Forced: After Wild Hillman attacks, place 1 progress on the active location.

Shadow: Place 1 progress on the active location. Attacking enemy gets +1 for each progress on the active location.

Peril. Archery 1.

When Revealed: Warrior of Dunland makes an immediate attack against you.

Forced: After Warrior of Dunland attacks and destroys a character, place 3 progress on the active location.

Toughness 1. Archery 1.

Forced: After Soldier of Isengard attacks and destroys a character, place 1 progress on the current quest.

Shadow: Exhaust a character you control.

While The Hornburg is the active location, reduce the archery total by 1 for each player in the game.

Forced: When The Hornburg is explored, assign X damage among characters in play. X is the number of enemies in play.

But the Hornburg still held fast, like an island in the sea. –The Two Towers

While Deeping Wall is the active location, each hero gets +1

Forced: When Deeping Wall is explored, raise each player's threat by 4.

The Deeping Wall was twenty feet high, and so thick that four men could walk abreast along the top, sheltered by a parapet over which only a tall man could look. –The Two Towers

X is the 1 more than the number of allies controlled by the first player.

Forced: When Deeping Culvert is explored, each player searches the encounter deck and discard pile for an enemy, reveals it, and adds it to the staging area. Shuffle the encounter deck.

Orcs had crept like rats through the culvert through which the stream flowed out. –The Two Towers

While Postern Door is the active location, each hero gets +1

Forced: When Postern Door is explored, until the end of the round, players cannot declare attacks.

There was a small postern–door that opened in an angle of the burg–wall on the west, where the cliff stretched out to meet it. –The Two Towers

While Helm's Gate is the active location, if any player is not engaged with an enemy, the first player reveals an encounter card at the end of each staging step.

Forced: When Helm's Gate is explored, each enemy gets -20 engagement cost and +2 until the end of the round.

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.

Doomed 2.

Forced: After Gríma attacks a player, that player shuffles Gríma back into the encounter deck and reveals an encounter card.

Shadow: This attack is considered undefended.

Forced: After Lieutenant of Orthanc attacks and destroys a character, that character's controller discards 1 random card from his hand.

"Saruman kept enough wisdom not to trust his Orcs. He had Men to guard his gates..." –Merry, The Two Towers

Forced: When Wolf of Isengard is dealt a shadow card with a Wizardry effect, either discard 1 card from your hand, or Wolf of Isengard makes an additional attack against you after this one.

Shadow: Deal 1 damage to the defending character.

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

While Ring-wall of Isengard is in the staging area, it gains:"Forced: After any amount of damage is healed from a character, its owner discards 1 card from his hand."

Wizardry: Each player discards 1 random card from his hand.

While Underground Armoury is in the staging area, it gains:"Forced: After an enemy engages a player, deal it a shadow card."

Wizardry: Each player exhausts a character he controls.

The shafts ran down by many slopes and spiral stairs to caverns far under; there Saruman had treasuries, store–houses, armouries, smithies, and great furnaces. –The Two Towers

While Steaming Vent is in the staging area, it gains:"Forced: After a player commits characters to the quest, he deals 1 damage to a questing character he controls."

Wizardry: Assign X damage among characters in play. X is 1 more than the number of players in the game.

While Open Pit is in the staging area, it gains:"Forced: After a player draws any number of cards from a player card effect, he raises his threat by 2."

Wizardry: Each player raises his threat by 2.

Toughness 2.

Forced: After Uruk-hai Fighter attacks and destroys a character, return it to the staging area.

Shadow: Discard a non-objective attachment you control.

Peril. Doomed 2.

When Revealed: Remove a hero from the quest and attach Saruman’s Voice to that hero. (Counts as a Condition attachment with the text:"Forced: When attached hero commits to a quest, is declared and attacker or defender, or triggers its ability, its controller must discard 1 card from his hand.")

The Searching Eye functions like a player card.

Forced: After you draw this card, either exhaust each hero you control, or reveal an encounter card.

...that horrible growing sense of a hostile will that strove with great power to pierce all shadows of cloud, and earth, and flesh... -The Two Towers

The engaged player cannot reduce his threat.

Forced: After Groping Dead attacks and destroys a character, place 1 mire token on the active location.

Shadow: If this attack destroys a character, place 1 mire token on the active location.

The engaged player cannot reduce his threat.

Forced: After Dead Things attacks and destroys a character, the defending player raises his threat by 3.

Shadow: Raise your threat by 1 for each Undead enemy engaged with you.

The engaged player cannot reduce his threat.

Forced: After Candle-bearer attacks and destroys a character, it cannot take damage until the end of the round.

Shadow: Until the end of the round, attacking enemy cannot take damage.

Mire 3. Forced: When Evil-smelling Fens is discarded by the Mire keyword, deal 1 damage to each character.

Travel: Raise each player's threat by 1 to travel here.

