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Revision as of 01:07, 1 March 2022
Ring-bearer
Your Ring-bearer is a companion who you place on the table before your starting fellowship, bearing the One Ring He or she is the key component of your deck, as all strategies rely on killing or corrupting the Ring-bearer, and you only win if your Ring bearer is alive at the regroup phase at site nine.
At the game's initial release with Fellowship of the Ring, the only playable Ring-bearer was Frodo, and if Sam was in play when he died, the One Ring would pass to Sam and you would continue on with Sam as your Ring-bearer. This remained true until the release of Reflections, when 6 new Alternate Ring-bearers became available. Alternate Ring-Bearers represented what would happen if Frodo had given or had the One Ring taken by one of the characters. They were typically lower in resistance than Frodo, but compensated by having higher strength usually. This allowed for monoculture decks, since 
Gondor, 
Elven, 
Dwarven, and 
Gollum all recieved Ring-bearers.
Once Bloodlines was released, two new alternate Ring-bearers were made of Sam and Gandalf, allowing ever culture but 
Rohan to have a Ring-bearer.
Rules Entries
You may choose any character with the ringed resistance icon, or any version of Frodo, to be your Ring-bearer. You may choose any version of The One Ring. These two cards are not part of your draw deck (they do not count against your total of Free Peoples cards).
- Ring-bearer and The One Ring section
One Free Peoples character always begins the game as your Ring-bearer. (See building your deck.) He bears The One Ring for you, much as when Frodo carried the Ring in his pocket or on a chain around his neck.
If a character other than Frodo is your Ring-bearer, you cannot play any version of Frodo with the Ring-bearer keyword during the game.
While wearing The One Ring, your Ring-bearer can perform all normal actions such as moving and skirmishing. He may defend against attacking minions as usual.
The Ring-bearer cannot be discarded or returned to your hand, and skirmishes involving the Ring-bearer cannot be cancelled.- Ring-bearer section
