When Revealed: Gollum makes an immediate attack against the first player. If Gollum is not in play, search the encounter deck and discard pile for Gollum and put him into play engaged with the first player.

Shadow: If attacking enemy is Gollum he makes an additional attack after this one.

When Revealed: The first player must choose: either exhaust The One Ring and reveal an encounter card, or discard cards from the top of the encounter deck until an enemy is discarded and put it into play engaged with him.

Shadow: Discard a non-objective attachment you control.

Setup: The first player claims The One Ring and attaches it to the Ring-bearer.

Attached hero does not count against the hero limit. The first player gains control of attached hero.

If The One Ring leaves play, the players lose the game.

Add Eye to each Fortitude test.

Forced: At the end of the round, flip The Eye of Sauron, then move it and each Nazgûl enemy in the staging area to The Black Gate Opens staging area. The first player may raise each player's threat by 3 to cancel this effect.

Each enemy in the staging area gets +1 and -10 engagement cost.

Forced: At the end of the round, flip The Eye of Sauron, the move it and each Nazgûl enemy in the staging area to the Mount Doom staging area. The first player may raise each player's threat by 3 to cancel this effect.

Forced: At the beginning of the encounter phase, all copies of Snaga Scouts engage the player with the lowest threat. (The first player chooses in case of a tie.)

While Tarlang's Next is the active location, it gains,"Forced: At the beginning of the encounter phase, the players must either immediately end the encounter phase, or the first player must engaged all enemies in the staging area."

Forced: When Blackroot Graves is explored, return the topmost Undead enemy in the encounter discard pile to play, engaged with the first player.

Shadow: If defending character has 0 deal 2 damage to that character.

When Revealed: Starting with the first player, each player must search the encounter deck and discard pile for an Undead enemy, reveal it, and add it to the staging area. Shuffle the encounter deck.

Midnight. This effect cannot be canceled.

Shadow: Attacking enemy gets +1 Attack (Dusk. +2 Attack instead. Midnight. +3 Attack instead).

When Revealed: The first player must choose: skip the next travel phase, or each player must pass his hand to the player on his left (discard your hand instead if you are the only player in the game).

Midnight. Groping Horror gains surge.

When Revealed: The first player attached Driven by Fear to a hero he controls. Counts as a Condition attachment with the text: "Attached character's is reduced to 0. Treat attacked character's text box as if it was blank (except for Traits.)"

While Long Trailer is in the staging area it gains:"Forced: After the active location leaves play as an explored location, Long Trailer makes an immediate attack against the first player."

"Occasionally the most unfriendly ones may drop a branch, or stick a root out, or grasp at you with a long trailer." –Merry, The Fellowship of the Ring

Immune to player card effects.

The player cannot win the game while Withywindle is in play.

While Withywindle is the active location, the first player reveals 1 additional encounter card during the quest phase.

"The Withywindle valley is said to be the queerest part of the whole wood..." –Merry, The Fellowship of the Ring

Loot. Restricted.

If unattached, the first player claims Sword of Belegost and attaches it to a hero he controls.

Attached hero gets +4

Response: Exhaust Sword of Belegost to cancel a shadow effect just triggered.

Discover 4.

While Flooded Hall is in the staging area, increase the cost to play each ally by 1.

Forced: When resolving the Discover keyword on Flooded Hall, the first player reveals an additional looked at Hazard card for each other player in the game.

Doomed 1.

When Revealed: Add 1 to the total in the staging area for each character controlled by the first player until the end of the phase.

Shadow: Discard 1 random card from your hand. If the discarded card is an event, attacking enemy gets +2 .

When Revealed: If Naurlhûg is in play, it makes an immediate attack against the first player. If Naurlhûg is not in play, place 1 resource on Stalking the Ruins. Then, if there are at least 3 resources on Stalking the Ruins add Naurlhûg to the staging area.

Shadow: Attacking enemy makes an additional attack against you after this one.

Immune to player card effects.

Travel: The first player searches the encounter deck, discard pile and victory display a Great Barrow and adds it to the staging area. Shuffle the encounter deck.

He had passed between them almost before he was aware: and even as he did so darkness seemed to fall round him. –The Fellowship of the Ring

Forced: When a player looks at any number of cards from the Investigation deck, if Taken by Surprise is among the looked at cards, shuffle the encounter discard pile into the encounter deck and discard cards until an enemy is discarded. Put the discarded enemy into play engaged with the first player. Then remove Taken by Surprise from the game.

Forced: When the Prancing Pony is explored, the first player must choose: either look at the top 2 cards of the Investigation deck, or each player draws 2 cards.

...the old inn of Bree, The Prancing Pony, that has been kept by the family of Butterbur from time beyond record.
–The Fellowship of the Ring

Investigate 1.

Forced: When triggering the Investigate keyword on Old Warehouse, the first player must choose: either look at 2 additional card, or reduce each player's threat by 3.

Travel: Reveal the top card of the encounter deck to travel here.

When Revealed: Either raise each player's threat by 2 or Greenway Footpad makes an immediate attack against the first player.

Shadow: Attacking enemy gets +1 (+2 instead if your threat is 35 or higher).

Immune to player card effects.

Lieutenant of Angmar cannot take damage unless there is at least 10 progress on the main quest.

