While Ring-wall of Isengard is in the staging area, it gains:"Forced: After any amount of damage is healed from a character, its owner discards 1 card from his hand."
Wizardry: Each player discards 1 random card from his hand.
While Underground Armoury is in the staging area, it gains:"Forced: After an enemy engages a player, deal it a shadow card."
Wizardry: Each player exhausts a character he controls.
The shafts ran down by many slopes and spiral stairs to caverns far under; there Saruman had treasuries, store–houses, armouries, smithies, and great furnaces. –The Two Towers
While Steaming Vent is in the staging area, it gains:"Forced: After a player commits characters to the quest, he deals 1 damage to a questing character he controls."
Wizardry: Assign X damage among characters in play. X is 1 more than the number of players in the game.
X is the number of players in the game.
While Plain of Isengard is in the staging area, archery damage must be assigned to allies, if able.
Wizardry: Each player discards 1 ally he controls.
While Open Pit is in the staging area, it gains:"Forced: After a player draws any number of cards from a player card effect, he raises his threat by 2."
Wizardry: Each player raises his threat by 2.
Mire 2. Forced: When Haunted Mere is discarded by the Mire keyword, search the encounter deck and discard pile for an Undead enemy, reveal it, and add it to the staging area. Shuffle the encounter deck.
Travel: Exhaust Smeagol to travel here.
"They lie in all the pools, pale faces, deep deep under the dark water." -Frodo, The Two Towers
Mire 5. Forced: When Stagnant Pools is discarded by the Mire keyword, raise each player's threat by 5.
Stagnant Pools gets +1 for each mire token on it.
Travel: Exhaust Smeagol to travel here.
Mists curled and smoked from dark and noisome pools. The reek of them hung stifling in the still air. -The Two Towers
Mire 1. Forced: When Soft Mires is discarded by the Mire keyword, the first player reveals an encounter card.
Travel: Raise each player's threat by 1 to travel here.
The hobbits soon found that what had looked like one vast fen was really an endless network of pools, and soft mires... -The Two Towers
Immune to player card effects.
The Cross-roads gets -1 for each facedown card under it. The players cannot travel here unless there are 0 facedown cards under The Cross-roads and at least 20 progress tokens on stage 1B.
"We must go to the Cross–roads. But make haste! Be silent!" -Gollum, The Two Towers
While Henneth Ann–n is the active location, skip both the encounter phase and combat phase, and ignore the Forced effects on stage 1B and The Black Gate.
Forced: After Henneth Ann–n becomes the active location, return each engaged enemy to the staging area.
"This is the Window of the Sunset, Henneth Ann–n, fairest of all the falls of Ithilien..." -Faramir, The Two Towers
While Southward Road is the active location, each player may optionally engage an additional enemy during the encounter phase.
Travel: The first player reveals the top facedown card under The Cross-roads and adds it to the staging area to travel here.
"These cursed Southrons come now marching up the ancient roads to swell the hosts of the Dark Tower." -Mablung, The Two Towers
While Foothills of Ephel Dúath is the active location, each Harad enemy gets -1
Travel: The first player engages an enemy in the staging area to travel here.
"And they go ever more heedlessly, we learn, thinking that the power of their new master is great enough, so that the mere shadow of His hills will protect them." -Mablung, The Two Towers
While Ithilien Woods is the active location, it gains:"Forced: After a player engages a Harad enemy, he readies a character he controls."
Travel: The first player reveals an encounter card to travel here.
Ithilien, the garden of Gondor now desolate kept still a dishevelled dryad loveliness. -The Two Towers
While Hills of Ithilien is the active location, it gains:"Forced: After a player engages a Harad enemy, deal 1 damage to that enemy."
Shadow: Discard a non-objective attachment you control.
Immune to player card effects.
Forced: After Morgul Vale is explored, search the encounter deck and discard pile for a Morgul Wraith and add it to the staging area. Shuffle the encounter deck. Then, the first player must either exhaust The One Ring or discard 1 random card from each player's hand.
Immune to player card effects.
Travel: Either exhaust Sméagol, or discard 1 random card from each player's hand.
Forced: After Sméagol's Secret Way is explored, each player either exhausts a character he controls, or discards 1 random card from his hand.
"...a stair, a narrow stair, O yes, very long and narrow. And then more stairs." -Gollum, The Two Towers
Immune to player card effects.
