When Revealed: Attach to a Ship objective. (Counts as a Condition attachment with the text:"Forced: When attached objective exhausts, deal 2 damage to it.Action: Exhaust 3 character you control to discard Taking on Water.")

Shadow: If defending character is a ship, attach Taking on Water to it.

Boarding 1. Cannot have attachments.

Forced: At the end of the round, if the Stormcaller is engaged with a player, either return it to the staging area or shift your heading off-course.

Corsair Slaver gets +1 and +1 for each resource on it.

Forced: After the engaged player spends any number of resources, place 1 of those resources on Umbar Slaver.

While Watch Tower is in the staging area, it gains:"Forced: When a Raider enemy enters play, add 1 resource to it."

Shadow: If this attack destroys an ally, add resources to a Raider enemy in play equal to that character's printed resource cost.

Each Raider enemy with at least 1 resource on it is immune to player events.

Forced: At the beginning of the resource phase, add 1 resource to each Raider enemy in play.

So it stood, until after the second arising of Sauron, which now approached. Umbar fell under the dominion of his servants, and the memorial of his humiliation was thrown down.
–The Return of the King

Forced: After an enemy attacks and destroys a character, remove X progress from the main quest, X is the attacking enemy's

At the end of the round, if the main quest has been in play the entire round and there are no progress tokens on it, the players lose the game.

Surge. Archery 1.

Forced: When Umbar Sentry attacks, either remove 1 progress token from the main quest, or it gets +2 for this attack.

Umbar remained at war with Gondor for many lives of men...
–The Return of the King

Response: After the player travel here, choose a non-unique enemy engaged with a player and place it faceup under this location. While an enemy is under this location, that enemy is considered to be out of play.

Forced: After Narrow Alleyway leaves play, put each enemy under it into play, engaged with the first player.

Carrior Birds gets -1 engagement cost for each damaged character in play.

Forced: After Carrion Bird engages you, discard a damaged character you control.

While the temperature is 40 or higher, Burnt Sands gets +2

Forced: After Burnt Sands becomes the active location, increase the temperature by 2.

...all seemed ruinous and dead, a desert burned and choked. –The Return of the King

X is the tens digit of the temperature.

Forced: After Scorched Hamada becomes the active location, assign X damage among characters in play.

Shadow: Raise your threat by X, where X is the tens digit of the temperature.

While Parched Wadi is in the staging area, each Creature enemy gets +1 and +1

Forced: After Parched Wadi becomes the active location, shuffle the encounter discard pile into the encounter deck and discard cards from the top until a Creature enemy is discarded. Add that enemy to the staging area.

X is the tens digit of the temperature.

Forced: After Were-worm engages you, it makes an immediate attack. (Do not deal it a shadow card.)

Shadow: Attacking enemy gets +1 (+2 instead if the temperature is 40 or higher).

X is the stage number on the main quest.

Forced: At the end of the round, assign X damage among characters in play.

Fierce and shrill rose the yells of the Orcs...
–The Fellowship of the Ring

Forced: After Southron Soldier engages you, either remove 2 progress tokens from the main quest, or Southron Soldier makes an immediate attack.

Shadow: Choose an enemy in the staging area. Engage it and deal it a shadow card.

Archery 2.

Forced: After Southron Archer engages you, either remove 2 progress tokens from the main quest, or discard an ally you control.

While Towering Dunes is in the staging area, progress cannot be placed on locations in the staging area not named Towering Dunes.

Forced: After Towering Dunes becomes the active location, reveal the top card of the encounter deck.

While Desert Oasis is the active location, it gains:"Response: When Desert Oasis is explored, heal 4 damage from among characters in play."

Forced: After Desert Oasis becomes the active location, each player exhausts a character he controls.

Players cannot declare defenders against Sand Viper.

Forced: After the players travel to a location, Sand Viper engages the first player.

To some suddenly it seemed that they saw a snake coiling itself to strike.
–The Two Towers

Forced: After Giant Scorpion damages a character, that character cannot ready until the end of the round.

Shadow: If this attack deals damage, the defending character cannot ready until the end of the round.

Forced: When Forest Clearing is explored, discard the top card of the encounter deck. If that card is an enemy, add that enemy to the staging area.

Shadow: Discard an attachment you control.

Forced: When Dense Jungle is explored, discard the top card of the encounter deck. If that card is a location, add that location to the staging area.

Shadow: Discard a random card from your hand.

Cannot have player card attachments or be optionally engaged.

While the engaged player is engaged with another Orc enemy, Uruk Chieftain cannot take damage.

Forced: At the end of the encounter phase, Uruk Chieftain engages the player engaged with the most non-unique Orc enemies.

When Revealed: Attach to an Orc enemy and return that enemy to the staging area. Limit 1 per enemy. (Counts as a Mount attachment with the text: "Attached enemy gets +2 +2 +2 and +2 hit points.

Forced: When attached enemy leaves play, add Mordor Warg to the staging area."

