Each Orc enemy gets +1 
+1 
and +1 
.
When Revealed: Each player must search the encounter deck and discard pile for an Orc enemy and put it into play engaged with him. Shuffle the encounter deck.
Several Orcs spring upon you from their hiding place! Their surprise attack puts you on the defensive. You must fight to gain the upper hand.
If the current quest is a side quest, Rugged Country gets +2 .
Shadow: Attacking enemy gets +1 for each quest card in play.
X is the number of quest cards in play.
While there is only 1 quest card in play, Shrouded Hills gains Surge.
As the sun rose and passed noon they glimpsed far off in the east the grey–green lines of the Downs... –The Fellowship of the Ring
When Revealed: Either search the encounter deck and discard pile for an encounter side quest and reveal it, or choose a different quest card in play to be the current quest until the end of the phase. Shuffle the encounter deck.
"But often I must put mirth aside." –Aragorn, The Fellowship of the Ring
When Revealed: Reveal 1 encounter card for each quest card in play.
Shadow: Defending player discards 1 attachment for each quest card in play.
You've lost your way in the vastness of Arnor. You must search around until you find your trail again.
When Revealed: Each player places all cards in his hand facedown underneath Lost in the Wilderness.
Forced: When Lost in the Wilderness is defeated, return each card underneath it to its owner's hand.
When Revealed: Assign X damage among characters commited to the quest. X is the number of characters committed to the quest.
Shadow: Deal 1 damage to the defending character.
When Revealed: Each player deals 1 damage to a hero he controls. Attach Cold from Angmar to the current quest. Counts as a Condition attachment with the text:
Treat each damaged character's printed text box as if it were blank, except for keywords and Traits.
"...the weather may prove a more deadly enemy than any." –Gandalf, The Fellowship of the Ring
Characters cannot be healed.
Response: After Make Camp is defeated, each player heals up to 3 damage from a hero he controls.
Your companions are exhausted from tireless effort, but you must find a safe place to make camp before you can tend to their needs.
Forced: After the "when revealed" effect of a treachery card is canceled, raise each player's threat by 2.
Shadow: Attacking enemy gets +1 . If this attack destroys a character, the defending player raises his threat by 2.
Forced: When Ancient Causeway is explored, raise each player's threat by 2.
...on either side of it there were lines of large boulders and hewn stones that screened the travellers almost like a hedge. –The Fellowship of the Ring
When Revealed: Raise each player's threat by the of the active location.
Shadow: Defending player either raise his threat 3, or this attack is considered undefended.
Your enemies lurk somewhere in the decrepit ruins around you: a constant threat until you search them out...
Forced: At the end of the refresh phase, raise each player's threat by 2.
Response: After Search the Ruins is defeated, reduce each player's threat by 3.
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1
2
When Revealed: Put each copy of Cursed Dead in the discard pile into play in the staging area.
Shadow: Attacking enemy gets +1 (+2 instead if there is a copy of the defending character in its owner's discard pile).
Forced: At the end of the refresh phase, discard the top 3 cards of the encounter deck. Return the topmost Undead enemy in the encounter discard pile to the staging area.
The undead keep rising from the grave. For each one that you strike down, another takes its place. You must do something to stem the tide...
When Revealed: Each player discards the top 3 cards of his deck. Until the end of the round, add 2 to the total in the staging area for each different card type discarded this way.
Shadow: Defending player discards the top 3 cards of his deck. Attacking enemy gets +1 for each different card type discarded this way.
When Revealed: Attach to the current quest. Counts as a Condition attachment with the text:
When a player plays a card, increase its cost by 1 if there is a card that has the same title in its owner's discard pile.
"Earth, air and water all seem accursed. But so our path is laid." –Frodo, The Two Towers
Cards in each player's discard pile cannot leave that player's discard pile by player card effect.
Forced: After this stage is defeated, each player shuffles the top 5 cards of his discard pile back into his deck.
You must uncover the source of this evil that sets its will against yours.
