When Revealed: Raise each player's threat by X, where X is the active location's
If there is no active location, Darkness in the East gains surge.
Shadow: Attacking enemy gets +1 
(+2 instead if you raised your threat this round).
While Catacombs is in the staging area, enemies in the staging area cannot take damage.
Travel: Each player discards the top card of the encounter deck. If a player discards an enemy this way, he puts it into play engaged with him.
X is 1 more than the number of quest stages in the victory display.
Forced: When Hall of Horrors leaves play, each player deals X damage to a character he controls.
...they had worshipped Sauron in the Dark Years.
–The Return of the King
While Narrow Opening is the active location, each player cannot play more than 1 card each round.
Forced: When Narrow Opening leaves play, each player discards 1 random card from his hand.
"I got stuck in the door, which was only open a crack, and I lost lots of buttons..."
–Bilbo, The Hobbit
It's nearly impossible to find your way through this maze of dark tunnels.
When Revealed: Each player places the top 10 cards of his deck facedown under his threat dial (without looking at them). When this stage is defeated, each player shuffles all cards under his threat dial back into his deck.
Forced: After a player raises his threat by any amount, he discards the top card from under his threat dial.
Immune to player card effects.
The player cannot travel here.
Each player's threat elimination level is reduced by 5.
...wall upon wall, battlement upon battlement, black, immeasurably strong, mountain of iron, gate of steel, tower of adamant, he saw it: Barad–d–r, Fortress of Sauron. All hope left him.
–The Fellowship of the Ring
When Revealed: Each player with more than 5 cards in his hand discards cards from his hand until he has only 5.
Forced: After a player draws any number of cards, he raises his threat by 1.
"Nothing can hide from them."
–Gollum, The Two Towers
Each player's threat cannot be reduced by more than 1 each round by player card effects.
Darkness lay there under the Sun. Fire glowed amid the smoke. Mount Doom was burning, and a great reek rising.
–The Fellowship of the Ring
Immune to player card effects.
X is 1 more than the number of locations controlled by the players.
The players cannot travel here unless stage 2B has at least 12 progress on it.
Travel: Thane Ulchor attacks each player in turn order.
When Revealed: Each player must choose: either return a location you control to the staging area, or discard cards from the top of the encounter deck until an enemy is discarded and put it into play engaged with you.
Shadow: Attacking enemy makes an additional attack against you after this one.
When Revealed: Each player assigns X damage among characters he controls, where X is 1 more than the number of locations he controls.
Shadow: Assign X damage among characters you control, where X is 1 more than the number of locations you control.
When Revealed: Thane Ulchor makes an immediate attack against each player that controls a location (in turn order).
Shadow: Attacking enemy gets +1 for each location you control.
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Immune to player card effects.Indestructible.
X is 1 more than the number of resources on the main quest.
City Guard cannot leave the staging area but is considered to be engaged with each player whose threat is equal to or higher than its engagement cost.
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When Revealed: Raise each player's threat by 3.
Shadow: Attacking enemy gets +1 If this attack destroys a character, raise each player's threat by 1.
While The King's Lawn is in the staging area, each player must raise his threat by 1 additional point during the refresh phase.
Travel: Place 1 resource on the main quest.
While Guarded Archway is in the staging area, each player engaged with City Guard cannot reduce his threat.
Travel: City Guard makes an attack against the first player.
X is 1 more than the number of resources on the main quest.
Travel: Raise each player's threat by X.
Shadow: Return attacking enemy to the staging area after this attack.
When Revealed: Each player must choose: either City Guard makes an attack against you, or raise your threat by X, where X is 1 more than the number of allies you control.
Shadow: Attacking enemy gets +1 If this attack destroys a character, excess damage must be assigned among characters you control.
When Revealed: Place 1 resource on the main quest. Then, either progress cannot be placedon the current quest this phase, or raise each player's threat by X, where X is 1 more than the number of resources on the main quest.
Shadow: Attacking enemy gets +1 for each resource on the main quest.
Too many Easterlings have noted your presence in their city. Now you must throw them off your trail if you are to continue your pursuit of Ulchor unnoticed.
Each enemy in the staging area gets -10 engagement cost.
Response: After Cat and Mouse is defeated, each player may discard a non-unique enemy engaged with him.
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Immune to player card effects. Cannot leave the staging area.
While The Challengers is at the same stage as The Wainriders, Wainrider Champion is considered to be engaged with each player.
Crowded Track gets +1 for each character controlled by the first player.
Forced: After Crowded Track becomes the active location, each player searches the encounter deck and discard pile for an enemy and adds it to the staging area. Shuffle the encounter deck.
While Ravine Ledge is in the staging area, each racing test requires 1 additional matching result.
Travel: The first player makes a racing test. To pass requires 1 TURN result. If the players pass the test, each player draws 1 card. If the players faill the test, each player discards 1 random card from his hand.
As you draw closer to Mordor, the darkness around you seeps into your thought, and despair begins to take hold...
Forced: After a player players a card, he discards the top card of his deck.