While The Cleft of Cirith Ungol is in the victory display, Shelob gets +2 
loses the Indestructible keyword, and gains: "Shelob engages the first player."
Travel: Place 1 resource on Shelob to travel here.
The Cleft, Cirith Ungol, was before him, a dim notch in the black ridge... -The Two Towers
Forced: When The Spider's Lair is explored, remove 1 resource from Shelob.
Forced: After The Spider's Lair becomes the active location, Shelob makes an attack against the first player.
There agelong she had dwelt, an evil thing in spider–form, even such as once of old had lived in the Land of the Elves in the West that is now under the Sea... -The Two Towers
While The Under-way is in the staging area, each Orc enemy gets -5 engagement cost and gains:"Forced: After this enemy engages a player, deal it a shadow card."
Shadow: Deal the attacking enemy 2 additional shadow cards.
While Deep Dark Passage is in the staging area, it gains:"Forced: When any amount of progress would be placed on a location in the staging area, reduce that amount by 1."
Travel: Exhaust Sméagol to travel here.
Not since the lightless passages of Moria had Frodo or Sam known such darkness, and if possible here it was deeper and denser. -The Two Towers
While Den of Night is in the staging area, it gains:"Forced: After a `When Revealed' effect is canceled, place 1 resource on Shelob."
Travel: Place 1 resource on Shelob to travel here.
Here was some opening in the rock far wider than any they had yet passed; and out of it came a reek so foul, and a sense of lurking malice so intense, that Frodo reeled. -The Two Towers
When Revealed: Make Blocked Tunnel the active location, returning any previous active location to the staging area.
Action: Exhaust a character with a Weapon attachment to place 3 progress on Blocked Tunnel. (Any player may trigger this effect.)
Across the width and height of the tunnel a vast web was spun, orderly as the web of some huge spider... -The Two Towers
Immune to player card effects.
Forced: After The Stone of Erech becomes the active location, each player searches the encounter deck and discard pile for an Oathbreaker enemy and adds it to the staging area. Shuffle the encounter deck.
Travel: Remove 5 progress from stage 3B to travel here.
While Dark Door is in the staging area, progress cannot be placed on locations in the staging area.
Travel: The first player reveals an encounter card to travel here.
...before him stood a stony door closed fast...
–The Return of the King
While Trysting Place is in the staging area, each enemy in the staging area cannot take damage.
Travel: The first player searches the encounter deck and discard pile for an Oathbreaker enemy and puts it into play engaged with him. Shuffle the encounter deck.
While Deadly Road is in the staging area, it gains:"Forced: After a 'when revealed' effect is canceled, raise each player's threat by 1."
Travel: Spend 1
resource to travel here.
"I was held to the road only by the will of Aragorn."
–Gimli, The Return of the King
Haunted Path gets +1 for each player with a threat of 35 or higher.
Travel: Raise each player's threat by 1 to travel here.
Shadow: Either raise your your threat by 2, or return attacking enemy to the staging area after this attack.
X is the number of resources on The Corsair Fleet.
The players cannot travel here unless there are at least 3 Ship locations in the victory display.
Travel: Each player searches the encounter deck and discard pile for a Corsair enemy and adds it to the staging area. One of those enemies must be Corsair Captain, if able.
While Umbar War Galley is the active location, each Corsair enemy gets -10 engagement cost.
Travel: Shuffle the encounter discard pile into the encounter deck and discard cards from the encounter deck until a Corsair enemy is discarded. Add the discarded enemy to the staging area.
"The Corsairs are upon us! It is the last stroke of doom!"
–Men of Gondor, The Return of the King
While Corsair Dromon is the active location, each Corsair enemy gains Archery 1.
Travel: Shuffle the encounter discard pile into the encounter deck and discard cards from the top until a Corsair enemy is discarded. Add the discarded enemy to the staging area.
While Port of Pelargir is in the staging area, no more than 1 damage can be healed from each character each round.
Shadow: If this attack damages a character, that character cannot ready until the end of the round.
Forced: At the end of the round, place a damage token here. Then, if there are 4 damage tokens here, discard Pelargir Quays and assign 4 damage among characters in play.
"...this attack will draw off much of the help that we looked to have from Lebennin and Belfalas..."
