If the current quest is a side quest, Rugged Country gets +2 .
Shadow: Attacking enemy gets +1 
for each quest card in play.
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When Revealed: Each Warg enemy gets +1 until the end of the phase.
Shadow: After this attack, attacking enemy engages the next player, then makes an immediate attack (deal a new shadow card for that attack).
While it is Night, North Downs gets +2 .
Shadow: Attacking enemy gets +1 . If this attack destroys a character, remove all progress from the current quest.
You search through the ashes of the keep's destroyed rooms. If you are diligent, you may be able to find a clue as to Iârion's ancestry.
While Sift through the Debris is the current quest, each location in the staging area gets +1
Forced: After a location is explored, place 2 progress on Sift through the Debris.
When this quest is defeated, flip it over.
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Carn Dûm Garrison gets +1 for each shadow card currently dealt to it.
Shadow: Attacking enemy gets +1 for each shadow card currently dealt to it.
Unholy Crypt gets +1 for each Reanimated Dead in play.
Shadow: if this attack destroys a character, reanimate that character and deal it 1 shadow card.
When Revealed: Either each player must exhaust a character he controls, or each Lost Island in the staging area gets +1 until the end of the phase.
Shadow: Discard the bottom card of your deck. If that card's printed cost is 2 or less, exhaust a character you control.
Burning Piers gets +1 for each damage on it.
Forced: When Burning Piers is placed underneath The Havens Burn, deal 3 damage to the Dream-chaser.
Shadow: Add Burning Piers to the staging area.
When Revealed: Each Uncharted location in the staging area gets +1 until the end of the phase. If the active location has the Ruins trait, discard 1 resource from each hero and objective-ally in play.
If you are off-course (Cloudy, Rainy, Stormy), Coast of Anfalas gets +2 Travel: Exhaust a Ship objective to travel here.
Shadow: If you are off-course (Cloudy, Rainy, Stormy), attacking enemy gets +2
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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.
When Revealed: Add 2 resources to a Raider enemy in the staging area. Each Raider enemy in the staging area gets +1 for each resource on it until the end of the phase. If there are no Raider enemies in the staging area, Foes of Ecthelion gains surge.
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
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.
When Revealed: Discard cards from the encounter deck until a Harad enemy is discarded. Add that enemy to the staging area and place a resource token on it. That enemy is "the Champion." While this stage is in play, the Champion gets +2 +2 +2 and gains: Immune to player card effects. The main quest stage cannot be defeated while the Champion is in play."
The champion cannot take damage unless there are at least 4 progress tokens here. This stage cannot be defeated while the champion is in play.
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While Southron Captain is in the staging area, each other Harad enemy gets +1
While Southron Captain is engaged with you, each other Harad enemy engaged with you gets +1
The Uruks of Mordor attack with a savagery that is difficult to match.
Each Orc enemy in the staging area gets -5 engagement cost.
Each Orc enemy engaged with a player gets +1
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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."
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Territorial Ape gets +X and + X where X is the of the active location.
Shadow: Attacking enemy gets +1 (+2 instead if a location was explored this round).
The great apes of the jungle gather in the trees around you. They shadow your steps and slow your progress.
Each location gets +1
Forced: When Guardians of the Jungle becomes the current quest, search the encounter deck and discard pile for a Territorial Ape and put it into play engaged with the first player.
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
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When Revealed: If the players are not at the same stage as the Orcs, add the total of each card in the Orc's area to the total in the staging area until the end of the phase. If the players are at the same stage as the Orcs, each enemy gets +1 until the end of the phase.
Shadow: Raise your threat by 1.
While On Track is in play, Cobwebbed Cavern gets +2
Shadow: Exhaust a character you control.
Attached encounter card gets +2 and is immune to player card effects.
Action: Exhaust The Serpent's Garb and raise your threat by 1 to give a Harad enemy in the staging area -2 until the end of the phase.
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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.
Desert Bastion gets +1 for each Harad objective attached to a hero.
Shadow: Attacking enemy gets +1 for each Harad objective the players control.
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."
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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 attack against the first player.
While any player has threat of 35 or higher, Shadowy Vale gets +3
Forced: After Shadowy Vale becomes the active location, reveal the top card of the encounter deck.
