When Revealed: Attach Death and Calamity to the current quest. Then, the first player reanimates the top X cards of his deck, where X is the number of copies of Death and Calamity in play.
Shadow: Attacking enemy gets +X where X is the number of Sorcery cards in play.
When Revealed: The first player discards the bottom card of his deck. Then, he discards each card in his hand with a printed cost higher than that of the discarded card.
Shadow: Discard the bottom card of the defending player's deck. If that card's printed cost is 2 or less, attacking enemy gets +2 .
Captain Sahír engages the first player.
For each point of damage Captain Sahír would take, discard 1 resource from him and cancel that damage.
Forced: After Captain Sahír attacks, place 2 resource tokens on him (4 instead if his attack destroyed a character).
Surge. Grapple ( highest printed quest points ).
Forced: After Crushing Arm is detached from a location, it makes an immediate attack against the first player.
Captain Sahír engages the first player.
For each point of damage Captain Sahír would take, discard 1 resource from him and cancel that damage.
For every 5 resources on Captain Sahír, he makes an additional attack against the engaged player each combat phase.
Response: After the player travel here, choose a non-unique enemy engaged with a player and place it faceup under this location. While an enemy is under this location, that enemy is considered to be out of play.
Forced: After Narrow Alleyway leaves play, put each enemy under it into play, engaged with the first player.
While Haradrim Estate is in the staging area, progress cannot be placed here.
Travel: Search the encounter deck and discard pile for a Harad enemy and put it into play engaged with the first player. Then, place 1 progress on the main quest, bypassing the active location. Shuffle the encounter deck.
Response: After the players travel to Village Hut, the first player discards the top card of his deck. If that card is an ally, he puts it into play under his control, exhausted.
Travel: Discard the top card of the encounter deck. If that card is an enemy, add it to the staging area.
When Revealed: The first player discards cards from the top of the encounter deck until an enemy is discarded, and puts that enemy into play engaged with him.
Shadow: Attacking enemy gets +1 (+2 instead if it was engaged this round).
Players cannot declare defenders against Sand Viper.
Forced: After the players travel to a location, Sand Viper engages the first player.
To some suddenly it seemed that they saw a snake coiling itself to strike.
–The Two Towers
When Revealed: Choose a Wild M–mak in the staging area to attack the first player. If no attacks are made this way, search the encounter deck and discard pile for a Mûmak Trail and add it to the staging area. Shuffle the encounter deck.
On the great beast thundered, blundering in blind wrath through pool and thicket. –The Two Towers
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.
Cannot have attachments. Cannot take damage.
Brood Mother engages the first player.
Forced: At the end of the round, search the encounter deck and discard pile for a Spider Broodling and add it to the staging area, if able. Shuffle the encounter deck.
X is the number of characters controlled by the first player.
Travel: Reveal the top card of the encounter deck to travel here.
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.
While The Serpent's Redoubt is in the staging area, it gains:"Forced: After a player plays an ally from his hand, either remove 1 progress from the main quest, or exhaust that ally."
Travel: The first player searches the encounter deck and discard pile for an enemy and puts it into play engaged with him. Shuffle the encounter deck.
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.
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: The first player attaches an ally he controls to an unattached enemy or location in the staging area. If he cannot, Taken Prisoner gains doomed 2.
Shadow: Attacking enemy gets +1 If this attack destroys an ally, reveal the top card of the encounter deck.
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.
When Revealed: Either place a random enemy from the set aside Mordor Orcs set into the encounter discard pile, or Uruk Prowler makes an immediate attack against the first player.
Shadow: Discard a random card from your hand.
Immune to player card effects.
The Old Ford gets +5 quest points for each enemy in play.
Forced: After The Old Ford becomes the active location, each enemy in the staging area makes an immediate attack against the first player.
Forced: When Wooded Riverbank is explored, put the top card of the Evil Creatures deck into play engaged with the first player.
Shadow: Deal 1 damage to the defending character.
X is the number of characters controlled by the player with the most characters.
Quest Action: Exhaust a character to reduce Hills of Wilderland by 1 until the end of the phase. Only the first player can trigger this effect.
Immune to player card effects.
Fire-drake cannot take damage.
Response: After Dragon Hoard becomes the active location, the first player chooses a player to attach an Artifact attachment from his hand to Dragon Hoard. That attachment gains the guarded (location) keyword. If that attachment has the printed guarded keyword, do not resolve it when the attachment enters play.
When Revealed: The highest enemy in the staging area makes an immediate attack against the first player. If no attack is made this way, Denizen of the Deep gains surge.
