If Frodo's Choice is discarded, reveal it instead.

When Revealed: Take control of the first player token and the Ring-bearer (and each card attached to it). Attach to the Ring-bearer. For the rest of the game, you cannot lose control of the first player token.

"I will go alone." –Frodo, The Fellowship of the Ring

Setup: Add Overcome by Grief to the staging area.

Forced: After a character is destroyed, if Overcome by Grief is unattached, attach to a hero. (Counts as a Condition attachment with the text:"Forced: After a character you control is destroyed, exhaust attached hero. Until the end of the round, attached hero cannot ready.")

Setup: Add Grievous Wound to the staging area.

"Forced: After a hero takes damage, if Grievous Wound is unattached, attach to that hero. (Counts as a Condition attachment with the text:"Forced: After attached hero exhausts, deal 1 damage to it.")

Setup: The first player claims The One Ring and attaches it to the Ring-bearer.

Attached hero does not count against the hero limit. The first player gains control of attached hero.

If The One Ring leaves play, the players lose the game.

Treat each Captive's text box as blank. Captives are in play but are not under any player's control. If there are no Captives in play, the players lose the game.

Forced: At the end of the refresh phase, increase the pursuit value by 1. Then, if the pursuit value is 30 or greater, the players lose the game.

Add 1 to the total in the staging area for each resource token here.

Forced: At the end of the quest phase, place 1 resource token here.

If there are 8 resource tokens here, add The of Helm's Deep to the victory display and advance to stage 5A.

While Ent of Fangorn is in the staging area, it gains: "QuestAction: Exhaust a hero you control to discard the top card of the encounter deck. If that hero's is greater than the discarded card's place 1 resource here. Then, if there are 3 resources here, discard them to take control of Ent of Fangorn. Any player may trigger this effect."

Forced: After a player draws any number of cards, Saruman attacks that player. Deal and resolve 2 shadow cards for this attack. Then, remove 1 damage from Saruman.

While Saruman has any hit points remaining, the players cannot win the game.

Forced: At the end of the planning phase, place each Harad enemy in the staging area facedown underneath The Black Gate.

If there are at least X facedown cards underneath The Black Gate, the players lose the game. X is 3 more than the number of players.

Permanent.

Setup: Attach to the Ring-bearer.

Forced: At the end of the planning phase, either raise each player's threat by 1, or exhaust the Ring-bearer.

"It's heavy on me, Sam lad, very heavy. I wonder how far I can carry it?"
-Frodo Baggins, The Two Towers

Setup: The first player claims The One Ring and attaches it to the Ring-bearer.

Attached hero does not count against the hero limit. The first player gains control of attached hero.

If The One Ring leaves play, the players lose the game.

Immune to player card effects. The first player gains control of Sméagol.

Forced: After the players quest unsuccessfully, flip Sméagol to Gollum.

If Sméagol is destroyed, the players lose the game.

Setup: Attach to your threat dial. Limit 1 per threat dial.

Your threat cannot be reduced.

Forced: At the end of the round, raise your threat by 1. Then you may spend 1 resource to detach Overcome by Fear and set it aside, out of play.

Minas Tirith has 30 hit points plus 10 for each player.

Forced: At the end of the round, deal 1 damage to Minas Tirith for each enemy in the staging area. Then, if Minas Tirith has no hit points remaining, the players lose the game.

Immune to player card effects. The first player gains control of Army of the Dead.

Setup: The first player takes control of Army of the Dead.

If Army of the Dead leaves play, remove it from the game.

"Now come! By the Black Stone I call you!"
–Aragorn, The Return of the King

Forced: At the beginning of the staging step, place 1 resource on this objective. Then, each player must choose: either reveal an encounter card, or assign X damage among characters he controls. X is the number of resources here.

...ships of great draught with many oars, and with black sails bellying in the breeze. –The Return of the King

Forced: At the beginning of the quest phase, remove 1 resource from The Corsair Fleet. Then, if there are no resources here, the first player takes control of Aragorn and adds The Corsair Fleet to the victory display.

"The oars were now wielded by free men, and manfully they laboured..."
–Legolas, The Return of the King

Attached hero gains the Ring-bearer trait and the sphere. You cannot lose control of the first player token.

Action: Exhaut The One Ring and raise your threat by 1 to choose an enemy. Until the end of the phase, that enemy gets -X where X is the attached hero's

Ranged. Sentinel.

When Revealed: The first player must choose: either take control of Gwaihir, or spend 1 resource and discard Gwaihir to discard a non-unique enemy in the staging area.

Shadow: This attack deals no damage.

Players do not raise their threat at the end of the refresh phase.

Forced: At the end of the round, each player raises his threat by 1 for each non- character he controls.

...blacker and darker than the vast shades amid which it stood, the cruel pinnacles and iron crown of the topmost tower of Barad–d–r.
–Return of the King

Setup: The first player claims The One Ring and attaches it to the Ring-bearer.

Attached hero does not count against the hero limit. The first player gains control of attached hero.

If The One Ring leaves play, the players lose the game.

Add Eye to each Fortitude test.

Forced: At the end of the round, flip The Eye of Sauron, then move it and each Nazgûl enemy in the staging area to The Black Gate Opens staging area. The first player may raise each player's threat by 3 to cancel this effect.

Each enemy in the staging area gets +1 and -10 engagement cost.

Forced: At the end of the round, flip The Eye of Sauron, the move it and each Nazgûl enemy in the staging area to the Mount Doom staging area. The first player may raise each player's threat by 3 to cancel this effect.

When Revealed: The first player takes control of Ranger of Ithilien exhausted and committed to the quest. Then, Ranger of Ithilien gains surge.

Shadow: Deal 2 damage to attacking enemy. The defending player may exhaust a character he controls to take control of Ranger of Ithilien.

