While Rauros Falls is the active location, all characters must commit to the current quest during the quest phase.

Shadow: After this attack resolves, return attacking enemy to the staging area.

While The Outer Ridge is the active location, each location in the staging area gets +1 .

Shadow: After this attack resolves, return attacking enemy to the staging area.

While The Heart of the Marshes is the active location, all cards dealt from the encounter deck for escape tests get +1 Escape. (Cards receive this bonus even if they do not have a printed escape value.)

Escape: 1

While The Spiders’ Ring is the active location, the player guarding Gollum cannot change.

Shadow: If this attack is undefended, return any current active location to the staging area. The Spiders’ Ring becomes the active location.

While Dry Watercourse is the active location, all treachery card effects that target the player guarding Gollum also target each other player.

While Bridge of Khazad-dûm is the active location, players cannot play cards.

While Turbulent Waters is the active location, players cannot optionally engage enemies.

While Caradhras is the active location, questing characters get -1 .

Players cannot travel to Caradhras except by quest card effects.

While Celebdil is the active location, remove 2 progress tokens from it at the end of each round.

While Goblin Gate is the active location, the first enemy revealed from the encounter deck each round gains ambush. If that enemy engages a player, it makes an immediate attack (deal and resolve a shadow card).

A crack had opened at the back of the cave, and was already a wide passage.
–The Hobbit

While Barren Hills is the active location, ignore ambush.

Shadow: Return attacking enemy to the staging area after it attacks.

Doomed 1.

While Mithril Lode is the active location, it gains:

Refresh Action: Exhaust a character you control to place X progress tokens on the current quest card, bypassing any active location. X is the exhausted character's . (Limit once per round.)

While Dark Pit is the active location it gains:

Refresh Action: Exhaust X characters (maximum 3) you control to discard the top X cards of your deck. If all discarded cards have a higher combined printed cost than the remaining hit points of Durin's Bane, discard Durin's Bane from play.

While Second Hall is the active location, it gains:

Forced: After a character leaves play, reveal 1 card from the encounter deck and add it to the staging area.

Down the centre stalked a double line of towering pillars. They were carved like boles of mighty trees whose boughs upheld the roof with a branching tracery of stone.
–The Fellowship of the Ring

While Pelargir Docks is the active location, enemies get +1 and +1

...they saw the River like a ribbon laid down to Pelargir, and beyond that was a light on the hem of the sky that spoke of the Sea. –The Return of the King

While Ithilien Road is the active location, the engagement cost of each enemy in the staging area is 0.

Shadow: Return attacking enemy to the staging area after it attacks.

While West Quarter is the active location, the current quest gains Siege.

Shadow: If this attack destroys a character, that character's controller must return a location he controls with the highest to the staging area.

While East Quarter is the active location, the current quest gains Battle.

Shadow: If this attack destroys a character, that character's controller must return a location he controls with the highest to the staging area.

Immune to player card effects.

While The Islet is the active location, each Dunland enemy in play gets +1 .

There were three lines of flat stepping–stones across the stream, and between them fords for horses, that went from either brink to a bare eyot in the midst. –The Two Towers

While Methedras is the active location, each location in the staging area gets +1

Forced: When Methedras leaves play as an explored location, each player Searches 3.

Beyond there glimmered far away, as if floating on a grey cloud, the white head of tall Methedras, the last peak of the Misty Mountains. –The Two Towers

While Plains of Enedwaith is the active location, players do not draw a card during the resource phase.

Shadow: Attacking enemy gets +1 (+3 instead if undefended).

While Hithaeglir Stream is the active location, players draw 2 cards during the resource phase instead of 1.

Shadow: Attacking enemy gets +1 Attack. Deal it an additional shadow card.

Progress cannot be placed on Streets of Tharbad while it is in the staging area.

While Streets of Tharbad is the active location, enemies get -20 engagement cost.

As soon as his back was turned, a dark figure climbed quickly in over the gate and melted into the shadows of the village street. –The Fellowship of the Ring

Surge.