Forced: At the end of the round, Lieutenant of Angmar moves to the staging area with the lowest total and makes an immediate attack against the first player.

Surge.

When Revealed: The enemy in the staging area with the highest engagement cost makes an immediate attack against the first player.

Shadow: Attacking enemy makes an additional attack against you after this one.

When Revealed: The first player chooses a card in his hand. The opposing team looks at the first player's hand and chooses a different card to place faceup under Necromancer's Pass as a guarded objective. While Necromancer's Pass is guarding a card, copies of that card cannot be played. When Necromancer's Pass is explored, return the guarded card to its owner's hand.

When Revealed: The highest enemy in the staging area makes an immediate attack against the first player. If no attack is made this way, Pursued by Shadow gains surge.

Shadow: If attacking enemy is uniquie, it makes an additional attack against you after this one.

Cannot have attachments.

Twilight Hall gets +1 for each character controlled by the first player.

Forced: When Twilight Hall is explored, reveal 1 encounter card per player.

While Hunter's Lookout is in the staging area, it gains:"Forced: At the end of the round, raise each player's threat by 1 for each enemy in the staging area."

Travel: The highest enemy in the staging area makes an immediate attack against the first player.

Doomed 1.

When Revealed: Attach to the first player's threat dial. (Counts as a Condition attachment with the text:"Forced: Raise your threat by an additional point during the refresh phase.")

Response: After the players travel to Old Forest Road the first player discards the top card of his deck. If that card is an ally, he puts it into play.

Travel: Discard the top card of the encounter deck, if that card is an enemy, add it to the staging area.

When Revealed: Ambushing Orcs makes an immediate attack against the first player.

Shadow: Engaged the lowest engagement cost enemy in the staging area and deal it a shadow card.

When Revealed: The first player must choose: either deal 1 damage to each character committed to the quest, or raise each player's threat by 1 and end the quest phase without resolving the quest.

Shadow: Deal 1 damage to the defending character.

Quest Action: Raise each player's threat by 1 to reduce the total of Zigil Mineshaft by 1 until the end of the phase. The first player may trigger this effect.

While Lightless Grotto is in the staging area, non-unique enemies in the staging area cannot take damage.

Travel: The first player chooses an enemy in the staging area and engages it.

Cannot be optionally engaged.

While Elder Nameless Thing is in the staging area, it gains:"Forced: After players have committed characters to the quest, Elder Nameless Thing makes an attack against the first player.

When Revealed: The highest enemy in the staging area makes an attack against the first player. If no attack is made this way, Chance Encounter gains surge.

Shadow: If attacking enemy is unique, it makes an additional attack against you after this one.

Forced: After Nameless Thing enters play, the first player attaches the top card of his deck to it faceup as a guarded attached. Nameless Thing gets +X +X and +X where X is that card's printed cost. When Nameless Thing leaves play, discard that card.

When Revealed: The enemy with the highest engagement cost engages the first player and attacks them. If no attack is made this way, Out of the Mist gains surge.

Shadow: Either raise your threat by 4 or attacking enemy makes an additional attack.

When Revealed: The staging area gets +X until the end of the phase, where X is twice the number of players in the game. If the players quest unsuccessfully this phase, put the Nazgûl of Dol Guldur into play (from any out of play area), engaged with the first player. (Cannot be canceled.)

Surge.

When Revealed: The first player chooses a Clue card attached to a hero and attaches it to a Mordor enemy in play, if able.

Shadow: Damage from this attack must be applied to a hero you control with a Clue card attached, if able.

When Revealed: The first player chooses a hero in any player's discard pile and removes that hero from the game. Then, heal all damage from each Troll enemy in play. If no damage is removed from any Troll enemy as a result of this effect, Time for Supper gains surge.

In the end they decided to mince them fine and boil them. So they got a black pot, and they took out their knives. –The Hobbit

Forced: After the players travel to a location, Tunneling Nameless Thing engages the first player.

If there is no active location, return Tunneling Nameless Thing to the staging area.

When Revealed: The first player makes an escape test counting intead of dealing 2 cards from the encounter deck. If this test is failed, place 1 resource token on Gollum and deal 1 damage to each character in play.

Escape: 3

While Snow-Giant is in the staging area, it attacks the first player during the combat phase, as if it were engaged.

Forced: After Snow-Giant engages you, discard the ally you control with the highest

Ambush

Forced: After Raiding Party engages a player, each player discards the top card of the encounter deck, starting with the first player. Each player who discards an enemy with the ambush keyword must make an engagement check against that enemy.

Travel: The first player must make a locate test to travel here. If this test is failed, return Eastern Mines to the staging area and trigger all "Lost:" effects in play.

Shadow: Defending player must choose and trigger 1 "Lost:" effect in play.

When Revealed: Starting with the first player, each player must choose and trigger a different "Lost:" effect in play.

Shadow: Make a locate test. If this test is failed, return attacking enemy to the staging area after this attack and trigger all "Lost:" effects in play.

Forced: When Primeval Thing enters play, attach cards from the top of the first player's deck to it until the total printed cost of all attached cards is 6 or higher.

X is the printed cost of all attached cards on this card. If there are no cards attached, X is 6.

When Revealed: Murderous Turncoat makes an immediate attack against the first player.

Forced: At the end of the combat phase, place Murderous Turncoat facedown underneath the active location if you are not at stage 3.