•Smeagol, Two-faced Sneak
Companion
Strength: 3
Vitality: 4
Resistance: 5
Ring-bound. To play, add a burden.
Each time Smeagol wins a skirmish, you may add a burden and discard Smeagol to take a Shadow card into hand from your discard pile.

Bound to the Quest
Condition • Support Area
At the start of each fellowship phase, you may spot Frodo and Sam to play Smeagol from your discard pile.

Secret Stair
Event • Fellowship
Exert Smeagol and spot Frodo and Sam to play the fellowship’s next site. Until the regroup phase, each minion played at that site must exert.

•We Must Go at Once
Condition • Support Area
Fellowship: Discard Smeagol to heal a companion.
Regroup: Discard Smeagol to remove .

Thanks for the review.

Next up, Shadow cards:

•Shelob, Always Hungry
Minion • Spider
Strength: 8
Vitality: 8
Site Number: 8
Fierce. Hunter 3.
While Shelob is skirmishing a non-hunter, she is damage +1.
While Shelob is skirmishing a companion with resistance 2 or less, she is strength +2.

Nice, but no potential to explode like the other copies of Shelob. Maybe add that she’s strength +1 for each wound on each character in her skirmish, a sorta toned down enduring.

•Growing Fear
Condition • Support Area
At the start of the maneuver phase, you may exert Shelob to make an unbound companion resistance -3 until the regroup phase.
Shadow: Spot X companions with resistance 3 or less to play Shelob; her twilight cost is -X. Discard this condition.

WHOA! Free exertion? That just means tougher for the enduring Shelobs

Sudden Bound
Event • Skirmish
Make Shelob strength +2 (or strength +3 and damage +1 if she is skirmishing a companion with resistance 2 or less).

Basic pump. Nice.

•Shelob, Always Hungry
Minion • Spider
Strength: 8
Vitality: 8
Site Number: 8
Fierce. Hunter 3.
While Shelob is skirmishing a non-hunter, she is damage +1.
While Shelob is skirmishing a companion with resistance 2 or less, she is strength +2.

•Growing Fear
Condition • Support Area
At the start of the maneuver phase, you may exert Shelob to make an unbound companion resistance -3 until the regroup phase.
Shadow: Spot X companions with resistance 3 or less to play Shelob; her twilight cost is -X. Discard this condition.

Sudden Bound
Event • Skirmish
Make Shelob strength +2 (or strength +3 and damage +1 if she is skirmishing a companion with resistance 2 or less).

Thanks for the review.

•Shelob, Always Hungry
Minion • Spider
Strength: 8
Vitality: 8
Site Number: 8
Fierce. Hunter 3.
While Shelob is skirmishing a non-hunter, she is damage +1.
While Shelob is skirmishing a companion with resistance 2 or less, she is strength +2.
great card. nothing to say.

•Growing Fear
Condition • Support Area
At the start of the maneuver phase, you may exert Shelob to make an unbound companion resistance -3 until the regroup phase.
Shadow: Spot X companions with resistance 3 or less to play Shelob; her twilight cost is -X. Discard this condition.
again good

Sudden Bound
Event • Skirmish
Make Shelob strength +2 (or strength +3 and damage +1 if she is skirmishing a companion with resistance 2 or less).

Thanks for the reviews. Shelob dropped her 2nd ability for a better strength ability, and Growing Fear now only spots Shelob instead of exerting.

Here’s the rest of the culture:

•Gollum, Deceiving Guide
Minion
Strength: 5
Vitality: 4
Site Number: 3
When you play Gollum, you may exert him to play Shelob from your discard pile.
Skirmish: Exert Gollum twice to exert a companion skirmishing a minion.
Looks like Ninja Gollum material, right here! Seems pretty good.

Endless Brooding
Event • Maneuver
Exert Shelob to add a threat.
Nice, simple card. Not much I can say. It’d be cool to make it... bigger? Like War Towers... It can add more threats. Maybe, "and add an additional threat for each companion with resistance 2 or less"?

Stench of Death
Condition
Resistance -2
To play, spot Shelob.
Bearer must be a companion (except the Ring-bearer).
When you play this condition, you may remove a threat or a burden to exert bearer.
A free exertion and less resistance. Maybe limit one per bearer? With the exertion thing and all... although you probably wouldn’t have to, seems fine as is.