If Lake-town has 50 or more damage on it, Lake-town has completely burned and the players have lost the game.

"It was not built on the shore, though there were a few huts and buildings there, but right out on the surface of the lake, protected from the swirl of the entering river by a pomonotory of rock which formed a calm bay."
—The Hobbit

Guarded.

Action: Exhaust a hero to claim this objective and attach it to that hero when it is free of encounters. (Counts as an attachment with the text: "If detached discard The Old Thrush.

Response: After attached hero exhausts to attack Smaug, discard X cards from hand to reduce Smaug's by X.")

Forced: After the players travel to The Stone of Erech, the first player gains control of Derufin.

Dusk. Derufin gets -1

Midnight. Derufin gets -2

If Derufin leaves play, the players lose the game.

Forced: At the end of the round, place 1 progress on Eventide.

If there are 4 or more progress on Eventide, add it to the victory display and put Dusk into play.

Forced: At the end of the round, place 1 progress on Dusk.

If there are 4 or more progress on Dusk, add it to the victory display and put Midnight into play.

Forced: At the end of the round, place 1 progress on Midnight. Then, raise each player's threat by the number of progress on Midnight.

Midnight. Action: Claim this objective and attach it to a hero you control. Counts as an Artifact attachment with the text: "When attached hero attacks and Oathbreaker that enemy loses the Spectral keyword until the end of the phase."

When Revealed: Choose a player. That player gains control of Tom Bombadil, ready and committed to the quest. At the end of the round, discard Tom Bombadil. Then Shuffle the encounter discard pile into the encounter deck. This effect cannot be canceled.

"Tom Bom, jolly Tom, Tom Bombadillo!"
–Tom Bombadil, The Fellowship of the Ring

Forced: At the beginning of the quest phase, place 1 progress token on Stalking the Ruins. Then, if there are at least 3 resources here, add or return Naurlhûg to the staging area.

Forced: When the players advance to a new quest stage, discard all tokens from Stalking the Ruins. Then, set Naurlhûg aside, out of play.

Loot. Restricted.

If unattached, the first player claims Sword of Belegost and attaches it to a hero he controls.

Attached hero gets +4

Response: Exhaust Sword of Belegost to cancel a shadow effect just triggered.

Loot.

If unattached, the fist player claims Map of Ered Luin and attaches it to a hero he controls.

Action: Exhaust Map of Ered Luin to choose a non-unique location. That location gets -2 until the end of the phase.

Loot.

If unattached, the fist player claims Keys of Belegost and attaches it to a hero he controls.

Action: Exhaust Keys of Belegost to choose a hero. Add 1 resource to that hero's resource pool.

Loot.

If unattached, the fist player claims Book of Aulë’s Children and attaches it to a hero he controls.

Action: Exhaust Book of Aulë’s Children to choose a player. That player draws 1 card.

Loot.

If unattached, the fist player claims Dwarven Torch and attaches it to a hero he controls.

Action: Exhaust Dwarven Torch to choose a non-unique enemy. That enemy gets -1 and -1 until the end of the phase.

Loot.

If unattached, the fist player claims Blue Mountain Gem and attaches it to a hero he controls.

Action: Exhaust Blue Mountain Gem to choose a player. Reduce that player's threat by 1.

When Revealed: Choose a player. That player gains control of Tom Bombadil, ready and committed to the quest. At the end of the round, discard Tom Bombadil. Then shuffle the encounter discard pile into the encounter deck. This effect cannot be canceled.

"Tom Bom, Jolly Tom, Tom Bombadillo!" –Tom Bombadil, The Fellowship of the Ring

Forced: At the end of the round, deal 1 damage to Annúminas for each enemy at each stage.

If the city strength of Annúminas reaches 0, the city is overrun by the forces of Angmar and all teams lose the game.

Surge. Ranged. Sentinel.

When Revealed: Any player may spend 1 resource to take control of Dúnedain of Annúminas. Otherwise, discard it.

Shadow: Ready the defending character and give it +2 for this attack.

While the players are at stage 3, Dol Guldur gains:"Forced: At the end of the round, after resolving the Forced effect on each stage 3 in play, reduce Dol Guldur's city strength by X, where X is the total siege value of each location explored and each enemy destroyed at each stage this round."

While you control Power of Lórien it gains:"Response: Add Power of Lórien to the victory display to cancel and discard an encounter card just revealed from the encounter deck."

"...do not think that only by singing amid the trees, nor even by the slender arrows of elven–bows, is this land of Lothlórien maintained and defended..."
–Galadriel, The Fellowship of the Ring

Ranged. Sentinel.

Immune to player card effects.

Does not exhaust to quest.

If Host of Lórien leaves play, remove it from the game.

Ranged. Sentinel.

The first player gains control of Mendor.

If Mendor leaves play, the players lose the game.

Immune to player card effects. Sentinel.

Each hero you control gets +1

Setup: Choose a hero you control. Until the end of the game, that hero gains the printed Traits of another hero you control.

The Eithiliant, or "The Rainbow Spearpoint,", is an extremely swift elvent schooner featuring a swan motif.

Immune to player card effects. Sentinel.

Each hero you control gets +2

Response: After Eithiliant flips, shuffle up to 6 cards from your discard pile into your deck. Place 6 progress on a location in any group.

Immune to player card effects. Ranged. Sentinel.

Each hero you control gets +1 hit point.

Reduce your threat by 3. Choose a hero you control. Until the end of the game, that hero gains ranged.

The Golden Wing is equipped with a massive ballista.

Immune to player card effects. Ranged. Sentinel.

Each hero you control gains +2 hit points and gains ranged.

Response: After Golden Wing flips, deal 6 damage to an enemy in any group.