Orc or minion, make that Eagle hunter 2 as well.
They it was who dislodged the goblins from the mountain-slopes, casting them over precipices, or driving them down shrieking and bewildered among their foes.
again nice. But make it cost 2.

Depart With First Light
Condition * Support Area
Epic. (This condition cannot be discarded).
To play, exert an Eagle and add 2 threats.
The move limit is +1.
At the start of the fellowship phase, discard each Eagle you can spot. Then, this condition loses it’s gametext.
"Where are the Eagles?" he asked Gandalf that evening, as he lay wrapped in many warm blankets. "Some are in the hunt," said the wizard, "but most have gone back to their eyries. They would not stay here, and departed with the first light of morning.
sweet

*An Eagle’s Crown of Gold
Condition * Support Area
Epic. (This condition cannot be discarded).
While you can spot an Eagle and a Dwarf, each companion is resistance +1.
Each companion with resistance 7 or more is strength +1.
Skirmish: If an Eagle is about to take a wound, add and exert a Dwarf to prevent that.
Skirmish: If a Dwarf is about to take a wound, add and exert an Eagle to prevent that.
"Dain has crowned their chief with gold, and sworn friendship with them for ever."

So.. since Rise of the Ring is pre-war of the ring stuff, expect to see a ton of The Hobbit stuff... including two new cultures, and !

Yeah, this set is going to take FOREVER.

*Host of Eagles
Companion * Eagle
Strength: 11
Vitality: 3
Resistance: 7
This companion is twilight cost -1 for each other companion you can spot (except men).
While skirmishing an Orc, this companion gains hunter 1.
While skirmishing a Warg, this companion gains hunter 1.
Regroup: Discard this companion to remove 3 threats.
The eagles were coming down the wind, line after line, in such a host as must have gathered from all the eyries of the North.

Long Suspicions
Condition * Support Area
While you can spot an minion, each Eagle gains hunter 1.
Skirmish: Discard this condition and spot an Eagle to draw 2 cards.
The Eagles had long had suspicion of the goblins’ mustering...

*Gwaihir, Battle-Lord
Companion * Eagle
Strength: 12
Vitality: 4
Resistance: 8
Damage +1. Hunter 1.
When you play Gwaihir, you may remove 2 threats.
Skirmish: Return Gwaihir to hand to play another Eagle from hand. Then, you may have that eagle replace an unbound or companion in a skirmish.
So they too had gathered in great numbers, under the great Eagle of the Misty Mountains...

*The Nick of Time
Condition * Support Area
While you can spot an Eagle, each unbound companion is resistance +1.
Skirmish: Play an Eagle from hand to have it replace an unbound companion in a skirmish and remove a threat. Discard this condition.
...and at length smelling battle from afar they had come speeding down the gale in the nick of time.

Drove them Down
Event * Skirmish
Exert a minion skirmishing an Eagle. If that minion was an Orc or minion, make that Eagle hunter 2.
They it was who dislodged the goblins from the mountain-slopes, casting them over precipices, or driving them down shrieking and bewildered among their foes.

Depart With First Light
Condition * Support Area
Epic. (This condition cannot be discarded).
To play, exert an Eagle and add 2 threats.
The move limit is +1.
At the start of the fellowship phase, discard each Eagle you can spot. Then, this condition loses it’s gametext.
"Where are the Eagles?" he asked Gandalf that evening, as he lay wrapped in many warm blankets. "Some are in the hunt," said the wizard, "but most have gone back to their eyries. They would not stay here, and departed with the first light of morning.

*Crown of Gold
Artifact * Support Area
While you can spot an Eagle and a Dwarf, each companion is resistance +1.
While you can spot an Eagle, each companion with resistance 7 or more is strength +1.
Skirmish: If an Eagle is about to take a wound, add and exert a Dwarf to prevent that.
Skirmish: If a Dwarf is about to take a wound, add and exert an Eagle to prevent that.
"Dain has crowned their chief with gold, and sworn friendship with them for ever."

