Attach to an enemy engaged with a player.
Attached enemy cannot attack.
"We shall have it like a coney in a trap. Then we shall learn what kind of thing it is."
–Unidentified Man of Gondor,
The Two Towers
When Revealed: Discard the top card of the encounter deck. If the discarded card is a Tentacle enemy, add that card to the staging area and raise each player's threat by 5.
When they came to the northernmost corner of the lake they found a narrow creek that barreed their way. It was green and stagnant, thrust out like a slimy arm towards the enclosing hills.
–The Fellowship of the Ring
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X is the number of players in the game.
Shadow: Attacking enemy gets +1 (+3 instead if it has the Harad trait.)
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Each Outlands character you control gets +1 .
... grim–faced they were, and shorter and somewhat swarthier than any men that Pippin had yet seen in Gondor. – The Return of the King
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When Revealed: Add the topmost Orc enemy from the encounter discard pile to the staging area.
Shadow: Defending player discards an attachment he controls. (All attachments he controls instead if undefended.)
When Revealed: Each player must search the encounter deck or discard pile for a Creature enemy and put it into play engaged with him. Shuffle the encounter deck. This effect cannot be canceled.
"An evil of the Ancient World it seemed, such as I have never seen before..."
–Aragorn, The Fellowship of the Ring
When Revealed: Each player must either discard 1 card from the top of his deck for each questing character he controls, or remove each character he controls from the quest.
The mist was flowing past him now in shreds and tatters. –The Fellowship of the Ring
When Revealed: Discard the top 3 cards of the encounter deck. The first player must either remove X progress from among the quests in play, or assign X damage among characters he controls. X is the total of the discarded cards.
Shadow: If this attack destroys a character, raise your threat by the destroyed character's .
The imposter in Iârion's body collapses in agony, and a piercing shriek echoes the halls as the sorcerer exits Iârion. "Thank you," Iârion says with a pained smile before his eyes close for the last time. Before you can mourn your loss, the walls begin to shake and crack. The catacombs are collapsing!
When Revealed: If there are less than X locations in the staging area, search the encounter deck and discard pile and add locations to the staging area until there are X locations in staging area. X is the number of players in the game.
Reanimated Dead are Undead enemies with 2 , 2 , 2 and 2 hit points.
Progress that would be placed on this quest is instead placed on locations in the staging area, divided as you choose.
Forced: At the end of the quest phase, if there are any locations in play, deal 1 damage to all characters in play. If there are no locations in play, the players have escaped Carn Dûm, and win the game.
Attach to a location in the staging area.
Progress from questing successfully may be placed on the attached location before it is placed on the current quest.
Calphon bursts into one of the heroes’ quarters in the middle of the night, sweating profusely and breathing heavily. “I saw it again!” he cries. “It was the same island as before, only the sun was rising behind it, bathing the sky in orange. It must be to the east!” You can change course to follow Calphon’s vision, but you risk being discovered by the Corsairs chasing you...
When Revealed: Search the encounter deck and discard pile for 1 copy of Scouting Ship and add it to the staging area. Shuffle the encounter deck.
While you are off-course (
, 
, or 
), each Ship enemy gains Boarding 1.
When this stage is defeated, if you are on-course (
), look at the top 2 stages of the quest deck and advance to one of your choice, placing the other on the bottom of the quest deck. Otherwise, advance to the top stage of the quest deck.
Attach to an ally.
Attached ally does not exhaust to quest.
–The Hobbit
Urdug commits the last of his reserves to the attack. Weary as you are from fighting so long, you reel at this fresh assault.
When Revealed: Shuffle the encounter discard pile into the encounter deck and discard cards from the top until X enemies are discarded, where X is the number of players in the game. Add those enemies to the staging area.
Your saga through Rhovanion has reached its final test. If you fail, the Goblins of Gundabad will reestablish themseleves as a threat to the North and all your achievements will be for naught. The fate of Wilderland is in your hands.
Forced: At the end of the round, place 1 progress on the Goblins' Assault for each enemy in play. Then, if there is X or more progress on The Goblins' Assault, the players lose the game. X is equal to 8, plus 8 per player.
You have reached the great hall inside Dol Rhugar. There you find Ulchor, Thane of Nurn, waiting for you. "You arrogant fools!" he says, rising to his full height. "You have pursued me all this way only to die here where my power is at its strongest!"
When Revealed: Reveal the top card of The Power of Mordor deck. Shuffle the encounter discard pile into the encounter deck. Thane Ulchor makes an immediate attack against each player in turn order.
Ulchor strikes at you with undeniable power, but you hold your ground. You will either see him finally brought low, or die valiantly in the attempt.
Encounter card effects cannot be canceled.
The number of damage tokens on Than Ulchor cannot exceed the number of progress tokens here.
When Thane Ulchor is defeated, the players win the game.
When Revealed: Starting with the first player, each player must choose 1 Goblin enemy from the discard pile and add it to the staging area.
Shadow: Defending player deals damage among characters he controls equal to the number of Goblin enemies engaged with him.
Action: Choose a Hobbit character. That character gets +2 , +2 , and +2 until the end of the phase.