Forced: After an enemy is defeated, place 1 resource token here. Then, if there are at least X resource tokens here, flip Hunting the Orcs and place each resource token that was on it on Savage Counter-attack. X is 3 more than the number of players in the game.
It is Night. Progress cannot be placed quest cards. Encounter card effects cannot be canceled.
Forced: When it becomes Night, reveal an encounter card.
Forced: At the end of the round, flip this objective.
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Cannot have attachments.
Cannot be optionally engaged.
Forced: After Pack Leader engages you, exhaust a character you control for each Warg enemy engaged with you.
3
1
4
When Revealed: Each Warg enemy gets +1 until the end of the phase.
Shadow: After this attack, attacking enemy engages the next player, then makes an immediate attack (deal a new shadow card for that attack).
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2
5
While Blood-thirsty Warg is in the staging area, it gains:
Forced: When it becomes Night, Blood-thirsty Warg engages the first player and makes an immediate attack.
The wold snarled and sprang towards them with a great leap.
–The Fellowship of the Ring
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3
6
Cannot have attachments.
While a player is making an engagement check against Hunting Pack, it gets -1 engagement cost for each damaged character that player controls.
"...who now will wish to journey south by night with the wild wolves on his tail?" –Gandalf, The Fellowship of the Ring
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3
Forced: After White Warg engages you, deal 1 damage to a character you control (2 damage instead if it is Night).
Shadow: If it is Night, attacking enemy makes an additional attack after this one.
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3
While it is Night, Wolf of Angmar gets +2
Shadow: Attacking enemy gets +1 (+2 instead if it is Night).
While Eriador Wastes is in the staging area, no more than 5 progress can be placed on the current quest each round.
Travel: The first player engages a Warg enemy in the staging area and deals it a shadow card.
"...the long leagues of Eriador still lie before us." –Aragorn, The Fellowship of the Ring
Immune to player card effects.
Travel: The first player searches the encounter deck and discard pile for a Warg enemy, reveals it, and puts it into play engages with him. Shuffle the encounter deck.
The howling of the wolves was now all around them... –The Fellowship of the Ring
While it is Night, North Downs gets +2 .
Shadow: Attacking enemy gets +1 . If this attack destroys a character, remove all progress from the current quest.
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8
Forced: After 1 or more captured cards are rescued, Jailor Gornákh engages the player with the highest threat and makes an immediate attack.
"Come on now! We've talked enough. Let's go and have a look at the prisoner!"
–Shagrat, The Two Towers
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2
3
Forced: When Cruel Torturer would damage an ally by an attack, capture that ally underneath Cruel Torturer instead.
"You'll get bed and breakfast all right: more than you can stomach"
–Uglúk, The Two Towers
2
1
2
Response: After the captured card(s) underneath Dungeon Guard are rescued, the players may put 1 of them into play at no cost.
X
1
3
X is the number of cards in play with 1 or more captured cards underneath them.
Shadow: Attacking enemy gets +1 (+2 instead if it has no captured cards underneath it).
Response: After the players travel to Prison Cell, look at the captured card(s) underneath it and choose 1 to put into play at no cost. Place the other cards back underneath Prison Cell.
...goblins don't care who they catch, as long as it isa done smart and secret, and the prisoners are not able to defend themselves.
–The Hobbit
Travel: Each player raises his threat by 3 to travel here.
Shadow: Attacking enemy gets +1 (+2 instead if the defending player's threat is 20 or higher).
X is the number of captured cards underneath Tunnels of Mount Gram.
Shadow: Capture each attachment attached to the defending character underneath the attacking enemy.
When Revealed: Each player must either deal 1 damage to each exhausted character he controls, or remove each exhausted character he controls from the quest.
Shadow: Exhaust a character you control.
When Revealed: Each player chooses one of his allies and captures it underneath the encounter card with the highest .
Shadow: If this attack would damage an ally, capture that ally underneath the attacking enemy instead.
When Revealed: Each player discards the top card of his captured deck and raises his threat by that card's printed resource cost. If at least 1 player discarded no cards from this effect, Interrogation gains doomed 2
Shadow: Discard a random card from your hand and raise your threat by its printed cost.