When Revealed: Each player must choose and exhaust 1 character he controls.

Shadow: Defending player must choose and exhaust 1 character he controls. (2 characters instead if this attack is undefended.)

When Revealed: Each character currently committed to a quest gets -1 until the end of the phase.

Shadow: Raise defending player's threat by 4. (Raise defending player's threat by 8 instead if this attack is undefended.)

Travel: Each player must exhaust 1 hero he controls to travel here.

As he drew nearer, he saw that it was made with spider–webs one behind and over and tangled with another.
–The Hobbit

Travel: Reveal the top card of the encounter deck and add it to the staging area to travel here.

Response: After Mountains of Mirkwood leaves play as an explored location, each player may search the top 5 cards of his deck for 1 card and add it to his hand. Shuffle the rest of the searched cards back into their owners' decks.

When Revealed: Each player discards all event cards in his hand.

...he would see gleams in the darkness around them, and sometimes pairs of yellow or red or green eyes would stare at him from a little distance, and then slowly fade and disappear and slowly shine out again in another place.
–The Hobbit

When Revealed: The player with the highest threat level attaches this card to one of his heroes. (Counts as a Condition attachment with the text: 'Attached hero does not ready during the refresh phase unless you pay 2 resources from that hero's pool.')

Surge.

Shadow: Wolf Rider attacks the defending player. That player may declare 1 character as a defender. Deal Wolf Rider its own Shadow card. After combat, return Wolf Rider to the top of the encounter deck.

During the encounter phase, players cannot optionally engage Goblin Sniper if there are other enemies in the staging area.

Forced: If Goblin Sniper is in the staging area at the end of the combat phase, each player deals 1 point of damage to 1 character he controls.

Forced: If Wargs is dealt a shadow card with no effect, return Wargs to the staging area after it attacks.

Shadow: attacking enemy gets +1 (+2 instead if this attack is undefended.)

When Revealed: Remove 4 progress tokens from the current quest card. (If there are fewer than 4 progress tokens on the quest, remove all progress tokens from that quest.)

Shadow: Defending character does not count its

Forced: After the players travel to The Brown Lands, place 1 progress token on it.

They had come to the Brown Lands that lay, vast and desolate, between Southern Mirkwood and the hills of the Emyn Muil. What pestilence or war or evil deed of the Enemy had so blasted all that region even Aragorn could not tell.
–The Fellowship of the Ring

When faced with the option to travel, the players must travel to The East Bight if there is no active location.

"...to the east the lands are waste, and full of Sauron's creatures..."
–Haldir, The Fellowship of the Ring

When Revealed: The first player chooses 1 character currently committed to a quest. Deal 2 damage to that character.

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

Forced: When Dol Guldur Beastmaster attacks, deal it 1 additional shadow card.

When Revealed: Each enemy and each location currently in the staging area gets +1 until the end of the phase. If there are no cards in the staging area, Driven by Shadow gains Surge.

Shadow: Choose and discard 1 attachment from the defending character. (If this attack is undefended, discard all attachments you control.)

When Revealed: Deal 1 damage to each exhausted character.

There was an eye in the Dark Tower that did not sleep. He knew that it had become aware of his gaze. A fierce eager will was there. – The Fellowship of the Ring

Travel: The first player must discard 2 cards from his hand at random to travel here.

"It is clad in a forest of dark fir, where the trees strive one against another and their branches rot and wither. In the midst upon a stony height stands Dol Guldur, where long the hidden Enemy had his dwelling."
–Haldir, The Fellowship of the Ring

While Enchanted Stream is the active location, players cannot draw cards.

"There is one stream, I know, black and strong which crosses the path. That you should neither drink of, nor bathe in; for I have heard that it carries enchantment and a great drowsiness and forgetfulness."
–Beorn, The Hobbit

Forced: After Forest Spider engages a player, it gets +1 until the end of the round.

Shadow: Defending player must choose and discard 1 attachment he controls.

Shadow: attacking enemy gets +1 (If this attack is undefended, also raise your threat by 3.)

When Revealed: Each player must choose 1 character currently committed to a quest, and remove that character from the quest. (The chosen character does not ready.)

They could not stand that, nor the huge bats, black as a top–hat, either...
–The Hobbit

Response: After you travel to Old Forest Road the first player may choose and ready 1 character he controls.

...Beorn had warned them that that way was now often used by the goblins, while the forest–road itself, he had heard, was overgrown and disused on the eastern end and led to impassable marshes where the path had long been lost.
–The Hobbit

Response: After you travel to Forest Gate the first player may draw 2 cards.

The path itself was narrow and wound in and out among the trunks. Soon the light in the gate was like a little bright hole far behind, and the quiet was so deep that their feet seemed to thump along while the trees leaned over them and listened.
–The Hobbit

No attachments can be played on Nazgûl of Dol Guldur.

Forced: When the prisoner is 'rescued', move Nazgûl of Dol Guldur into the staging area.

Forced: After a shadow effect dealt to Nazgûl of Dol Guldur resolves, the engaged player must choose and discard 1 character he controls.

Doomed 1.

Shadow: Choose and discard 1 attachment you control. Discarded objective cards are returned to the staging area. (If this attack is undefended, discard all attachments you control.)

