When Revealed: The Mouth of Sauron makes an immediate attack against you. If this attack destroys a character, ra
Shadow: Attacking enemy gets +1 Attack (+3 Attack instead if it is The Mouth of Sauron).
When Revealed: Each player makes a Fortitude test. If you fail this test, deal 1 damage to each character you control. Until the end of the round, treat the printed text box of each damaged character as if it were blank (except for Traits).
Shadow: If you failed a Fortitude test this round, this attack is considered undefended.
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Forced: After Orc of Mordor engages you, exhaust a c
Shadow: Exhaust a character you control.
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Forced: After Snaga Archer engages you, deal 2 damage to a c
Shadow: Attacking enemy gets +1 Attack (+2 Attack instead if the defending character is damaged).
When Revealed: Each player exhausts a character he controls. If The Eye of Sauron is in the staging area, characters cannot be readied by player car
Shadow: If The Eye of Sauron is in the staging area, attacking enemy gets +2 Attack and returns to the staging area after this attack.
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When Revealed: Each player must choose and exhaust 1 character he controls.
Shadow: Defending player must choose and exhaust 1 character he controls. (2 characters instead if this attack is undefended.)
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When Revealed: Each character currently committed to a quest gets -1 
until the end of the phase.
Shadow: Raise defending player's threat by 4. (Raise defending player's threat by 8 instead if this attack is undefended.)
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During the encounter phase, players cannot optionally engage Goblin Sniper if there are other enemies in the staging area.
Forced: If Goblin Sniper is in the staging area at the end of the combat phase, each player deals 1 point of damage to 1 character he controls.
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When Revealed: The first player chooses 1 character currently committed to a quest. Deal 2 damage to that character.
Shadow: Attacking enemy gets +1 (+3 instead if this attack is undefended.)
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When Revealed: Each player must choose 1 character currently committed to a quest, and remove that character from the quest. (The chosen character does not ready.)
They could not stand that, nor the huge bats, black as a top–hat, either...
–The Hobbit
Response: After you travel to Old Forest Road the first player may choose and ready 1 character he controls.
...Beorn had warned them that that way was now often used by the goblins, while the forest–road itself, he had heard, was overgrown and disused on the eastern end and led to impassable marshes where the path had long been lost.
–The Hobbit
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No attachments can be played on Nazgûl of Dol Guldur.
Forced: When the prisoner is 'rescued', move Nazgûl of Dol Guldur into the staging area.
Forced: After a shadow effect dealt to Nazgûl of Dol Guldur resolves, the engaged player must choose and discard 1 character he controls.
When Revealed: Deal 1 damage to each character controlled by each player with a threat of 35 or higher.
"They say in my land he can govern the storms in the Mountains of Shadow..."
–Boromir, The Fellowship of the Ring
When Revealed: Each player raises his threat by 1 for each character he controls that is not currently committed to a quest.
Shadow: Defending player chooses and returns 1 exhausted ally he controls to its owner's hand. If he controls no exhausted allies, raise his threat by 3.
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Forced: After Gret Spider engages you, exhaust a character you control.
Shadow: Deal 1 damage to an exhausted character you control.
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During the encounter phase, players cannot optionally engage Goblin Sniper if there are other enemies in the staging area.
Forced: If Goblin Sniper is in the staging area at the end of the combat phase, each player deals 1 point of damage to 1 character he controls.
When Revealed: Each player must exhaust a character and discard the top card of his deck, if able. If the printed cost of the discarded card is equal to or higher than the remaining hit points of the exhausted character, discard the exhausted character.
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Forced: If Muck Adder damages a character, discard that character from play.
Shadow: Defending character gets -1 for the duration of this attack.
When Revealed: Deal 1 damage to each character without any attachments.
Shadow: If a character (including Wilyador) has more damage than each other character, deal 3 additional damage to that character.
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Travel: The first player must exhaust 1 character he controls to travel here.
Shadow: Defending player must choose and exhaust 1 character he controls.
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When Revealed: Each player must exhaust a character and discard the top card of his deck, if able. If the printed cost of the discarded card is equal to or higher than the remaining hit points of the exhausted character, discard the exhausted character.
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Allies cannot defend while Snow Warg is attacking.
Forced: After a character is declared as a defender against Snow Warg, deal 1 damage to the defending character, if able.
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Regenerate 2. While there is another Tentacle enemy in play, The Watcher cannot be optionally engaged.
If The Watcher is in the staging area at the end of the combat phase, each player must deal 3 damage to 1 character he controls.
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Forced: When Thrashing Tentacle is attacked, discard the top card of the encounter deck. If that card has a shadow effect or is a Tentacle enemy, deal the damage from the attack to 1 character an attacking player controls (ignoring defense).
If Drowned Treasury is the active location at the end of the quest phase, each player must discard 1 character he controls.
Response: After Drowned Treasury leaves play as an explored location, each player may draw 2 cards or claim 1 objective in play.
While Second Hall is the active location, it gains:
Forced: After a character leaves play, reveal 1 card from the encounter deck and add it to the staging area.
Down the centre stalked a double line of towering pillars. They were carved like boles of mighty trees whose boughs upheld the roof with a branching tracery of stone.
–The Fellowship of the Ring
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When Revealed: Each player must deal 1 damage to a hero he controls.
Forced: After a character leaves play, shuffle Ranging Goblin and the top card in the encounter discard pile back into the encounter deck.
While Celador is in the staging area, he is committed to the current quest.
Forced: After players quest unsuccessfully or a character leaves play, deal 1 damage to Celador.
If Celador leaves play, remove him from the game.
When Revealed: Each character gets -2 and -2 until the end of the round.
Shadow: Deal 2 damage to all Battleground locations in play.
When Revealed: Each player removes 1 character he controls from the quest, if able. Then, if any player has no characters committed to the quest, remove all characters from the quest.
"Seven companions we had: one we lost at Moria, the others we left at Parth Galen above Rauros..." –Frodo Baggins, The Two Towers
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When Revealed: Until the end of the round, Morgul Spider gets +1 for each character not currently committed to a quest.
Far and wide her lesser broods, bastards of the miserable mates, her own offspring, that she slew, spread from glen to glen... –The Two Towers
When Revealed: Each player chooses 1 sphere of influence 
, 
, 
or 
. Each character a player controls that does not belong to his chosen sphere takes 3 damage.
"I doubt not that the days of Gondor are numbered, and the walls of Minas Tirith are doomed, so great is His strength and malice." –Damrod, The Two Towers
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Forced: After Marauding Orc attacks and destroys a character, place 1 damage token on Dead Villagers.
Shadow: If this attack destroys a character, discard 1 villager token from Rescued Villagers.
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Cannot have attachments.
Forced: At the beginning of each resource phase, the engaged player must deal 3 damage to a character he controls.
"We could not see them, of course, but the whole air was full of creaking." –Merry, The Two Towers
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Forced: After Orc Skirmisher engages a player, that player must either deal 3 damage to a character he controls, or remove 1 time counter from the current quest.
Shadow: Attacking enemy gets +1 .