Response: When this stage is defeated, each player shuffles the top 3 cards of his discard pile into his deck.
When Revealed: Each player places the top 3 cards of his deck facedown under Hideous Deeps.
Forced: When Hideous Deeps is explored as the active location, shuffle each facedown card under it into its owner's deck.
When Revealed: Each player discards the top card of his deck. Until the end of the phase, add the total cost of each card discarded this way to the in the staging area.
Shadow: Discard an attachment you control. If this attack destroys a character, discard another attachment you control.
When Revealed: Each player discard 1 card from the top of his deck for each character he controls.
Shadow: Either discard the top 2 cards of your deck, or return attacking enemy to the staging area after this attack.
When Revealed: Each player assigns X damage among character he controls, where X is 1 more than the number of quest cards in play. Exhaust each character damaged by this effect.
Shadow: Attacking enemy makes an additional attack against you after this one.
While Working Fields is in the staging area, characters cannot be healed.
Travel: Each player deals 1 damage to a character he controls.
Neither he nor Frodo knew anything of the great slave–worked fields away south in this wide realm...
–The Return of the King
When Revealed: Each player deals 1 damage to a character he controls. Then, each player must choose: either deal 1 damage to each damaged character you control, or raise your threat by 1 for each damaged character you control.
Shadow: Attacking enemy gets +2 until the end of the phase.
While Fortress Walls is in the staging area, the cost to play each ally is increased by 1.
Travel: Each player places 1 card from his hand under a Castle side quest.
While Guard Tower is in the staging area, players cannot draw cards or gain resources from player card effects.
Travel: Each player exhausts a character he controls.
X is 1 more than the number of Castle side quests in the victory display.
Travel: Each player assigns X damage characters he controls.
...nothing could waft away the glooms and the sad mists that clung about...
–The Return of the King
The dungeons of Dol Rhugar are full of prisoners with no hope of escape.
No more than 4 progress can be placed on the current quest each round.
Response: When this stage is defeated, the first player chooses a Castle side quest. Each player looks at his facedown cards under that quest and adds 1 to his hand.
While Troll Camp is in the staging area, Troll enemies get +1 for each player in the game.
While Troll Camp is in play, Bilbo Baggins gains:"Action: Exhaust Bilbo Baggins and spend 1
resource to remove 1 Sack card from a character. Bilbo Baggins may trigger this effect even with a Sack card attached to him."
Forced: After placing 1 or more progress tokens on Dreary Hills, each player must discard 1 card at random from his hand.
Response: After Dreary Hills leaves play as an explored location, Bilbo Baggins gains 1 resource.
Forced: After placing 1 or more progress tokens on Lone-Lands, each player removes 1 resource from one of his hero's resource pools, if able.
Response: After Lone-Lands leaves play as an explored location, Bilbo Baggins gains 1 resource.
When Revealed: Each player must choose one: increase his threat by 4, or reveal an additional encounter card from the encounter deck and add it to the staging area.
Shadow: The defending player raises his threat by 2.
When Revealed: Starting with the first player, each player must choose 1 Goblin enemy from the discard pile and add it to the staging area.
Shadow: Defending player deals damage among characters he controls equal to the number of Goblin enemies engaged with him.
Attach to Bilbo Baggins.
Action: When answering a riddle, spend 1 resource to discard an additional player card from the top of your deck.
Action: Exhaust Bilbo’s Magic Ring and raise each player's threat by 2 to add 1 resource to Bilbo Baggins' resource pool.
When Revealed: Starting with the first player, each player must search the encounter deck and encounter discard pile for 1 Creature enemy and put it into play engaged with him. Then, shuffle the encounter deck.
Riddle: The first player names a card type and cost, shuffles his deck, then discards the top 3 cards. For each of those cards that matches both items, place 1 progress token on stage 2.
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Forced: At the end of each round, each player must give a hero he controls 1 poison.
...hairy legs waving, nippers an dspinners snapping, eyes popping, full of froth and rage. –The Hobbit
When Revealed: Each player discards 2 random cards from hand. Until the end of the phase, each Dragon enemy in play gets +1 for each event discarded by this effect.
Burgle: The first player shuffles his deck and reveals the top card. He may discard 1 card from his hand that matches the revealed card's sphere and cost.
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When Revealed: Each player must deal 2 damage to a character he controls.
Shadow: Deal 1 damage to defending character for each quest stage in play with no progress on it.
When Revealed: Each player must search the encounter deck and discard pile for a Goblin enemy and put it into play, engaged with him. Then, shuffle the encounter deck. (This effect cannot be canceled.)
Shadow: Attacking enemy gets +1 for each Goblin enemy engaged with you.
Response: After Bag End leaves play, each player draws 1 card for each Hobbit hero he controls.
...it was popularly believed, whatever the old folk might say, that the Hill at Bag End was full of tunnels stuffed with treasure. –The Fellowship of the Ring
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Players cannot optionally engage Bill Ferny.
Forced: At the beginning of the staging step, either shuffle 1 out of play Ringwraith into the encounter deck or each player raises their threat by 1 for each non-
hero he committed to the quest.