Shadow: Attacking enemy makes an additional attack against you after this one.
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.
While Durin's Key is free of encounters, the first player attached it to a hero he controls.
Action: Exhaust Durin's Key to give each location -1 until the end of the phase.
Forced: At the beginning of the quest phase, the player who controls Durin's Key looks at the top 3 cards of the encounter deck, chooses 1 to reveal, and discards the rest.
Surge. Cannot be optionally engaged.
Forced: When the encounter phase begins, Hunting Eagle engages the first player.
Shadow: Attacking enemy gets +1 (+2 instead if attacking enemy has the Creature trait).
When Revealed: The first player must choose: either Wilderland Bear makes an immediate attack against him, or each player discards 1 random card from his hand.
While Deep Ravine is in the staging area, no more than 1 progress can be placed on locations in the staging area each round.
Travel: The first player must either exhaust Urdug, or raise each player's threat by 2 to travel here.
Response: After the players travel to Slopes of Ered Mithrin, the first player may ready a character he controls.
Shadow: If the first player controls Urdug, exhaust him.
When Revealed: The first player loses control of Urdug, then attach Urdug to a location in the staging area as a guarded objective. If he cannot, add 5 to the total in the staging area until the end of the phase. In either case, remove Sneaking Off from the game.
When Revealed: Starting with the first player, each player chooses an enemy in the staging area and engages it. Then, if any player did not engage an enemy this way, discard cards from the encounter deck until a Creature enemy is discarded and add it to the staging area.
Dagnir's assault is relentless and the people of Hrogar's Hill need time to regroup. Someone mst draw the Dragon's attention away from the town.
Shadow cards dealt to Dagnir are immune to player card effects and their effects cannot be canceled.
Forced: After Draw Her Fire becomes the current quest, Dagnir makes an immediate attack against the first player.
When Revealed: The first player must either deal 2 damage to a hero he controls, or deal 3 damage to Hrogar's Hill.
Shadow: Attacking enemy gets +1 (+2 instead if Hrogar's Hill has at least 25 damage on it).
While Town Gate is in the staging area, it gains:"Forced: At the end of the quest phase, place 1 resource here. Then, if there are 3 resources here, discard Town Gate and deal 4 damage to Hrogar's Hill."
Travel: Dagnir makes an immediate attack against the first player.
While Wooden Palisade is the active location, Dagnir gets -2
Travel: The first player readies a hero he controls.
"Within there rise the roofs of houses; and in the midst, set upon a green terrace, there stands aloft a great hall of Men."
–Legolas, The Two Towers
When Revealed: Dagnir makes an immediate attack against the first player. Undefended damage from this attack must be dealt to Hrogar's Hill.
Shadow: Attacking enemy makes an additional attack against you after this one.
If unattached, the first player claims Old Lantern and attaches it to a hero he controls.
Action: Exhaust Old Lantern to choose a player to look at the top X cards of his deck, where X is the Discover value of the active location. He adds one of those cards to his hand and places the rest on the bottom of his deck.
If unattached, the first player claims Scatha's Teeth and attached it to a hero he controls.
Action: Exhaust Scatha's Teeth and attached hero to choose a player. That player reduces his threat by 2.
X is the tens digit of the first player's threat.
Forced: When Crypt Stalker attacks, raise the defending player's threat by 1.
Shadow: Either raise your threat by 2, or return attacking enemy to the staging area.
X is the tens digit of the first player's threat.
Forced: After resolving the Discover keyword on Hidden Staircase, reduce each player's threat by X is no Hazard cards were revealed by it.
While Dwarven Watchtower is the active location, each hero gets +1
Response: After Dwarven Watchtower is explored, the first player chooses: either place 1 resource on The Heroes' Defense, or remove 1 progress from The Goblins' Assault.
When Revealed: Urdug makes an immediate attack against the first player. If this attack destroys a character, place 1 progress on The Goblins' Assault.
Shadow: Attacking enemy gets +1 If this attack destroys a character, place 1 progress on The Goblins' Assault.
While River Running is in the staging area, enemies cannot be optionally engaged.
Travel: The first player engages the highest engagement cost enemy in the staging area.
...below them were trees that looked like oaks and elms, and wide grass lands, and a river running through it all.
–The Hobbit
The Easterlings are fearless warriors, but a stern defense may dissuade them.
When Revealed: After an Easterling enemy enters play, attach the top Easterling treachery in the discard pile to that enemy.
Forced: After Warriors of the East becomes the current quest, the highest Easterling enemy in the staging area attacks the first player.