I was checking those and will continue to do so. Looks interesting so far. I remember some of Menace’s earliest SW cards from back when I was around. Nice to see the concept wasn’t abandoned.

•The One Ring, Birthday-Present
Strength +1
Vitality +1
Skirmish: Add a burden to wear The One Ring until the regroup phase.
Response: While wearing The One Ring, each time the Ring-bearer is about to take any number of wounds, add two burdens or a burden and a threat instead.
“‘That’s what we wants now, yes; we wants it! My birthday-present! It came to me on my birthday, my precious....’”

•Thorin, Oakenshield
Companion • Dwarf
Strength: 7
Vitality: 4
Signet: Gandalf
Damage +1.
While you can spot a Dwarf and a non-Dwarf companion, Thorin’s twilight cost is -2.
Maneuver: Exert Thorin and spot X Free Peoples races (limit 4) to make X unbound companions strength +1 (or +2 if that companion has the Thorin signet) until the regroup phase. Limit once per turn.
“‘To me! To me! Elves and Men! To me! O my kinsfolk!’ he cried, and his voice shook like a horn in the valley.”

•Isildur, Son of Elendil
Companion • Man
Strength: 7
Vitality: 3
Resistance: 6
Knight.
Maneuver: Add a threat to take a discarded or weapon into your hand.
Assignment: Exert Isildur to assign him to a minion another character has been assigned to.
“‘It was at this moment, when all hope was lost, that Isildur, son of the king, took up his father’s sword....’”

•Bilbo, Expert Burglar
Companion • Hobbit
Strength: 3
Vitality: 4
Signet: Gandalf
Ring-bearer (resistance .
Each time the fellowship moves, add two threats. If you cannot, add a burden instead.
Fellowship: Exert Bilbo to play a event or condition from your discard pile. If it is a stealth card, its twilight cost is -1.
“He put the ring in his pocket almost without thinking: certainly it did not seem of any particular use at the moment.”

<14>•Smaug, Chiefest and Greatest of Calamities
Minion • Dragon
Strength: 16
Vitality: 6
Site: 9
Lurker. Damage +1. Fierce.
Smaug may not take wounds during the archery phase and may not bear possessions.
Smaug is strength +2 for each threat you can spot (limit +6).
“‘My armour is like tenfold shields, my teeth are swords, my claws spears, the shock of my tail a thunderbolt, my wings a hurricane, and my breath death!’”

•Great Goblin, Truly Tremendous One
Minion • Orc
Strength: 9
Vitality: 3
Site: 4
Lurker. Fierce.
To play, spot a Orc.
Each time a Orc wins a skirmish, you may exert Great Goblin twice to capture a character in that skirmish.
“‘Murderers and elf-friends!...Take them away to dark holes full of snakes, and never let them see the light again!’”

More To Come Yet
Condition • Support Area
Regroup: If there are fewer than 2 cards stacked here, spot your Troll to stack that minion here.
Shadow: Remove a threat to play a Troll stacked here as if played from hand.
Maneuver: Spot a minion stacked here and discard this condition to capture a companion.
“‘...we’d best get out of the light.’”

•Quest of Erebor
Condition • Support Area
Tale. To play, spot three Dwarves and another Free Peoples race (except Elf).
Each time a Dwarf companion moves to a mountain or underground site, you may remove .
“‘I do not suppose that when it started Thorin had any real hope of destroying Smaug. There was no hope. Yet it happened.’”

•Gandalf, Disturber of the Peace
Companion • Wizard
Strength: 7
Vitality: 4
Signet: Frodo
If Gandalf is in your starting fellowship and you can spot a Hobbit, his twilight cost is -1.
Maneuver: Exert Gandalf twice (or once if you can spot a Ring-bound Hobbit) to take a tale into hand from your discard pile.
“‘If you’re referring to the incident with the dragon, I was barely involved. All I did was give your uncle a little nudge out of the door.’”

•Boromir, Captain of the White Tower
Companion • Man
Strength: 7
Vitality: 3
Resistance: 6
Knight.
If you can spot another two companions, Boromir is damage +1.
Regroup: Exert Boromir and another two Men (or one knight) to liberate a site.
“‘Never again will the land of my people fall into enemy hands!’”

•Ring of Barahir, Heirloom of the House of Isildur
Artifact • Ring
Bearer must be Aragorn.
While you can spot three races in the fellowship, Aragorn is resistance +1.
While you can spot four races in the fellowship, each other companion is resistance +1.
“For this ring was like to twin serpents, whose eyes were emeralds, and their heads met beneath a crown of golden flowers, that the one upheld and the other devoured....”

•Horn of Boromir, The Great Horn
Possession
Bearer must be Boromir.
Maneuver: Exert Boromir and discard X cards from hand to prevent a minion whose vitality is X from being assigned to a skirmish until the regroup phase.
“Loud the challenge rang and bellowed...for a moment the orcs quailed and the fiery shadow halted.”

•You Will Taste Man Flesh
Condition • Support Area
To play, spot three Uruk-hai.
Each time the Free Peoples player increases the move limit, you may exert an Uruk-hai to wound a Man companion.
“‘Do not stop until they are found. You do not know pain. You do not know fear....’”

Redhorn Pass
Site 4 [FotR]
Mountain. When the fellowship moves to this site, wound each Hobbit companion or add two threats.

•Gimli, Stout and Strong
Companion • Dwarf
Strength: 6
Vitality: 3
Signet: Thorin
Damage +1.
Assignment: Spot a wounded companion assigned to a skirmish and exert Gimli to make him strength +1 and defender +1 until the regroup phase.
“‘Baruk Khazâd! Khazâd ai-mênu!’”

•Sméagol, Helps Nice Master
Companion
Strength: 3
Vitality: 4
Signet: Frodo
Ring-bound. To play, add a burden and a threat.
While you can spot two Hobbit companions, the move limit is +1.
Response: If Sméagol is not exhausted and is about to be overwhelmed, discard a card from hand to exhaust him instead.
“‘Follow Sméagol very carefully, and you may go a long way, quite a long way, before He catches you....’”