When Revealed: The opposing team chooses a questing charactert controlled by each player and removes them from the quest.
Shadow: Defending character cannot ready until the end of the round.
When Revealed: Until the end of the round, treat each character's text box as if it were blank, except for Traits.
Shadow: Until the end of the phase, treat the defending character's text box as blank, except for Traits.
When Revealed: The opposing team searches the encounter deck and discard pile for a different 0-cost location per player and adds them to the staging area. Shuffle the encounter deck.
Shadow: The opposing team shuffles a location from the encounter discard pile into the encounter deck.
When Revealed: Each player exhausts a character he controls. Until the end of the round, characters cannot be readied by player card effects.
Shadow: Remove the defending character from the attack. A different defending character may be declared.
When Revealed: Raise each player's threat by X, where X is the threat of the active location. If there is no active location, Dark Places gains surge.
Shadow: Attacking enemy gets +X
where X is the stage number of the main quest.
When Revealed: Each player deals 1 damage to a questing character he controls and removes that character from the quest.
Shadow: Deal 1 damage to a character you control.
When Revealed: Exhaust X characters, where X is the number of Uruk enemies in play. If there are no Uruk enemies in play, Orcish Howls gains surge.
Shadow: Attacking enemy gets +1 (+2 instead if it is an Uruk).
When Revealed: The opposing team attaches Vast and Intricate to a non-unique location in the staging area. If there are no non-unique locations in the staging area, Vast and Intricate gains surge. (Counts as a Condition attachment with the text: "Attached location gets +2 
and is immune to player card effects.")
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.
When Revealed: The opposing team chooses an attachment controlled by a player and discards it. If no attachment is discarded this way, A Foe Beyond gains surge.
Shadow: Discard an attachment you control.
Doomed 1. (Raise each players threat by 1.)
When Revealed: Until the end of the round, each Ship enemy gains Archery 2.
Shadow: Assign 2 damage among characters you control (3 damage instead if there are 10 or more cards in your discard pile).
When Revealed: Each player puts the top card of the Corsair deck into play engaged with them.
Shadow: Attacking enemy gets +1 (+2 instead if you control an exhausted Ship objective).
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: Until the end of the round, treat the text box of each non-Ship ally as blank, except for Traits. If a player controls 7 or more allies, Overworked gains surge.
Shadow: Attacking enemy gets +1 (+3 instead if you control 7 or more allies).
When Revealed: Attach to a Ship objective. (Counts as a Condition attachment with the text:"Forced: When attached objective exhausts, deal 2 damage to it.Action: Exhaust 3 characters to discard Taking on Water.")
Shadow: If defending character is a Ship attach Taking on Water to it.
When Revealed: Deal 1 damage to each enemy. Each player assigns X among characters they control. X is the number of exhausted characters they control.
Shadow: Deal 1 damage to the defending character.
When Revealed: The player with the highest threat exhausts all heroes he controls. Then, attach this card to one of that player's heroes. (Counts as a Condition attachment with the text, "Each time attached hero readies, deal it 1 damage.")
When Revealed: The topmost enemy or location card in the encounter discard pile is returned to the staging area.
Shadow: Deal and resolve the topmost Shadow effect in the encounter discard pile for this attack.
When Revealed: Search the victory display and encounter discard pile for the enemy with the most hit points. Return that enemy to the staging area. If no enemy is returned by this effect, Pursuit on the Shore gains surge. (Cannot be canceled.)
When Revealed: All engaged Troll enemies attack. If no Troll enemies are engaged, Troll gains surge.
Shadow: If attacking enemy is a Troll resolve this attack against each player. is undefended against each player not engaged with this enemy.)
When Revealed: Remove all damage from all enemies. Then, each player raises his threat by the amount of just removed from his engaged enemies. If no damage is removed by this effect, Smoking Blood gains surge.
Shadow: Move all damage on this enemy to the defending character. (If undefended, move the damage to the hero damaged by this 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.)
When Revealed: Add 1 resource token to each Dol Guldur location in play.
