Forced: At the end of the round, place 1 resource here. Then if there are at lest 3 resources here, remove 3 of them and shuffle the encounter discard pile into the encounter deck. Discard cards from the top until X enemies are discarded, where X is the number of players. Add each enemy discarded this way to the staging area.
Each non-unique enemy gets +1 
Forced: After an enemy attacks and destroys a character, place 1 damage token here. Then, if there are X damage tokens here, the players lose the game. X is 4 more than the number of players.
While Cave Entrance is in the staging area, it gains:'Forced: At the end of the round, place the top X cards of the encounter discard pile on the bottom of the encounter deck. X is the number of players in the game.'
That, of course, is the dangerous part about caves: you don't know how far they go back. –The Hobbit
When Revealed: Place the top X cards of the encounter discard pile on the bottom of the encounter deck. X is equal to twice the number of players in the game.
Shadow: Shuffle this card into the encounter deck.
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2
8
Forced: After The Great Goblin attacks, discard X cards from the encounter deck where X is the number of players in the game. Add each Goblin enemy discarded by this effect to the staging area.
X is the number of players in the game.
Forced: At the end of the round, remove X progress tokens from the current quest.
There were many paths that led up into those mountains, and many passes over them. But most of the paths were cheats and deceptions and led nowhere or to bad ends. –The Hobbit
X is twice the number of players in the game.
Players cannot travel here.
Immune to player card effects.
Forced: After players advance to stage 3, remove Lake in the Cavern from the game.
Response: After players travel here, the first player puts 1 ally into play from his hand.
Forced: After The Prancing Pony leaves play, discard cards from the top of the encounter deck until X enemies have been discarded. X is the number of players in the game. Put each enemy discarded by this effect into play engaged with the first player.
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.
When Revealed: The first player must deal X damage divided among heroes he controls where X is the number of players in the game.
Shadow: Deal 1 damage to defending character.
3
3
3
X is the number of players in the game.
When Revealed: Assign X damage among characters you control.
When Revealed: Shuffle the encounter discard pile into the encounter deck and discard cards from the top of the encounter deck until X enemies are discarded. X is the number of players in the game. Add each enemy discarded this way to the staging area.
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1
4
Peril. Toughness 1. Archery X.
X is the number of players at this stage.
When Revealed: Discard an ally you control.
...they had bows of yew, in length and shape like the bows of Men. –The Fellowship of the Ring
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
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.
X is the number of players in the game.
While Plain of Isengard is in the staging area, archery damage must be assigned to allies, if able.
Wizardry: Each player discards 1 ally he controls.
When Revealed: Assign X damage among characters committed to the quest. X is one more than the number of players in the game.
Shadow: Attacking enemy gets +1 (+2 instead if the defending player has 1 or fewer cards in his hand).
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.
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1
5
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.
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2
8
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
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.
While Abandoned Mine is in the staging area, progress cannot be placed on locations in the staging area not named Abandoned Mine.
Forced: When resolving the Discover keyword on Abandoned Mine, look at X additional cards where X is the number of players in the game.
8
4
12
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.
When Revealed: The staging area gets +X until the end of the phase, where X is twice the number of players in the game. If the players quest unsuccessfully this phase, put the Nazg没l of Dol Guldur into play (from any out of play area), engaged with the first player. (Cannot be canceled.)
When Revealed: Return the top X Undead enemies in the encounter discard pile to the staging area, where X is the number of players. If no enemies were returned to the staging area as a result of this effect, Devilry of the Dark Land gains surge.
Escape: 10
'But that is an age and more ago,' said Sam. 'The Dead can't be really there!' –The Two Towers
When Revealed: Reveal the top X cards of the encounter deck, adding all enemies to the staging area. Discard the other revealed cards without resolving them. X is 2 plus the number of players not engaged with a Goblin enemy.
Eachoes ran along as they hurried forward; and there seemed to be the sound of many footfalls following their own. –The Fellowship of the Ring
When Revealed: Shuffle X Tentacle enemies from the encounter discard pile into the encounter deck. Heal X damage from The Watcher, if it is in play. X is the number of players in the game.
Twenty other arms came rippling out.
–The Fellowship of the Ring
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5
12
5
Cannot have attachments. Archery X.
X is the number of players in the game.
M没mak Elite cannot take more than 3 damage each round.
Forced: After Drowned Graves is flipped to this side while active, discard the top X cards of the encounter deck. Each player adds an Undead enemy discarded from this effect to the staging area. X is 2 more than the number of players in the game.
...their years lessened as their fear of death grew, and their joy departed. -The Return of the King
Cannot have player card attachments.
Forced: After Lost Island becomes the active location, flip it over.
Action: Remove 4 progress from Lost Island to look at its facedown side.