When Revealed: Return each engaged Nazgûl enemy to the staging area. If no enemies were returned to the staging area by this effect, Rode Like a Gale gains surge.
Shadow: Return attacking enemy to the staging area after this attack.
When Revealed: The first player must either exhaust The One Ring or raise his threat 3.
Shadow: Attacking enemy gets +1 
(+2 instead if The One Ring is exhausted).
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The first player gains control of Gildor Inglorion.
Forced: At the end of the round, discard Gildor Inglorion. The first player may spend 1
resource to cancel this effect.
"We think you had best come now with us."
–The Fellowship of the Ring
Setup: Add Gandalf's Delay to the staging area.
Each player draws 1 less card in his starting hand.
The next day Frodo became really anxious, and kept a constant look–out for Gandalf. Thursday, his birthday morning, dawned as fair and clear as it had long ago for Bilbo's great party. Still Gandalf did not appear.
–The Fellowship of the Ring
When Revealed: At the end of the phase, each enemy in the staging area engages the first player. If the One Ring is exhausted, this effect cannot be canceled.
"Also," he added, and his voice sank to a whisper, "the Ring draws them" –The Fellowship of the Ring
When Revealed: Attach to the Ring-bearer. (Counts as a Condition attachment with the text:"Forced: At the beginning of each quest phase, either exhaust The One Ring or reveal and additional encounter card this phase.")
Once more the desire to slip on the Ring came over Frodo... –The Fellowship of the Ring
When Revealed: The first player must either exhaust the Ring-bearer or reveal and additional encounter card
Shadow: Defending player raises his threat by 3.
When Revealed: The first player must deal X damage divided among heroes he controls where X is the number of players in the game.
Shadow: Deal 1 damage to defending character.
When Revealed: The first player must exhaust The One Ring. If The One Ring is already exhausted, the first player must discard 2 cards at random from his hand.
Shadow: Defending player discards 1 card at random from his hand.
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.
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Indestructible. Immune to player card effects.
Cannot leave the staging area but is considered to be engaged with each player.
Forced: After placing the 6th damage here, the first player takes control of the Ring-bearer, exhausted with 1 damage on it.
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Cannot have attachments.
Forced: After Great Warg Chief enages you, discard cards from the encounter deck until a Warg enemy is discarded. Put that enemy into play engaged with you.
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Hound of Sauron gets -5 engagement cost for each enemy in the staging area.
Shadow: Attacking enemy gets +1 (+2 instead if it was engaged with round).
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Forced: After Howling Warg attacks, place 1 damage on an active location.
Shadow: Attacking enemy gets +1 If this attack destroys a character, place 1 damage on an active location.
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When Revealed: Either exhaust a hero you control, or engaged Crebain from Dunland.
Forced: After Crebain from Dunland engages a player, reveal the top card of the encounter deck.
Immune to player card effects.
Forced: When Redhorn Pass is explored, each player assigns X damage among characters he controls. X is the number of damage here.
"We may well be seen by watchers on that narrow path..." –Gandalf, The Fellowship of the Ring
Immune to player card effects.
Progress cannot be placed on each other active location before it can be placed here. Progress cannot be placed here unless the first player controls the Ring-bearer.
If there are 9 damage tokens, the players lose the game.
While Tree-crowned hill is the active location, each enemy gets -1
Forced: When Tree-crowned hill is explored, the players, as a group, exhaust X characters in play. X is the number of damage here.
For their defense in the night the Company climbed to the top of the small hill... –The Fellowship of the Ring
While Hills of Hollin is the active location, each enemy in the staging area gets +5 engagement cost.
Forced: When Hills of Hollin is explored, each player raises his threat by 1 for each damage here.
For their defense in the night the Company climbed to the top of the small hill... –The Fellowship of the Ring
While Hills of Hollin is the active location, it gains:"Forced: After an enemy is added to the staging area, it gets -5 engagement cost until the end of the round."
Forced: When Redhorn Foothills is explored, each player must discard X cards from his hand at random. X is the number of damage here.
Forced: When Eregion is explored, the players, as a group, must discard X allies from play. X is the number of damage here.
Shadow: Defending player discards a non-objective attachment he controls.
When Revealed: Place 3 damage on each active location.
Shadow: Undefended damage from this attack must be assigned to the active location.
"I think they are spying out the land." –Aragorn, The Fellowship of the Ring
When Revealed: Attach to the active location. (Countss as a Condition attachment with the text, "Limit 1 per location. No more than 3 progress can be placed on attached location each round.") If Snowdrifts is not attached to the active location, it gains surge.
Soon even Boromir found it hard to keep going. –The Fellowship of the Ring
When Revealed: Each player must choose: either discard each ally he controls, or raise his threat by 1 for each ally he controls.
Shadow: Attacking enemy makes an additional attack after this one.
When Revealed: Either the Warg enemy in the staging area with the highest engagement cost attacks you, or each Warg enemy gets -20 engagement until the end of the round. If no Warg enemy is in the staging area, Storm of Howls gains surge.