–Beregond, The Return of the King
Immune to player card effects.
X is the number of resources on Grond.
Forced: At the beginning of the quest phase, place 1 resource on Grond. Then, deal X damage to Minas Tirith.
Travel: The Witch-king makes an immediate attack against each player, in turn order.
Immune to player card effects.
While Gate of Gondor is the active location, each enemy in play gets -30 engagement cost.
Forced: When Gate of Gondor is explored, return each engaged enemy to the staging area.
...it was the key, the weakest point in all that high and impenetrable wall. –The Return of the King
While City Wall is the active location, damage that would be placed on Minas Tirith must be placed here first.
Forced: When City Walls has damage equal to its quest points, discard it. Then, each player raises his threat by 3.
For the main wall of the City was of great height and marvellous thickness... –The Return of the King
While at least 1 enemy is in the staging area, progress cannot be placed on locations in the staging area.
Shadow: Attacking enemy gets +1 (+2 instead if it has the Harad trait).
Forced: When a player plays an event that would cancel the effects of a treachery card just revealed from the encounter deck, cancel the effects of that event. Then, discard Fire-filled Trench.
...as the trenches were made each was filled with fire, though how it was kindled or fed, by art or devilry, none could see. –The Return of the King
While Siege Tower is in the staging area, it gains Archery 3.
Forced: After Siege Tower becomes the active location, shuffle the encounter discard pile into the encounter deck and discard cards from the top until an enemy is discarded. Add the discarded enemy to the staging area.
Immune to player card effect.
The players cannot travel here unless there is at least 18 progress on stage 2B.
Travel: Add Shagrat to the staging area to travel here.
"That's what I'm going to do," said Shagrat in angry tones. "Put him up in the top chamber."
–The Return of the King
Echoing Passage gets +1 for each enemy in the staging area.
While Echoing Passage is the active location, each enemy gets +2 
Many doors and openings could be seen on this side and that; but it was empty save for two or three more bodies sprawling on the floor.
–The Return of the King
While Bloodied Courtyard is the active location, it gains:"Forced: After an enemy enters the staging area, deal 1 damage to it."
Travel: Raise each player's threat by 1 to travel here.
At once he saw that up here the fighting has been fiercest. All the court was choked with dead orcs or their severed and scattered heads and limbs. The place stank of death.
–The Return of the King
While Winding Stairs is the active location, each enemy in the staging area gets +10 engagement cost.
Travel: Each player must exhaust a character he controls to travel here.
The stairs were high and steep and winding.
–The Return of the King
Forced: After the players travel to Torch-lit Hall, discard cards from the top of the encounter deck until an enemy is discarded. If there is a copy of that enemy in the staging area, discard that copy as well. If there is not, add the just discarded enemy to the staging area.
It was dimly lit with torches flaring in brackets on the walls, but its distant end was lost in gloom.
–The Return of the King
Immune to player card effects. The players cannot travel here.
The Black Gate gets +1 for each resource on it.
Forced: At the beginning of the quest phase, place 1 resource here and raise each player's threat by 1.
The great doors of the Black Gate swung back wide. Out of it streamed a great host as swiftly as swirling waters when a sluice is lifted.
–The Return of the King
Immune to player card effects.
X is the number of characters controlled by the player with the most characters.
While Towers of the Teeth is the active location, players cannot play allies.
...now near loomed the great rampart of Cirith Gorgor, and the Black Gate amidmost, and the Two Towers of the Teeth tall and dark upon either side.
–The Return of the King
While Beleaguered Hills is the active location, reduce the total in the staging area by X, where X is the total of each engaged enemy.
Forced: After Beleaguered Hills becomes the active location, each player engages a non-unique enemy in the staging area.
The onslaught of Mordor broke like a wave on the beleaguered hills... –The Return of the King
While Waste of Dagorlad is the active location, treat the printed text box of each ally as if it were blank (except for Traits).
SO desolate were those places and so deep the horror that lay on them that some of the host were unmanned.
–The Return of the King
Forced: When Slopes of Cirith Gorgor leaves play. the first player shuffles the encounter discard pile into the encounter deck and discards cards from the top until an enemy is discarded. Then, he puts that enemy into play engaged with him.
...they knew that all the hills and rocks about the Morannon were filled with hidden foes...
–The Return of the King