Travel: Each player must assign damage among characters he controls equal to the amount of damage on Elven Caravel.
Forced: When Elven Caravel is placed underneath The Havens Burn, deal 1 damage to each character in play.
When Revealed: Either remove all progress from the current quest and raise each player's threat by 4, or shift your heading-off course.
Shadow: If this attack destroys a character, shift your heading off-course.
When Revealed: Each player reveals the top card of the Corsair deck and puts it into play, engaged with him.
Shadow: Attacking enemy gets +1 
(+2 instead if you control an exhausted Ship objective).
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.
When Revealed: Each player contributing at least 8 
to the quest must discard a questing character. If your heading is at the worst setting (
), this effect cannot be canceled.
Shadow: Attacking enemy gets +X , where X is the Stormcaller's current quest stage.
While Weather Deck is in the staging area, each other Deck location in play gains:
Travel: Each player must exhaust a character he controls to travel here.
Shadow: Exhaust a character you control.
When Revealed: The Thing in the Depths attacks each player in turn order from the staging area (deal and resolve a shadow card for each attack).
Shadow: After this attack, The Thing in the Depths makes an attack against the defending player (deal a shadow card for this attack).
While Jungle Path is the active location, the locations immediately above and below it are not considered to be in the staging area.
Forced: When Jungle Path is flipped over while active, each player must exhaust a character with at least 2
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.
When Revealed: Each player must choose: raise his threat by the number of his characters commited to the quest, or deal 1 damage to each of his characters committed to the quest.
Shadow: If this attack destroys a character, raise your threat by the attacking enemy's
When Revealed: Each player must randomly discard cards from his hand until he has no more than 3 cards in his hand. If no cards were discarded by this effect, Dwindling Supplies gains doomed 2.
Shadow: Defending characters gets -2
for this attack.
Shrine to Morgoth cannot have attachments and cannot enter the staging area.
Forced: If Shrine to Morgoth is the active location at the end of the quest phase, raise each player's threat by 5.
When Shrine to Morgoth is placed in the victory display, the players have escaped the flooded grotto and win the game.
Response: After you travel to Cursed Caverns, you may flip it to its Underwater side.
Response: After the players explore Cursed Caverns as the active location, each player may raise his threat by 2 to draw the bottom card of his deck.
While Twisting Hollow is the active location, characters cannot ready from card effects.
Forced: If Twisting Hollow is the active location at the end of the quest phase, each player must discard 1 character. Then, you may flip Twisting Hollow to its Grotto side.
While Drowned Cave is the active location, Undead enemies cannot be engaged (return any engaged enemies to the staging area).
Forced: If Drowned Cave is the active location at the end of the quest phase, each player must discard the top 10 cards of his deck. Then, you may return Drowned Cave to the staging area.
When Revealed: Each player chooses a card type and discards each card in his hand that is not of the chosen type. If no cards are discarded by this effect, Into the Abyss gains surge.
Shadow: If the active location is Underwater search the encounter deck and discard pile for a Creature enemy, and add it to the staging area.
When Revealed: Each player must remove a character from the quest. If the active location is Underwater deal 2 damage to each character removed from the quest by this effect.
Shadow: Discard an attachment you control.
When Revealed: Each player returns an enemy engaged with him to the staging area. Until the end of the round, enemies cannot be optionally engaged. If there are no enemies in the staging area, search the encounter deck and discard pile for an enemy and add it to the staging area.
When Revealed: Add 1 resource to each engaged Raider enemy. Then, each player assigns damage among characters he controls equal to the number of resource tokens on Raider enemies engaged with him. If no damage is assigned by this effect, Fury and Malice gains surge.
When Revealed: Each player assigns X damage among characters he controls, where X is the tens digit of the temperature.
Shadow: Attacking enemy gets +X where X is the tens digit of the temperature.
X is the stage number of the main quest.
Travel: Each player spends 1 resource to travel here.
Shadow: If the defending character is an objective-hero, ready it and cancel all damage from this attack.
When Revealed: Each player must choose: either discard the highest cost ally you control, or reveal an encounter card.
Shadow: Attacking enemy gets +1 If this attack destroys a character, reveal the top card of the encounter deck.
Alone in a hostile land, cut off from help, you struggle to find your bearings...
Each player cannot have more than 5 cards in his hand. (If you have more than 5, immediately choose and discard cards from hand until you have only 5.)
Response: When this stage is defeated, each player draws a card.
When Revealed: Each player must choose: either raise your threat by 1 for each character you control, or discard a character you control.
Shadow: Attacking enemy gets +1 If this attack destroys a character, raise each player's threat by 1.
When Revealed: Each player exhausts a character he controls. Until the end of the combat phase, exhausted characters cannot ready.
Shadow: Until the end of the round, defending character cannot ready.
Your companions grow weary from thirst. They need water to drink.
