The Lord of the Rings Card Game The Wastes of Eriador

“What roads would any dare to tread, what safety would there be in quiet lands, or in the homes of simple men at night, if the D’nedain were asleep, or were all gone into the grave?” Aragorn, The Fellowship of the Ring For nearly seven-hundred years, the Witch-king of Angmar terrorized the North from his home in Carn Dum. Though his forces were eventually defeated, the shadows of the Witch-king’s evil have lain across the lands through all the centuries that followed his departure from the region. Now, in The Lord of the Rings: The Card Game â The Wastes of Eriador, several of Middle-earth’s heroes must join forces with the noble Dunedain who have long guarded the regionâs simpler folk from the untold evils that still reside within Carn DÃm and its environs. Following immediately upon the heels of the epic events that unfold in The Lost Realm deluxe expansion, the scenario from The Wastes of Eriador tasks you to rescue a captive Ranger. However, as you pursue the enemies who have captured him, your trail leads you ever northward, ever deeper into the hills of Angmar. There, as day fades into night, the howling of wolves suggest that your party of hunters may soon become the hunted…