Greater than the Wind
Event * Fellowship or Regroup
Add a burden and 2 threats to play the fellowship’s next site. The move limit for this turn is +1.
’For we have need of speed greater than any wind, outmatching the wings of the Nazgûl.’

*Host of Eagles
Companion * Eagle
Strength: 11
Vitality: 3
Resistance: 7
This companion is twilight cost -1 for each other companion you can spot (except Men).
While skirmishing an Orc, this companion gains hunter 1.
While skirmishing a Warg, this companion gains hunter 1.
Regroup: Discard this companion to remove 3 threats.
The eagles were coming down the wind, line after line, in such a host as must have gathered from all the eyries of the North.

Long Suspicions
Condition * Support Area
While you can spot an minion, each Eagle gains hunter 1.
Skirmish: Discard this condition and spot an Eagle to draw 2 cards.
The Eagles had long had suspicion of the goblins’ mustering...

*Gwaihir, Battle-Lord
Companion * Eagle
Strength: 12
Vitality: 4
Resistance: 8
Damage +1. Hunter 1.
When you play Gwaihir, you may remove 2 threats.
Skirmish: Return Gwaihir to hand to play another Eagle from hand. Then, you may have that eagle replace an unbound or companion in a skirmish.
So they too had gathered in great numbers, under the great Eagle of the Misty Mountains...

*The Nick of Time
Condition * Support Area
While you can spot an Eagle, each unbound companion is resistance +1.
Skirmish: Play an Eagle from hand to have it replace an unbound companion in a skirmish and remove a threat. Discard this condition.
...and at length smelling battle from afar they had come speeding down the gale in the nick of time.

Drove them Down
Event * Skirmish
Exert a minion skirmishing an Eagle. If that minion was an Orc or minion, make that Eagle hunter 2.
They it was who dislodged the goblins from the mountain-slopes, casting them over precipices, or driving them down shrieking and bewildered among their foes.

Depart With First Light
Condition * Support Area
Epic. (This condition cannot be discarded).
To play, exert an Eagle and add 2 threats.
The move limit is +1.
At the start of the fellowship phase, discard each Eagle you can spot. Then, this condition loses it’s gametext.
"Where are the Eagles?" he asked Gandalf that evening, as he lay wrapped in many warm blankets. "Some are in the hunt," said the wizard, "but most have gone back to their eyries. They would not stay here, and departed with the first light of morning.

*Iluvatar, The One
Follower
Strength: +2
Resistance: +2
Aid -
Bearer must be a companion.
Shadow cards may not spot or discard your Followers.
Skirmish: Add a threat to heal bearer.
Then Ilúvatar arose, and the Ainur perceived that he smiled; and he lifted up his left hand, and a new theme began amid the storm...

Well, it’s a bit underpowered, given that its a DC of God....
other than that, looks decent, I guess.

*Namo, Doomsman
Companion * Ainur
Strength: 9
Vitality: 3
Resistance: 8
Spirit. (To assign this character to skirmish, exert it or add a burden).
While in your starting fellowship, this companion is twilight cost -2.
Skirmish: If Namo is skirmishing, exert him to take a skirmish event from your discard pile into hand.
He is the keeper of the Houses of the Dead, and the summoner of the spirits of the slain.



*Nienna, Lady of Wisdom
Companion * Ainur
Strength: 8
Vitality: 3
Resistance: 8
Spirit.
To play, spot a companion.
At the start of each fellowship phase, you may exert Nienna to heal another companion.
Fellowship: Add a threat to draw a card for each follower in your discard pile.
All those who wait in Mandos cry to her, for she brings strength to the spirit and turns sorrow to wisdom.
You might want to make it two threats to draw the cards; it sounds like it won’t be too hard to get lots of followers in your discard pile, so what you have at the moment will probably end up being "add a threat to draw four cards." Undercosted.