Shadow: Deal 1 damage to defending character.

Surge.

Mire 1. Forced: When Shifting Quagmire is discarded by the Mire keyword, either return a random location from the victory display to the staging area, or raise each player's threat by 1 for each location in the victory display.

Travel: Spend 1 resource to travel here.

Mire 2. Forced: When Haunted Mere is discarded by the Mire keyword, search the encounter deck and discard pile for an Undead enemy, reveal it, and add it to the staging area. Shuffle the encounter deck.

Travel: Exhaust Smeagol to travel here.

"They lie in all the pools, pale faces, deep deep under the dark water." -Frodo, The Two Towers

Mire 5. Forced: When Stagnant Pools is discarded by the Mire keyword, raise each player's threat by 5.

Stagnant Pools gets +1 for each mire token on it.

Travel: Exhaust Smeagol to travel here.

Mists curled and smoked from dark and noisome pools. The reek of them hung stifling in the still air. -The Two Towers

Mire 1. Forced: When Soft Mires is discarded by the Mire keyword, the first player reveals an encounter card.

Travel: Raise each player's threat by 1 to travel here.

The hobbits soon found that what had looked like one vast fen was really an endless network of pools, and soft mires... -The Two Towers

Surge. Doomed 1.

When Revealed: Attach to the current quest. (Counts as a Condition attachment with the text:"Forced: At the end of the refresh phase, place 1 mire token on each location in the staging area. Then, discard Creeping Marshes.")

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.

Surge. Archery 1.

Forced: After Man of Harad engages you, discard 1 random card from your hand.

Shadow: Discard 1 random card from your hand.

Forced: After Captain of Harad engages you, each Harad enemy gets +1 and -10 engagement cost until the end of the round.

Shadow: If this attack destroys a character, return attacking enemy to the staging area.

While Henneth Ann–n is the active location, skip both the encounter phase and combat phase, and ignore the Forced effects on stage 1B and The Black Gate.

Forced: After Henneth Ann–n becomes the active location, return each engaged enemy to the staging area.

"This is the Window of the Sunset, Henneth Ann–n, fairest of all the falls of Ithilien..." -Faramir, The Two Towers

While Ithilien Woods is the active location, it gains:"Forced: After a player engages a Harad enemy, he readies a character he controls."

Travel: The first player reveals an encounter card to travel here.

Ithilien, the garden of Gondor now desolate kept still a dishevelled dryad loveliness. -The Two Towers

While Hills of Ithilien is the active location, it gains:"Forced: After a player engages a Harad enemy, deal 1 damage to that enemy."

Shadow: Discard a non-objective attachment you control.

Indestructible.Cannot have attachments.

Shelob gets +1 for each resource on her.

Forced: At the beginning of the quest phase, either place 1 resource on Shelob, or she makes an immediate attack against the first player.

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 Sméagol, or discard 1 random card from each player's hand.

Forced: After Sméagol'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

Forced: When The Spider's Lair is explored, remove 1 resource from Shelob.

Forced: After The Spider's Lair becomes the active location, Shelob makes an attack against the first player.

There agelong she had dwelt, an evil thing in spider–form, even such as once of old had lived in the Land of the Elves in the West that is now under the Sea... -The Two Towers

While The Under-way is in the staging area, each Orc enemy gets -5 engagement cost and gains:"Forced: After this enemy engages a player, deal it a shadow card."

Shadow: Deal the attacking enemy 2 additional shadow cards.

While Deep Dark Passage is in the staging area, it gains:"Forced: When any amount of progress would be placed on a location in the staging area, reduce that amount by 1."

Travel: Exhaust Sméagol to travel here.

Not since the lightless passages of Moria had Frodo or Sam known such darkness, and if possible here it was deeper and denser. -The Two Towers

While Den of Night is in the staging area, it gains:"Forced: After a `When Revealed' effect is canceled, place 1 resource on Shelob."

Travel: Place 1 resource on Shelob to travel here.

Here was some opening in the rock far wider than any they had yet passed; and out of it came a reek so foul, and a sense of lurking malice so intense, that Frodo reeled. -The Two Towers

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

Cannot have attachments or take more than 3 damage each round.

Forced: After Oliphaunt engages you, exhaust each ally you control.

Shadow: Attacking enemy gets +3

Forced: After Haradrim Soldier engages you, it makes an immediate attack.

Shadow: Attacking enemy makes an additional attack against you after this one.

Archery X. X is the number of players in the game.

Forced: After Haradrim Archer engages you, assign X damage among characters you control.

Shadow: Deal 1 damage to the defending character.

Immune to non- player card effects. Gollum engages the first player.

Forced: After Gollum engages the first player during the refresh phase, he makes an immediate attack.

Forced: When Gollum is defeated, flip him to Sméagol and exhaust Sméagol.

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.

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.