Characters cannot be readied by player card effects.
Response: When this stage is defeated, each player readies 1 hero he controls.
While Desert Oasis is the active location, it gains:"Response: When Desert Oasis is explored, heal 4 damage from among characters in play."
Forced: After Desert Oasis becomes the active location, each player exhausts a character he controls.
When Revealed: Each player either discards his hand, or assigns X damage among characters he controls. X is the number of cards in his hand.
Shadow: Either discard the highest cost attachment you control, or assign X damage among characters you control where X is the number of attachments you control.
When Revealed: Each player exhausts a character he controls and deals 1 damage to that character.
Shadow: Exhaust a character you control.
While Mumak Trail is the active location, it gains:"Response: When Mumak Trail leaves play as an explored location, search the encounter deck and discard pile for a Wild Mumak and add it to the staging area. Shuffle the encounter deck."
Travel: Raise each player's threat by 1 to travel here.
When Revealed: Each player discards the top 5 cards of his deck. Each player discards each card he controls that shares a title with any of the 5 cards he just discarded.
Shadow: Attacking enemy gets +1 If this attack destroys a character, return attacking enemy to the staging area.
When Revealed: Each player discards a random card from his hand and assigns X damage among characters he controls. X is the discarded card's cost.
Shadow: Discard a random card from your hand and assign X damage among characters you control. X is the discarded card's cost.
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
X is the stage number of the main quest.
Forced: After Blistering Erg becomes the active location, each player assigns X damage among characters he controls.
It seemed a long way, and he grew hot and very hungry...
–The Return of the King
Forced: At the end of the quest phase, place 1 progress here. Then, either return the topmost location in the encounter discard pile to the staging area, or raise each player's threat by 1 for each resource here.
Progress cannot be placed on the main quest.
While Summons from Mordor is attached to an encounter card, each player's threat cannot be reduced.
Action: Exhaust Summons from Mordor and raise your threat by 1 to add 1 resource to attached hero's pool.
While Southron Camp is in the staging area, it gains:"Forced: At the end of the round, remove all progress from each location in play."
Travel: Raise each player's threat by 1 to travel here.
When Revealed: The first player must choose: either raise each player's threat by 3, or progress cannot be placed on quest cards until the end of the round.
Shadow: Attacking enemy gets +1 If this attack destroys a character, remove all progress from the main quest.
While Gate of Iron is in the staging area, progress cannot be placed on locations in the staging area.
Travel: Discard the top card of the encounter deck. Then, the first player must discard a card from his hand with cost greater than the discarded card's or raise each player's threat by 3.
While Mines of Cirith Gurat is in the staging area, it gains:"Forced: When a player card would reduce a player's threat by any amount, reduce that amount to 1."
Travel: Each player discards the top 3 cards of his deck and raises his threat by 1 for each ally he discards this way.
When Revealed: The first player discards cards from the top of his deck until he discards an ally. Attach that ally to Torture Room and discard each other copy of that ally from play.
While Torture Room is guarding an objective, it gains:"Forced: At the end of the round, raise each player's threat by 1."
When Revealed: Each player raises his threat by 1 for each guarded objective he owns. If any player does not own a guarded objective, Tormented by Orcs gains surge.
Shadow: Until the end of the phase, attacking enemy gets +1 (+2 instead if it is guarding an objective).
Orcs spring from a secret passage and pull your friends inside!
When Revealed: Each player loses control of an ally he controls and attaches it to this stage. If no allies are attached to this stage, discard it and reveal an additional encounter card.
Forced: When this stage is defeated, each player reduces his threat by X, where X is the cost of the ally he controls that was attached to this stage.
While Foothills of Mordor is in the staging area, 'when revealed' effects cannot be canceled.
Forced: After Foothills of Mordor becomes the active location, raise each player's threat by 2.
...there lay dark thickets, and a tumbled land of rocky ghylls and crags, behind which the long grim slopes of the Ephel Dúath clambered up.
–The Return of the King
When Revealed: Raise each player's threat by X, where X is the printed quest points of the active location. If there is no active location, Mountains of Shadow gains surge.
Shadow: Attacking enemy gets +1 If this attack destroys a character, raise your threat by 2.
The path through the hills has led too far up, and now you walk along exposed heights where there's nowhere to hide. You need to find a way down.
Each player's threat cannot be reduced.
Response: When Find a Way Down is defeated, each player reduces his threat by 3.
When Revealed: Each player assigns X damage among characters he controls, where X is the total of the active location. If X is less than 3, Treacherous Crossing gains surge.
Shadow: Attacking enemy gets +1 (+2 instead if the defending character is damaged).
When Revealed: Each player must choose: either raise your threat by 1 for each ally you control, or deal 1 damage to each ally you control.
Shadow: Raise your threat by 1 for each enemy engaged with you.