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Die

When the number of wounds on a character equals his vitality, or when he is overwhelmed in skirmish, that character is immediately killed. Place killed Free Peoples characters (companions and allies) in your dead pile. The dead pile is separate from and next to your discard pile. Place all of your killed minions in your discard pile.

When you have a unique companion or ally in your dead pile, you may not play another copy of that card, or any other card with the same title. (You may play another copy of a non-unique card that is in your dead pile.)

A unique card has a dot (•) in its card title.

When you discard a companion or ally to use its game text or as a result of some other effect, place that card in your discard pile, not your dead pile.

If your Ring-bearer is killed, you immediately lose the game. The exception to this rule is if Sam is in play when Frodo is killed. In that case, you may use Sam's response action to make Sam the new Ring-bearer.