Forced: At the end of the quest phase, remove 1 damage token from Doom, Doom, Doom. Then, if there are no damage tokens here, add The Balrog to the staging area.
Forced: At the end of the quest phase, The Balrog makes an attack if it is in play.
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Cannot be optionally engaged. The Balrog and shadow cards dealt to The Balrog are immune to player card effects.
While in the staging area, The Balrog is considered to be engaged with the first player and only the first player can declare attackers against The Balrog.
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Cannot have attachments. Allies cannot defend against Orc-chieftain.
Forced: At the beginning of the encounter phase, Orc-chieftain engages the first player.
...he charged into the Company and thrust his spear straight at Frodo. –The Fellowship of the Ring
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Cannot have attachments.
For each point of excess damage dealt by Cave-troll (damage that is dealt beyond the remaining hit points of the character damaged by its attack) remove 1 progress from the current quest.
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When Revealed: Uruk from Mordor makes an immediate attack against the first player.
Shadow: Attacking enemy gets +1 If this attack destroys a character, attacking enemy makes an additional attack.
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When Revealed: Either remove 1 damage from Doom Doom Doom or reveal an additional encounter card.
Shadow: The defending player raises his threat by 1 for each enemy engaged with him.
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X is the number of players in the game.
When Revealed: Assign X damage among characters you control.
Immune to player card effects.
Response: When The Great Bridge is explored, discard a hero from play to deal X damage to The Balrog. X is that hero's threat cost. Then, The Balrog loses all keywords for the remainder of the game. Any player may trigger this response.
Immune to player card effects.
The player cannot advance to the next stage.
Travel: Each player searches the encounter deck and discard pile for a different enemy and adds it to the staging area to travel here. One of those enemies must be Orc-chieftain, if able.
Whiles Mines of Moria is in the staging area, progress must be placed on Mines of Moria before it can be placed on the current quest.
Shadow: Defending player discards a non-objective attachment he controls (2 non-objective attachments instead if his threat is 35 or higher).
Many-pillared Hall gets +1 for each Many-pillared Hall in play.
Shadow: Attacking enemy gets +1 (+2 instead if the defending player's threat is 35 or higher).
Forced: After Darkened Stairway is explored, discard the top card of the encounter deck. If the discarded card is a location, add it to the staging area.
Frodo caught glimpses of stairs and arches and of other passages and tunnels, sloping up, or running steeply down, or opening blankly dakr on either side. –The Fellowship of the Ring
While Ancient Guardroom is the active location, each enemy in play gets -1
Travel: Discard the top card of the encounter deck to travel here. Each player raises his threat by X, where X is the discarded card's
When Revealed: Shuffle the encounter discard pile into the encounter deck and discard cards from the top of the encounter deck until X enemies are discarded. X is the number of players in the game. Add each enemy discarded this way to the staging area.
When Revealed: Each player assigns X damage among characters he controls. X is the number of exhausted characters he controls.
Shadow: Assign X damage among characters you control. X is the number of enemies engaged with you.
When Revealed: Remove a character you control from the quest and discard the top card of the encounter deck. If that character's printed is less than the discarded card's discard that character.
...it was long before Pippin could summon enough courage to leap... –The Fellowship of the Ring
When Revealed: Remove 1 damage token from Doom Doom Doom or The Balrog makes an attack, if able.
Shadow: If this attack destroys a character, reveal 1 card from the encounter deck.
If Frodo's Choice is discarded, reveal it instead.
When Revealed: Take control of the first player token and the Ring-bearer (and each card attached to it). Attach to the Ring-bearer. For the rest of the game, you cannot lose control of the first player token.
"I will go alone." –Frodo, The Fellowship of the Ring
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Toughness 2. Cannot have attachments.
Allies with fewer printed hit points than Uruk-hai Captain cannot defend against Uruk-hai Captain.
Shadow: Attacking enemy makes an additional attack after this one.
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Peril. Toughness 1. Archery X.
X is the number of players at this stage.
When Revealed: Discard an ally you control.
...they had bows of yew, in length and shape like the bows of Men. –The Fellowship of the Ring
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Surge. Toughness 1. Archery 1.
Uruk-hai Tracker gets +2 against characters with 2 or fewer printed hit points.
Shadow: Discard a non-objective attachment you control.
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When Revealed: Either choose a player to reveal an additional encounter card, or Uruk-hai Hunter makes an immediate attack against you.
"I fear that the Orcs may already be on this side of the water." –Aragorn, The Fellowship of the Ring
Immune to player card effects.
Travel: Search the encounter deck and discard pile for an enemy and add it to the staging area to travel here. Shuffle the encounter deck.
While Parth Galen is in play, the players cannot win the game.
Immune to player card effects.
Response: When Seat of Seeing is explored, choose a burden card in play, in the encounter deck, or in the discard pile, and remove it from the game. Shuffle the encounter deck. (If you are playing campaign mode, remove that card from the campaign pool.)