Immune to player card effects.
Forced: When the Gates of Isengard is explored, each player searches the encounter deck and discard pile for an enemy and puts it into play engaged with him. Shuffle the encounter deck.
Here through the black rock a long tunnel had been hewn, close at either end with mighty doors of iron. –The Two Towers
While Ring-wall of Isengard is in the staging area, it gains:"Forced: After any amount of damage is healed from a character, its owner discards 1 card from his hand."
Wizardry: Each player discards 1 random card from his hand.
While Underground Armoury is in the staging area, it gains:"Forced: After an enemy engages a player, deal it a shadow card."
Wizardry: Each player exhausts a character he controls.
The shafts ran down by many slopes and spiral stairs to caverns far under; there Saruman had treasuries, store–houses, armouries, smithies, and great furnaces. –The Two Towers
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.
While Open Pit is in the staging area, it gains:"Forced: After a player draws any number of cards from a player card effect, he raises his threat by 2."
Wizardry: Each player raises his threat by 2.
Mire 5. Forced: When Stagnant Pools is discarded by the Mire keyword, raise each player's threat by 5.
Stagnant Pools gets +1 for each mire token on it.
Travel: Exhaust Smeagol to travel here.
Mists curled and smoked from dark and noisome pools. The reek of them hung stifling in the still air. -The Two Towers
Mire 1. Forced: When Soft Mires is discarded by the Mire keyword, the first player reveals an encounter card.
Travel: Raise each player's threat by 1 to travel here.
The hobbits soon found that what had looked like one vast fen was really an endless network of pools, and soft mires... -The Two Towers
While Southward Road is the active location, each player may optionally engage an additional enemy during the encounter phase.
Travel: The first player reveals the top facedown card under The Cross-roads and adds it to the staging area to travel here.
"These cursed Southrons come now marching up the ancient roads to swell the hosts of the Dark Tower." -Mablung, The Two Towers
When Revealed: Each player must either return an enemy engaged with him to the staging area, or search the encounter deck for a Harad enemy and put it into play engaged with him.
Shadow: Attacking enemy gets +1 
If this attack destroys a character, place attacking enemy facedown under The Black Gate.
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When Revealed: Either discard 1 random card from each player's hand, or Orc of Cirith Ungol makes an immediate attack against you.
"I say, something has slipped. And we've got to look out. Always the poor Uruks to put slips right." -Gorbag, The Two Towers
Immune to player card effects.
Forced: After Morgul Vale is explored, search the encounter deck and discard pile for a Morgul Wraith and add it to the staging area. Shuffle the encounter deck. Then, the first player must either exhaust The One Ring or discard 1 random card from each player's hand.
Immune to player card effects.
Travel: Either exhaust Sméagol, or discard 1 random card from each player's hand.
Forced: After Sméagol's Secret Way is explored, each player either exhausts a character he controls, or discards 1 random card from his hand.
"...a stair, a narrow stair, O yes, very long and narrow. And then more stairs." -Gollum, The Two Towers
When Revealed: Each player discards 1 random card from his hand and 1 non-objective attachment he controls.
Shadow: Discard a non-objective attachment you control.
"Ugh! That smell!" he said. "It's getting stronger and stronger." -The Two Towers
Setup: Attach to the Ring-bearer.
Forced: At the end of the planning phase, either raise each player's threat by 1, or exhaust the Ring-bearer.
"It's heavy on me, Sam lad, very heavy. I wonder how far I can carry it?"
-Frodo Baggins, The Two Towers
When Revealed: Each player must choose: either return an enemy engaged with him to the staging area, or reveal an encounter card.
Shadow: Attacking enemy gets +1 If this attack destroys a character, return attacking enemy to the staging area.
When Revealed: Shelob gets +2 until the end of the phase. Then, she makes an immediate attack against each player in turn order.
Shadow: If attacking enemy is Shelob, she makes an additional attack against you after this one.
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 sta
While Deadly ~Road is in the staging area, it gains: "Forced: After a 'when revealed' effect is canceled, raise each player's threat by 1."
Travel: Spend 1 Fellowship res
"I was held to the road only by the will of Aragorn."
-Gimli, The Return of the King
Haunted Path gets +1 Threat for each player with a threat of 35 or higher.
Travel: Raise each player's threat
Shadow: Either raise your your threat by 2, or return attacking enemy to the staging area after this attack.
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When Revealed: Either raise each player's threat by 2, or reveal an addit
Shadow: Attacking enemy gets +1 Attack and loses the Phantom keyword for this attack.
When Revealed: Each player with a threat of 35 or higher deal 1 damage to each exhausted c
Shadow: If your threat is 35 or higher, defending character cannot ready until the end of the round.
When Revealed: Each player must choose: either attach a set aside Overcome by Fear to your threat dial, or discar
Shadow: Either attach a set aside Overcome by Fear to your threat dial, or attacking enemy makes an additional attack after this one.
X is the number of resources on The ~Corsair Fleet.
The players cannot travel here unless there are at least 3 Ship locations in the victory display.
Travel: Each player searches the encounter deck and discard pile for a Corsair enemy and adds it to the staging area. One of those enemies must be ~Corsa
When Revealed: Each player must choose: either add 3 to the total Threat in the staging area until the end of the phase, or discard the highest cost at
Shadow: Attacking enemy gets +1 Attack. If this attack destroys a character, discard an attachment you control.
