Never seen a 0 DEF ally defend against a Balrog before?

You just pump all the stat boost onto Lily Cotton and use her to build indestructable Brandybuck walls that you get for free every round. Balin and Eleanor cancel everything else. In the final form of the deck you can have one of them defend against 4 enemies with like 20 , and some unused actions of them you can instead attack with 10+ .