...nothing could waft away the glooms and the sad mists that clung about the Mountains of Shadow...
–The Return of the King
When Revealed: Add the top card of the Evil Creatures deck to the staging area and attach Frenzied Creature to it. (Counts as a Condition attachment with the text: "Attached enemy gets +1 +1 +1 and is immune to player card effects")
Shadow: Attach this card to attacking enemy.
Lonely Lands gets +2 for each facedown card under it.
While Lonely Lands is in the staging area, it gains:"Forced: After an event is played during the quest phase, place it facedown under Lonely Lands."
Twilight Hall gets +2 for each resource on it.
Forced: After a Forest location is explored, place 1 resource here.
Travel: Raise each player's threat by 1 for each resource here. If there are no resources on Twilight Hall, the players cannot travel here.
When Revealed: Until the end of the phase, each non-objective location in the staging area gets +1 (+2 instead if it has at least 1 progress token on it). If the number of non-objective locations in the staging area is less than the number of players, Vastness of Mirkwood gains surge.
Contested Depths gets +1 for each location in the victory display.
Forced: After the players travel to Contested Depths, either raise each player's threat by 1 for each location in the victory display, or discard Contested Depths and replace it with the top card of the Caves deck.
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While Hobgoblin is guarding a card, it gets +X +X and +X where X is that card's cost.
Forced: After Hobgoblin enters play, the first player attaches the top card of his deck to Hobgoblin faceup as a guarded attachment. When Hobgoblin leaves play, return the card it was guarding to its owner's hand.
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Cannot have attachments or take non-combat damage.
Cold-Drake gets +1 and +1 for each Dragon Sign in the victory display.
Forced: After Cold-Drake is dealt a shadow card with no shadow effect, the defending character cannot ready until the end of the round.
Cave Entrance gets +1 for each Dragon Sign in the victory display.
Travel: Raise each player's threat by 1.
That, of course, is the dangerous part about caves: you don't know how far they go back, sometimes, or where a passage behind may lead to, or what is waiting for you inside.
–The Hobbit
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Deep. While there are 3 or more quest cards in the victory display, Desecrated Ruins gets +2 .
Shadow: Attacking enemy gets +1 . If this attack destroys a character, each player discards a random card from his hand.
When Revealed: Each enemy and each location in the staging area gets +1 until the end of the phase. If the players quest unsuccessfully this phase, place 1 progress on The Goblins' Assault.
Shadow: Discard a non-objective attachment you control.
While attached to an enemy, counts as a Mount attachment with the text: "Attached enemy gets +2 Forced: At the end of the round, return attached enemy to the staging area."
When Revealed: Attach to the lowest engagement cost Easterling enemy without an Easterling Horse and return it to the staging area. Otherwise, Easterling Horse gains surge.
When Revealed: Each copy of Rolling Plains gets +2 until the end of the phase.
Travel: Raise each player's threat by 2.
The falling stream vanished into a deep growth of cresses and water–plants, and they could hear it tinkling away in green tunnels, down long gentle slopes...
–The Two Towers
Attached enemy gets +1 +1 and +1
When Evidence of the Cult is free of encounters, add it to the victory display. Then, place 1 resource on the main quest.
City Forum gets +1 for each resource here.
While City Forum is in the staging area, it gains:"Forced: After a location is explored, place 1 resource here."
Travel: Each player raises his threat by 1 for each resource here.
The longer you wander the streets, the more unwanted attention you attract.
Each location in the staging area gets +1
Forced: After Unwelcome Travelers becomes the current quest, the first player discards cards from the top of the encounter deck until an enemy is discarded and puts it into play engaged with him.
While attached to an enemy, counts as a Condition attachment with the text: "Attached enemy gets +1 +1 +1 and is immune to player card effects."
When Revealed: Attach to the Easterling enemy with the lowest without a copy of Fanaticism. Otherwise, Fanaticism gains surge.
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While The Challengers is ahead of The Wainriders, Veteran Wainrider gets +2 and cannot leave the staging area.
Shadow: Attacking enemy gets +2 if The Challengers is ahead of the Wainriders.