Indestructible. Immune to player card effects.

Cannot take more tha 3 damage each round.

Forced: At the end of the round, the engaged player must choose: either return Wild Mûmak to the staging area, or it makes an immediate attack.

Cannot be optionally engaged.

Forced: After Harad Tiger attacks and destroys a character, return it to the staging area.

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

Surge.

Forced: After Strangling Python damages a character, attach it to that character. (Counts as a Condition attachment with the text: "Attached character cannot ready.")

Forced: After Giant Centipede damages a character, treat that character's text box as if it were blank until the end of the round (except for Traits).

Shadow: Treat the defending character's text box as blank until the end of the round.

When Revealed: Remove a hero from the quest and attach Terrible Fever to that hero. (Counts as a Condition attachment with the text:"Forced: At the end of the round, deal 1 damage to attached character.")

Shadow: Defending character cannot ready until the end of the round.

While the players are not at the same stage as the Orc's stage, Expanse of Harad gets +2

Forced: After Expanse of Harad becomes the active location, raise each player's threat by 2.

The wide plains opened grey before them.
–The Two Towers

X is the stage number of the main quest.

Forced: After Blistering Erg becomes the active location, each player assigns X damage among characters he controls.

It seemed a long way, and he grew hot and very hungry...
–The Return of the King

Surge.

When Revealed: Attach to an Orc enemy. Limit 1 per enemy. (Counts as a Mount attachment with the text: "Attached enemy gets +1 +1 +1 and +1 hit point.Forced: When attached enemy leaves play, return Racing Warg to the staging area.")

Cannot have attachments. Cannot take damage.

Brood Mother engages the first player.

Forced: At the end of the round, search the encounter deck and discard pile for a Spider Broodling and add it to the staging area, if able. Shuffle the encounter deck.

Immune to player card effects.

Forced: After Spider Burrow becomes the active location, flip the Search objective to On Track and add Brood Mother to the staging area.

Forced: When Spider Burrow leaves play as an explored location, set Brood Mother aside, out of play (unless the players are at stage 3B).

Surge. Doomed 1.

When Revealed: Attach to the main quest. Limit 1 per quest. (Counts as a Condition attachment with the text:"Forced: After the Search objective is flipped to Off Track, each player discards an ally he controls. Then, discard Grabbed by Spiders."

Forced: At the end of the quest phase, place 1 progress here. Then, either return the topmost location in the encounter discard pile to the staging area, or raise each player's threat by 1 for each resource here.

Progress cannot be placed on the main quest.

Forced: At the end of the quest phase, search the top 3 cards of the encounter deck for a card with 'On Track' in the lower right corner, add it to the staging area and discard the rest. If no card enters play from this effect, flip this objective.

Forced: After the players quest unsuccessfully, flip this objective.

Cannot leave the staging area or take damage. X is the stage number of the main quest.

The Black Serpent gets +X +X and +X

Forced: At the end of the encounter phase, either remove X progress from the main quest, or The Black Serpent makes an immediate attack against the first player.

Forced: After The Serpent's Guard engages you, either remove 2 progress from the main quest, or enemies engaged with you cannot take damage until the end of the round.

Shadow: Either remove 2 progress from main quest, or attacking enemy cannot take damage this round.

While The Serpent's Redoubt is in the staging area, it gains:"Forced: After a player plays an ally from his hand, either remove 1 progress from the main quest, or exhaust that ally."

Travel: The first player searches the encounter deck and discard pile for an enemy and puts it into play engaged with him. Shuffle the encounter deck.

While Roofless Tower is in the staging area, it gains:"Forced: When a player plays an event, either remove 1 progress from the main quest, or cancel the effects of that event."

Travel: Exhaust a hero to travel here.

While Southron Camp is in the staging area, it gains:"Forced: At the end of the round, remove all progress from each location in play."

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

While a character is attached to an encounter card, it is considered to be a guarded objective with a blank text box.

Forced: When a character is attached to an encounter card, discard each token and attachment on that character.

Forced: When an objective is free of encounters, it is 'rescued' and that character's owner takes control of it, exhausted.

Forced: After Jailer of Cirith Gurat engages you, attach an ally you control to it.

Shadow: If attacking enemy's is greater than defending ally's attach defending ally to attacking enemy. Then, cancel this attack.

While Prison Guard is guarding an objective, it gets +2

While Prison Guard is not guarding an objective, it gains:"Forced: After Prison Guard attacks and damages an ally, attach that ally to Prison Guard."

Surge.

Dungeon Cell gets +X where X is the printed of the attached objective.

While Dungeon Cell is in the staging area, it gains:"Forced: After an ally is destroyed, attach it to Dungeon Cell if there is no objective attached to Dungeon Cell."

While Mines of Cirith Gurat is in the staging area, it gains:"Forced: When a player card would reduce a player's threat by any amount, reduce that amount to 1."

Travel: Each player discards the top 3 cards of his deck and raises his threat by 1 for each ally he discards this way.