While Tharbad Hideout is the active location, time counters cannot be removed from the current quest.

Forced: At the beginning of the quest phase, place 1 progress on Tharbad Hideout.

While Ruins of the Second Age is in the staging area, City locations get +1 .

While Ruins of the Second Age is the active location, deal engaged enemies 1 additional shadow card at the beginning of the combat phase.

...as far as Tharbad, where the old North Road crossed the river by a ruined town. –The Fellowship of the Ring

While Decrepit Rooftops is the active location, enemies get +1 and do not make engagement checks.

Forced: After traveling to Decrepit Rooftops, return all engaged enemies to the staging area.

Immune to player card effects.

While Amon Forn is the active location, it gains:

Forced: After an Orc enemy is added to the staging area, it makes an immediate attack against the first player.

The players cannot win while Amon Forn is in play.

While Exposed Ridge is the active location, it gains:

Forced: At the end of the refresh phase, each player deals 1 damage to a character he controls.

Shadow: Attacking enemy gets +1 for each damaged character the defending player controls.

While Sheltered Valley is the active location, it gains:

Response: When Sheltered Valley is explored, heal all damage from 1 character.

Travel: Remove 1 resource token from the

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While Concealed Orc-camp is the active location is gains:

Response: When Concealed Orc-camp is explored, place 1 resource token on the Mission objective.

Travel: The first player searches the encounter deck and discard pile for an Orc enemy and put it into play engaged with him. Shuffle the encounter deck.

While Norbury Tombs is the active location, it gains:

Respnse: When Norbury Tombs is explored, each player shuffles the top 5 cards of his discard pile into his deck.

Travel: Return the topmost enemy in the encounter discard pile to the staging area.

While Haunted Keep is the active location, the first Undead enemy revealed each round gains Surge.

Shadow: Defending player discards the top card of his deck. Attacking enemy gets +X where X is the discarded card's printed cost.

While Deadmen’s Gate is the active location, it gains:

Forced: After a player triggers an 'Action' or 'Response' effect, he must discard the top card of his deck.

Shadow: Discard an attachment you control.

While Troll-fells is the active location, Weather cards gain doomed 1.

When Revealed: If Troll-fells is not revealed guarding a safe location, search the encounter deck and discard pile for a location with the safe keyword and attach it to Troll-fells, guarded. Shuffle the encounter deck.

While Accursed Battlefield is the active location, each quest card in play gains the battle keyword.

Shadow: Attacking enemy gets +1 (+3 instead if the defending player's threat is higher than the attacking enemy's engagement cost).

While Mountains of Angmar is the active location, each shadow card with no shadow effect gains: "Shadow: Raise defending player's threat by 2."

Shadow: Raise defending player's threat by 2.

While Fortress Walls is the active location, for each resource spent by a player, raise that player's threat by 1.

Shadow: If your threat is 40 or higher, attacking enemy makes an additional attack against you after this one.

While Fog Bank is the active location, Ship enemies do not make engagement checks, cannot attack, and cannot be attacked.

Shadow: If your heading is at the worst setting
(), attacking enemy makes an additional attack after this one.

While Calm Waters is the active location, look at 2 additional cards from the top of the encounter deck during each Sailing test.

Shadow: Attacking enemy gets +1 (+3 instead if attacking enemy is a Ship Enemy).

While Cargo Hold is the active location, each enemy gets +1

Shadow: Until the end of the phase, attacking enemy gets +2

While Quarter Deck is the active location, deal each enemy an additional shadow card at the beginning of the combat phase.

Shadow: Discard an attachment you control.

X is the number of players in the game.

Immune to player card effects. Cannot be optionally engaged.

Temple Guardian gets -50 engagement cost while Cursed Temple is the active location.

While Undersea Grotto is the active location, reduce the cost of the first ally played by the players each round by 1.

Response: After you travel to Undersea Grotto you may flip it to its Underwater side.