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Indestructible. Immune to player card effects.
Cannot leave the staging area (except by quest effect) but is considered to be engaged with the first player.
Forced: If Smaug the Magnificent is dealt a shadow card with a burgle effect, he makes an additional attack immediately after this one.
While at least 1 card is stacked underneath, The Lonely Mountain is immune to player card effects, cannot leave the staging area, and gets -2 for each card stacked under it.
Action: While making a burgle attempt, the first player may spend 2 
resources to take the revealed card into hand and reveal the next card of his deck.
Immune to player card effects.
Forced: Remove 2 progress from stage 3B at the end of each round, if able.
Travel: Spend 3 resources to travel here. (1 resource instead if stage 3B is the current quest.)
Immune to player card effects.
Forced: Remove 2 progress from stage 2B at the end of each round, if able.
Travel: Spend 3 resources to travel here. (1 resource instead if stage 2B is the current quest.)
Immune to player card effects.
While there is at least 1 other location in play, players cannot travel here.
Travel: The first player must make a Hide 3 test to travel here.
After Bucklebury Ferry leaves play as an explored location, the players win the game.
Immune to player card effects.
While Weathertop is in the victory display, each enemy in play gets -1
Travel: The first player must exhaust The One Ring to travel here.
"It was burned and broken, and nothing remains of it now but a tumbled ring..."
–Strider, The Fellowship of the Ring
Immune to player card effects.
X is the number of players in the game.
Travel: The first player must reveal the top card of the burden deck and resolve that card as if it were just revealed from the encounter deck to travel here.
Immune to player card effects.
Response: After Ford of Bruinen leaves play as an explored location, all engaged enemies are discarded.
Travel: The first player must reveal the top card of the encounter deck to travel here.
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Immune to player card effects.
The Witch-king gets -30 engagement cost while The One Ring is exhausted.
Characters with 1
or less cannot defend attacks made by The Witch-king.
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Indestructible. Immune to player card effects.
Cannot leave the staging area but is considered to be engaged with each player.
Forced: After placing the 6th damage here, the first player takes control of the Ring-bearer, exhausted with 1 damage on it.
Immune to player card effects.
Forced: When Redhorn Pass is explored, each player assigns X damage among characters he controls. X is the number of damage here.
"We may well be seen by watchers on that narrow path..." –Gandalf, The Fellowship of the Ring
Immune to player card effects.
Progress cannot be placed on each other active location before it can be placed here. Progress cannot be placed here unless the first player controls the Ring-bearer.
If there are 9 damage tokens, the players lose the game.
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Cannot be optionally engaged. The Balrog and shadow cards dealt to The Balrog are immune to player card effects.
While in the staging area, The Balrog is considered to be engaged with the first player and only the first player can declare attackers against The Balrog.
Immune to player card effects.
Response: When The Great Bridge is explored, discard a hero from play to deal X damage to The Balrog. X is that hero's threat cost. Then, The Balrog loses all keywords for the remainder of the game. Any player may trigger this response.
Immune to player card effects.
The player cannot advance to the next stage.
Travel: Each player searches the encounter deck and discard pile for a different enemy and adds it to the staging area to travel here. One of those enemies must be Orc-chieftain, if able.
Immune to player card effects.
Travel: Search the encounter deck and discard pile for an enemy and add it to the staging area to travel here. Shuffle the encounter deck.
While Parth Galen is in play, the players cannot win the game.
Immune to player card effects.
Response: When Seat of Seeing is explored, choose a burden card in play, in the encounter deck, or in the discard pile, and remove it from the game. Shuffle the encounter deck. (If you are playing campaign mode, remove that card from the campaign pool.)
Immune to player card effects. X is the number of players in the game.
The players cannot travel here while Sarn Gebir is in play. While The Argonath is the active location, skip the combat phase.
"Behold the Argonath, the Pillars of the Kings!"
-Aragorn, The Fellowship of the Ring
Immune to player card effects.
Forced: When Sarn Gebir is explored, deal 1 damage to each exhausted character.
"Boats of the Elves would not sink, maybe." he said, "but that does not say that we should come through Sarn Gebir alive. None have ever done so yet." –Boromir, The Fellowship of the Ring
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Indestructible.Immune to player card effects. Cannot leave the staging area.
Forced: When Saruman is dealt a shadow card with a Wizardry effect, the defending player resolves that Wizardry effect as if he is the only player in the game.
Immune to player card effects.
While Orthanc is in the staging area, it gains:"Forced: After the players quest successfully, the first player looks at the top 3 cards of the encounter deck, reveals 1, and discards the others."
Still dark and tall, unbroken by the storm, the tower of Orthanc stood. –The Two Towers
Immune to player card effects.
Forced: When the Gates of Isengard is explored, each player searches the encounter deck and discard pile for an enemy and puts it into play engaged with him. Shuffle the encounter deck.
Here through the black rock a long tunnel had been hewn, close at either end with mighty doors of iron. –The Two Towers
Immune to player card effects.
The Cross-roads gets -1 for each facedown card under it. The players cannot travel here unless there are 0 facedown cards under The Cross-roads and at least 20 progress tokens on stage 1B.
"We must go to the Cross–roads. But make haste! Be silent!" -Gollum, The Two Towers
Immune to player card effects.