Shadow: If there is a Dol Guldur location in the staging area, move 1 resource token from each of your heroes' resource pools to that location. (Resolve this effect for each Dol Guldur location.)
When Revealed: Each player must choose and discard cards from hand until he has only 2 cards in hand. (Each player with 2 or fewer cards in hand must instead reveal 1 card from the encounter deck.)
Shadow: Discard each card you control that has at least 1 copy of itself in your discard pile. (If this attack is undefended, each player must resolve this effect.)
When Revealed: Search the encounter discard pile for a Clue card and attach it to a Mordor enemy in play, if able. If no card is attached by this effect, The Enemy's Trail gains surge.
Shadow: Search the encounter discard pile for a Clue card and attach it to a Mordor enemy in play, if able.
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: Attach to the active location and remove all progress from that location. (Counts as a Condition attachment with the text:"Limit 1 per location. Attached location contributes its during the quest phase as if it were in the staging area.")
If The Trail Goes Cold does not attach to a location as a result of this effect, it gains surge.
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
When Revealed: Each player must either increase his threat by 5, or reveal an additional encounter card from the encounter deck and add it to the staging area.
Shadow: Attacking enemy gets +X X is the of the active location.
When Revealed: Discard a random Emyn Muil location from the victory display.
...they had climbed and laboured among the barren slopes and stones of Emyn Muil, sometimes retracing their steps because they could find no way forward...
–The Two Towers
When Revealed: Each player makes an escape test, dealing 1 card from the encounter deck. Each player who fails this test must either discard a hero from play or raise his threat by 5.
Escape: 5
"You should not look in when the candles are lit." –Gollum, The Two Towers
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
When Revealed: Return the top X Undead enemies in the encounter discard pile to the staging area, where X is the number of players. If no enemies were returned to the staging area as a result of this effect, Devilry of the Dark Land gains surge.
Escape: 10
'But that is an age and more ago,' said Sam. 'The Dead can't be really there!' –The Two Towers
When Revealed: Discard all attachments controlled by the player guarding Gollum. Then remove all cards in that player's discard pile from the game. If no attachments are discarded as a result of this effect, Befouled Equipment gains surge.
Shadow: Discard all attachments controlled by the player guarding Gollum.
When Revealed: The player guarding Gollum must either reveal the topmost Tantrum card in the encounter discard pile, or reveal 2 additional encounter cards from the encounter deck.
Shadow: Deal the topmost Tantrum card in the encounter discard pile as a new shadow card for this attack, if able.
When Revealed: Reveal the top X cards of the encounter deck, adding all enemies to the staging area. Discard the other revealed cards without resolving them. X is 2 plus the number of players not engaged with a Goblin enemy.
Eachoes ran along as they hurried forward; and there seemed to be the sound of many footfalls following their own. –The Fellowship of the Ring
When Revealed: Choose and remove characters from the quest until the total of characters removed from the quest is equal to or higher than The Nameless Fear's
Shadow: Discard each attachment you control with a cost less than The Nameless Fear's
While Blinding Blizzard is in play, heroes do not collect resources during the resource phase.
When Revealed: Add Blinding Blizzard to the staging area. Progress that would be placed on the current quest or on Snow locations are instead placed on Blinding Blizzard. When the 5th progress is placed on Blinding Blizzard, discard it.
When Revealed: Return all Snow cards in the encounter discard pile to the top of the encounter deck, in random order. Reveal the top card of the encounter deck (reveal the top 2 cards instead if there are 3 or 4 players in the game).
"Caradhras has not forgiven us," he said. "He has more snow yet to fling at us, if we go on."
–Gimli, The Fellowship of the Ring
When Revealed: Return each engaged enemy with the ambush keyword to the staging area. Each player makes engagement checks against each enemy in the staging area, as if it were the encounter phase. If there are no enemies with the ambush keyword in play, Tumultuous Assault gains surge.
When Revealed: Deal 3 damage to each character with a Tentacle attachment. If no characters were damaged by this effect, Pulled Under gains surge.
Shadow: If the defending character has a Tentacle attachment, discard that character.