While Northern Slopes is in the staging area, each Goblin enemy gets +1 
and +1 
.
While Northern Slopes is the active location, it gains: "Forced: When a character leaves play, remove 1 progress from the current quest, if able."
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.)
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Cannot have attachments.
For each point of excess damage dealt by Cave-troll (damage that is dealt beyond the remaining hit points of the character damaged by its attack) remove 1 progress from the current quest.
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.
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Immune to player card effects.
Forced: After Host of Angmar attacks and destroys a character, either remove 2 progress from the main quest, or return Host of Angmar to the staging area.
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Forced: After Warg of Carn D–m engages you, either remove 1 progress from the main quest, or exhaust a character you control.
Up from the dark plain below came the crying of fell voices, and the howling of many wolves
–The Fellowship of the Ring
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Forced: When Orc of Angmar attacks, either remove 1 progress from the main quest, or it gets +2 until the end of the phase.
Shadow: Defender gets -2 until end of round.
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Forced: After Angmar Warg-rider engages you, either remove 2 progress from the main quest, or it makes an immediate attack.
Shadow: Exhaust a character you control.
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Forced: After Savage Werewolf attacks and destroys a character, remove 3 progress from the main quest.
Shadow: Attacking enemy makes an additional attack against you after this one.
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X is the number of players.
Cannot have attachments.
Forced: At the end of the encounter phase, if Host of Dol Guldur is in the staging area, remove X progress from the main quest.
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Forced: After Mirkwood Olog-hai attacks and destroys a character, remove 1 progress from the main quest for each excess point of damage.
Shadow: Either remove 2 progress from the main quest, or return attacking enemy to the staging area.
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Beast of Taur-nu-Fuin cannot have attachments and its shadow cards cannot be canceled.
Forced: When Beast of Taur-nu-Fuin attacks, either remove 2 progress from the main quest or deal it an additional shadow card.
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Forced: After Amon Lanc Archer engages you, either remove 2 progress from the main quest, or deal 2 damage to an ally you control.
Shadow: Exhaust a character you control.
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Dol Guldur Marauder gets +1 and +1 for each resource on it.
Forced: When Dol Guldur Marauder attacks, either remove 1 progress from the main quest or place 1 resource on Dol Guldur Marauder.
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Forced: After Battle Warg engages you, either remove 1 progress from the main quest or discard an attachment you control.
Shadow: Discard an attachment you control.
While Forest Stream is in the staging area, it gains:"Forced: At the end of the round, remove 2 progress from the main quest."
Travel: Raise each player's threat by 2.
When Revealed: Remove 5 progress tokens from the main quest and attach Turned Around to it. (Counts as a Condition attachment with the text: "Attached quest gets +5 quest points.")
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Forced: After Spider Broodling engages you, remove 2 progress from the main quest.
Shadow: Attacking enemy gets +1 If this attack destroys a character, remove 2 progress from the main quest.
Travel: Remove 2 progress from the main quest.
Shadow: Remove 2 progress from the main quest.
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Forced: When Cave Spider attacks, either remove 2 progress from the main quest, or Cave Spider gets +2 for this attack.
Shadow: Either remove 2 progress from the main quest or attacking enemy gets +2
When Revealed: Attach to the active location and remove all progress from that location. (Counts as a Condition attachment with the text:"Limit 1 per location. Attached location contributes its during the quest phase as if it were in the staging area.")
If The Trail Goes Cold does not attach to a location as a result of this effect, it gains surge.
X is the number of Dark locations in play.
When Revealed: Remove all progress from each Dark location in play.
Shadow: Attacking enemy gets +1 for each Dark location in play.
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Forced: After engaging Wolfpelt Goblin the engaged player must deal X damage to 1 character he controls, where X is the active location's remaining quest points. Then, remove 2 progress from the active location, if able.
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Forced: After Vengeful Hillman attacks and destroys a character, remove 1 progress the current quest card for each card in the defending player's hand.
Shadow: Attacking enemy gets +2
While Tangled Forest is in the staging area, it gains:"Forced: After any amount of progress is removed from the current quest, assign X damage amoung characters in play. X is the number of progress just removed. This ability does not stack with other copies of Tangled Forest."
When Revealed: Either remove 6 progress from the current quest, or remove 1 time counter from the current quest.
Shadow: Attacking enemy gets +1 If this attack destroys a character, remove all progress from the current quest.
When Revealed: Search the encounter deck, discard pile and victory display for a copy of Orc War Party and add it to the staging area. Shuffle the encounter deck. Either remove all progress from the main quest, or each Orc War Party in the staging area makes an immediate attack against the player with the highest threat.
Forced: At the end of the round, remove X progress from the main quest, where X is the number of Warg enemies in play.
Response: When this quest is defeated, discard a non-unique Warg enemy in the staging area.
When Revealed: If your heading is off-course (Cloudy, Rainy, or Stormy), make Sharp Jetties the active location, returning any currently active location to the staging area.
Forced: When any amount of progress is placed on Sharp Jetties, either remove an equal amount of progress from the current quest, or deal an equal amount of damage to each Ship objective.
When Revealed: Until the end of the quest phase, each ally gets -1
If the active location has the Grotto trait, remove all progress from it and flip it to its Underwater side.
Shadow: If the active location is Underwater treat this attack as if it were undefended.
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Forced: After Great Warg attacks and destroys a character, remove all progress from the current quest.
Shadow: Defending player discards 1 attachment he controls.
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Forced: When Frenzied Warg-Rider attacks, remove 1 progress from each quest stage.
Shadow: Deal 1 damage to the defending character (2 damage instead if the current quest has no progress on it).
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Cannot be optionally engaged.
Forced: At the end of the round, if Gundabad Elite is in the staging area, either remove 2 progress from the current quest, or Gundabad Elite makes an attack against the first player.
When Revealed: Reduce the Ring-bearer's life by 1 and remove all progress from the current quest.
Shadow: Either reduce the Ring-bearer's life by 1, or this attack is considered undefended.