Forced: After Morgul Vale is explored, search the encounter deck and discard pile for a Morgul Wraith and add it to the staging area. Shuffle the encounter deck. Then, the first player must either exhaust The One Ring or discard 1 random card from each player's hand.
Immune to player card effects.
Travel: Either exhaust Sm茅agol, or discard 1 random card from each player's hand.
Forced: After Sm茅agol's Secret Way is explored, each player either exhausts a character he controls, or discards 1 random card from his hand.
"...a stair, a narrow stair, O yes, very long and narrow. And then more stairs." -Gollum, The Two Towers
Immune to player card effects.
While The Cleft of Cirith Ungol is in the victory display, Shelob gets +2 loses the Indestructible keyword, and gains: "Shelob engages the first player."
Travel: Place 1 resource on Shelob to travel here.
The Cleft, Cirith Ungol, was before him, a dim notch in the black ridge... -The Two Towers
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Cannot have non-Morgul attachments.
While The One Ring is exhausted, Morgul Wraith gets -30 engagement cost and gains: "Immune to player card effects."
"They see everything, everything. Nothing can hide from them." -Gollum, The Two Towers
Immune to player card effects.
Forced: After The Stone of Erech becomes the active location, each player searches the encounter deck and discard pile for an Oathbreaker enemy and adds it to the staging area. Shuffle the encounter deck.
Travel: Remove 5 progress from stage 3B to travel here.
Immune to player card effects.
X is the number of resources on Grond.
Forced: At the beginning of the quest phase, place 1 resource on Grond. Then, deal X damage to Minas Tirith.
Travel: The Witch-king makes an immediate attack against each player, in turn order.
Immune to player card effects.
While Gate of Gondor is the active location, each enemy in play gets -30 engagement cost.
Forced: When Gate of Gondor is explored, return each engaged enemy to the staging area.
...it was the key, the weakest point in all that high and impenetrable wall. –The Return of the King
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Immune to player card effects.
Cannot be optionally engaged or take damage.
Forced: At the beginning of the quest phase, discard cards from the encounter deck until an enemy is discarded. Add the discarded enemy to the staging area.
Immune to player card effects. The players cannot travel here.
The Black Gate gets +1 for each resource on it.
Forced: At the beginning of the quest phase, place 1 resource here and raise each player's threat by 1.
The great doors of the Black Gate swung back wide. Out of it streamed a great host as swiftly as swirling waters when a sluice is lifted.
–The Return of the King
Immune to player card effects.
X is the number of characters controlled by the player with the most characters.
While Towers of the Teeth is the active location, players cannot play allies.
...now near loomed the great rampart of Cirith Gorgor, and the Black Gate amidmost, and the Two Towers of the Teeth tall and dark upon either side.
–The Return of the King
While Wall of Morannon is the active location, each enemy and location in the staging area is immune to player card effects.
Forced: After Wall of Morannon becomes of the active location, return each engaged enemy to the staging area.
...behind the Morannon were the tunnels and deep armouries that the servants of Mordor had made for the defence of the Black Gate...
–The Return of the King
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Immune to player card effects. Cannot leave the staging area.
Forced: After a player cancels a 'when revealed' effect, The Mouth of Sauron makes an immediate attack against that player.
The Lieutenant of the Tower of Barad–d鈥搑 he was...
–The Return of the King
Immune to player card effects. X is the tens digit of the first player's threat dial.
The players cannot travel here unless there is at least 20 progress on stage 3B.
Travel: Each player makes a Fortitude test. If a player fails this test, raise his threat by 9.
He raised his eyes with difficulty to the dark slopes of Mount Doom towering above him...
–The Return of the King
Immune to player card effects.
X is twice the stage number of the main quest.
Forced: After the players travel here, flip The Two Watchers to its enemy side and move it to the staging area.
They were like great figures seated upon thrones. Each had three joined bodies, and three heads facing outward, and inward, and across the gateway.
–The Return of the King
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Immune to player card effects. Cannot be optionally engaged.
Forced: When The Two Watchers deals any amount of damage, cancel that damage and raise the defending player's threat by X instead. X is the amount of damage just canceled.
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Immune to player card effects.
When Revealed: Smaug the Mighty makes an immediate attack against each player (deal and resolve a shodow card for each attack).
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Immune to player card effects.
When Revealed: Resolve all burn damage from all locations in play
"My armour is like tenfold shields, my teeth are swords, my claws spears, the shock of my tail a thunderbolt, my wings a hurrican, and my breath death!"—The Hobbit
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Immune to player card effects. X is twice the number of players in the game.
While The Stone of Erech is that active location, characters with less than 2 cannot ready.
Travel: Exhaust each character with less than 2
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Indestructible. Immune to player card effects.
Forced: When Old Man Willow attacks, discard a random location from the victory display. The defending player raises his threat by X, where X is that location's victory point value.
Immune to player card effects.
The player cannot win the game while Withywindle is in play.
While Withywindle is the active location, the first player reveals 1 additional encounter card during the quest phase.
"The Withywindle valley is said to be the queerest part of the whole wood..." –Merry, The Fellowship of the Ring
Immune to player card effects.
Forced: When Naurlh没g鈥檚 Lair is explored, add the Loot objective from underneath Stalking the Ruins to the staging area faceup.
Travel: Place X resources on Stalking the Ruins where X is the number of players.