When Revealed: Until the end of the phase, raise the total in the staging area by X, where X is the number of players in the game.

Shadow: Defending player raises his threat by the number of enemies with which he is engaged.

When Revealed: Attach Iron Shackles to the top of the first player's deck. Counts as a Condition attachment with the text:

The next time a player would draw 1 or more cards from attached deck, discard Iron Shackles instead.

Shadow: Resolve the 'When Revealed' effect of Iron Shackles.

Doomed 1. Surge.

"I alone of you have ever been in the dungeons of the Dark Lord, and only in his older and lesser dwelling in Dol Guldur."
–Gandalf, The Fellowship of the Ring

Forced: After travelling to Tower Gate each player places the top card of his deck, face down in front of him, as if it just engaged him from the staging area. These cards are called 'Orc Guard', and act as enemies with: 1 hit point, 1 and 1

"I myself dared to pass the doors of the Necromancer in Dol Guldur, and secretly explored his ways."
–Gandalf, The Fellowship of the Ring

Forced: After Misty Mountain Goblins attacks, remove 1 progress token from the current quest.

Shadow: Remove 1 progress token from the current quest. (3 progress tokens instead if this attack is undefended.)

When Revealed: Reveal X additional cards from the encounter deck. X is the number of players in the game.

Shadow: Deal X shadow cards to this attacker. X is the number of players in the game.

Forced: If Banks of the Anduin leaves play, return it to the top of the encounter deck instead of placing it in the discard pile.

Here and there through openings Frodo could catch sudden glimpses of rolling mounds, and far beyond them hills in the sunset, and away on the edge of sight a dark line, where marches the southernmost ranks of the Misty Mountains.
–The Fellowship of the Ring

Surge.

Forced: After Eastern Crows is defeated, shuffle it back into the encounter deck.

Shadow: attacking enemy gets +1 (+2 instead if defending player's threat is 35 or higher.)

When Revealed: Deal 1 damage to each character controlled by each player with a threat of 35 or higher.

"They say in my land he can govern the storms in the Mountains of Shadow..."
–Boromir, The Fellowship of the Ring

When Revealed: Each player raises his threat by 1 for each character he controls that is not currently committed to a quest.

Shadow: Defending player chooses and returns 1 exhausted ally he controls to its owner's hand. If he controls no exhausted allies, raise his threat by 3.

When Revealed: Each location in the staging area gets +1 until the end of the phase. Then, each player with a threat of 35 or higher chooses and discards 1 card from his hand.

"But it will be hard to find the path unless the fog lifts a little later on."
–Aragorn, The Fellowship of the Ring

Forced: After Ungoliant's Swarm engages a player, that player must choose and exhaust 2 characters they control.

Shadow: Put Ungoliant's Swarm into play engaged with you.

Surge.

When Revealed: Each player must choose: either exhaust each damaged character you control, or deal 2 damage to the hero you control with the most damage on it.

Shadow: Exhaust each damaged character you control.

While it is engaged with you, Spiders of Mirkwood gets +1 for each exhausted character you control.

Shadow: Choose and exhaust 1 character you control. If this attack was undefended, also deal that character 2 damage.

Forced: After Gret Spider engages you, exhaust a character you control.

Shadow: Deal 1 damage to an exhausted character you control.

While The Eaves of Mirkwood is the active location, encounter card effects cannot be canceled.

By the afternoon they had reached the eaves of Mirkwood, and were resting almost beneath the great overhanging boughs of its outer trees.
–The Hobbit

X is the number of locations in the staging area.

Travel: Each player must discard 1 random card from his hand to travel here.

Response: After you travel to Forest Gate the first player draws 2 cards.

Soon the light in the gate was like a little bright hole far behind, and the quiet was so deep that their feet seemed to thump along while the trees leaned over them and listened.
–The Hobbit

Quest Action: Search the encounter deck and discard pile for a Spider enemy and put it into play engaged with you to discard Spider Den. (Any player may trigger this effect.)

Response: After the players travel to Abandoned Camp, the first player discards the top card of their deck, If that card is any ally, put it into play under their control.

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

When Revealed: Each enemy and each location currently in the staging area gets +1 until the end of the phase. If there are no cards in the staging area, Driven by Shadow gains surge.

Shadow: Choose and discard 1 attachment from the defending character. (If this attack is undefended, discard all attachments you control.)

When Revealed: Each player returns 1 enemy engaged with him to the staging area. If no enemy was returned to the staging area this way, Surprising Speed gains surge and doomed 1.

Shadow: Attacking enemy gets +1 . Return attacking enemy to the staging area after this attack.

When Revealed: The player with the highest threat level attached this card to one of his heroes. (Counts as a Condition attachment with the text: "Attached hero does not ready during the refresh phase unless you pay 2 resources from that hero's pool.")

Cannot have attachments.

While Goblin Troop is engaged with you, each other Goblin enemy engaged with you gets +1 and +1

Shadow: Attacking enemy gets +2

During the encounter phase, players cannot optionally engage Goblin Sniper if there are other enemies in the staging area.

Forced: If Goblin Sniper is in the staging area at the end of the combat phase, each player deals 1 point of damage to 1 character he controls.