Minas Tirith has 30 hit points plus 10 for each player.
Forced: At the end of the round, deal 1 damage to Minas Tirith for each enemy in the staging area. Then, if Minas Tirith has no hit points remaining, the p
Immune to player card effects.
X is the number of resources on Grond.
Forced: At the beginning of the quest phase, place 1 resource on Grond. Then, deal X damage to Minas Tirith.
Travel: The Witch-king makes an immediate attack against each p
While City Wall is the active location, damage that would be placed on Minas Tirith must be placed here first.
Forced: When City Walls has damage equal to its quest points, discard it. Then, each player ra
For the main wall of the City was of great height and marvellous thickness... -The Return of the King
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Cannot have attachments or take more than 3 damage each round.
Forced: When War Mûmak is defeated, reduce each
When Revealed: Each player searches the encounter deck and discard pile for an enemy and puts it into play engaged with him. Shuffl
Shadow: Either deal 3 damage to Minas Tirith or attacking enemy makes an additional attack after this one.
When Revealed: Each player deals 1 damage to a hero he controls. Until the end of the round, treat the printed text box of each damaged character as if it were blan
...a great cloud streamed slowly westward from the Black Land, devouring light... -The Return of the King
Forced: At the beginning of the staging step, place 1 resource on this objective. Then, each player must choose: either reveal an encounter card, or assign X damage among characters he controls. X is the number of resources here.
...ships of great draught with many oars, and with black sails bellying in the breeze. -The Return of the King
While Bloodied Courtyard is the active location, it gains: "Forced: After an enemy enters the staging area, deal 1 damage to it."
Travel: Raise each player's threat
At once he saw that up here the fighting has been fiercest. All the court was choked with dead orcs or their severed and scattered heads and limbs. The place stank of death.
-The Return of the King
While Winding Stairs is the active location, each enemy in the staging area gets +10 engagement cost.
Travel: Each player must exhaust a character he con
The stairs were high and steep and winding.
-The Return of the King
Immune to player card effects. The players cannot travel here.
The Black Gate gets +1 Threat for each resource on it.
Forced: At the beginning of the quest phase, place 1 resource here and raise each player's threat by 1.
The great doors of the Black Gate swung back wide. Out of it streamed a great host as swiftly as swirling waters when a sluice is lifted.
-The Return of the King
While Beleaguered Hills is the active location, reduce the total Threat in the staging area by X, where X is the total Threat of each engaged enemy.
Forced: After Beleaguered Hills becomes the active location, each player engages a non-unique enemy in the staging area.
The onslaught of Mordor broke like a wave on the beleaguered hills...
-The Return of the King
When Revealed: Each player must choose: either raise your threat by 1 for each character you control, or discard the highest c
Shadow: Discard a non-objective attachment you control.
When Revealed: Each player assigns X damage among characters he controls, where X is the number of resourc
Shadow: Shadow: Attacking enemy gets +1 Attack for each resource on The Black Gate.
When Revealed: Each player deals 1 damage to a questing character he controls. Until the end of the phase, each damaged character gets -1 Willpower
Shadow: Choose a non-unique enemy in the staging area. Engage it and deal it a shadow card.
Players do not raise their threat at the end of the refresh phase.
Forced: At the end of the round, each player raises his threat by 1 for each non-Fellowship character he controls.
...blacker and darker than the vast shades amid which it stood, the cruel pinnacles and iron crown of the topmost tower of Barad-dûr.
-Return of the King
Immune to player card effects. X is the tens digit of the first player's threat dial.
The players cannot travel here unless there is at least 20 progress on stage 3B.
Travel: Each player makes a Fortitude test. If a player fails this test, raise his threat by 9.
He raised his eyes with difficulty to the dark slopes of Mount Doom towering above him...
-The Return of the King
Mordor Road gets +1 Threat for each controlled by the player who controls the most allies.
Forced: After Mordor Road becomes the active location, each player discards the top card of the encounter deck. Add each enemy discarded this way to the staging area.
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They climbed on to the causeway and trudged along, down the hard cruel road that led to the Dark Tower itself.
-The Return of the King
If a player has failed a Fortitude test this round, Plain of Gorgoroth gets +2 Threat.
Travel: The first player makes a Fortitude test to travel here. If he fails this test, raise each player's threat by 4.
There smokes trailed on the ground and lurked in hollows, and fumes leaked from fissures in the earth.
-The Return of the King
While Brake of Thorns is in the staging area, add (|) to each Fortitude test.
Forced: After Brake of Thorns becomes the active location, each player assigns X damage among characters he controls, where X is the tens digit of his threat dial.
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They had a struggle to get out of the thicket. The thorns and briars were as tough as wire and clinging as claws.
-The Return of the King
While Old Water-course is the active location, it gains: "Response: When Old Water-course is explored, reduce each player's threat by 5."
Travel: Each player must exhaust a hero he con
Clambering a few steps up he found a tiny stream of dark water that came out from the hill-side and filled a little bare pool...
-The Return of the King
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.
When Revealed: Each player must choose: either discard your hand (with at least 3 cards in it), or revea
Shadow: Attacking enemy makes an additional attack after this one.
When Revealed: Each player must choose: either discard a questing character you control, or raise your threat by 1 for each questing c
Shadow: Attacking enemy gets +1 Attack. If this attack destroys a character, reveal the top card of the encounter deck.
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.