"I have something to do before the end, and it lies ahead, not in the Shire. I must see it through, sir, if you understand me." –Sam Gamgee, The Fellowship of the Ring
You made it across the Anduin and are leaving Osgiliath when a fell shriek splits the air. You begin the race across the Pelennor Fields to the safety of Minas Tirith, but a new enemy follows behind.
When Revealed: Add The Witch-king to the staging area.
Players have now crossed the Anduin. Players cannot travel to East Bank locations.
If the players defeat this stage, they have won the game.
X is 1 more than the number of enemies in play.
Travel: Each player engages an enemy in the staging area to travel here.
"...the Men of Westernesse were diminished, and their city of of Annúminas beside lake Evendim fell into ruin..."
–Elrond, The Fellowship of the Ring
Alone and without your equipment, you steel yourself and being to search for your companions and belongings.
When Revealed: Search the encounter deck for 1 copy of Prison Cell, reveal it, and add it to your staging area. Then capture an additional 2 cards from the top of your captured deck underneath that copy of Prison Cell.
Any time players would place progress on this quest, resuce an equal number of captured cards at random from underneath it instead. (Progress is placed on the active location before triggering this effect.)
Forced: If there are no captured cards underneath Gornákh's Dungeons, join another player at the beginning of the travel phase. If you cannot join another player, all players advance to stage 3A together.
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Forced: After Grishn kh enters play, the first player attached 1 of the Captives to him. If Grishn kh is defeated, place the attached Captive faceup underneath To Isengard!
Forced: At the end of the quest phase, deal 1 damage to the attached Captive.
Travel: The first player must exhaust 1 character he controls to travel here.
Shadow: Defending player must choose and exhaust 1 character he controls.
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Forced: After 1 or more captured cards are rescued, Jailor Gornákh engages the player with the highest threat and makes an immediate attack.
"Come on now! We've talked enough. Let's go and have a look at the prisoner!"
–Shagrat, The Two Towers
When Revealed: Each player chooses one of his allies and captures it underneath the encounter card with the highest .
Shadow: If this attack would damage an ally, capture that ally underneath the attacking enemy instead.
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Forced: After Grishn kh enters play, the first player attached 1 of the Captives to him. If Grishn kh is defeated, place the attached Captive faceup underneath To Isengard!
Forced: At the end of the quest phase, deal 1 damage to the attached Captive.
While Stairs of N in is in the staging area, the first treachery revealed each round gains surge and its 'when revealed' effects cannot be canceled.
Forced: When Stairs of N in is explored, raise each player's threat by 4.
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Forced: After Jailor Gorn kh enters playt each player searches his captured deck for each hero and captures thme underneath Jailor Gorn kh.
Forced: After a player rescues any number of cards, Jailor Gorn kh attacks that player.
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Cannot have non-Morgul attachments.
Forced: When Ringwraith attacks, deal it an additional shadow card if The One Ring is exhausted.
Shadow: Shuffle this card into the encounter deck.
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Cannot have non-Morgul attachments.
Forced: When Ringwraith attacks, deal it an additional shadow card if The One Ring is exhausted.
Shadow: Shuffle this card into the encounter deck.
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
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Setup: Add Wraith on Wings to the staging area.
Cannot have non-Morgul attachments.
Wraith on Wings gets +1 and -1 enagement cost for each resource on it.
Forced: At the beginning of the quest phase, place 1 resource on Wraith on Wings (Limit 5 resources.)
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Immune to player card effects.
Cannot be optionally engaged or take damage.
Forced: At the beginning of the quest phase, discard cards from the encounter deck until an enemy is discarded. Add the discarded enemy to the staging area.
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Forced: When Unspeakable Thing enages a player or attacks a player, attach the top card of that player's deck to it.
X is the printed cost of all attached cards on this card. If there are no cards attached, X is 5.
You are playing Campaign Mode.
Setup: Attach Black Key (boon) to Captain Sahír. Shuffle Revenant into the encounter deck. Each player may choose one copy of Command and add it to their hand. For this game, X is plus 1 for each of those copies.
One player may choose one copy of Círdan's Blessing and add it to their hand. For each character in play, its controller may deal 1 damage to it to reduce their threat by 1.
Resolution: Add each copy of Command and Círdan's Blessing chosen during setup to the Campaign Pool.
Gain the following:
• 1 XP for each surviving player.
• 1 XP for each resource on this card (to a maximum of 3 XP).
• 1 XP if Na'asiyah has 5 or more resources.
• 1 XP if no enemies are in play.
• 1 XP if 5 or more Underwater locations are in the victory display.
• 2 XP if Shrine to Morgoth (Grotto side) is in the victory display.
• 1 XP if each surviving player's threat is 40 or less.
• -1 XP if Ominous Fate is in the victory display.
"I knew we shouldn't have trusted him!" one of the heroes exclaims. "That fleabag is rotten to the core!"
"Don't worry," another replies. "We're not through with him. Captain Sahír's fate is entwined with our destiny."
Strider has led Frodo and his companions to Weathertop where he hopes to meet Gandalf. Instead, they find the Black Riders waiting for them. As the sun goes down, the Nazgûl close in on their prey.
When Revealed: Add Weathertop and The Witch-king to the staging area. Search the encounter deck and discard pile and add each Nazgûl enemy found to the staging area. Shuffle the encounter deck.
If there are no Nazgûl enemies in play, the players win the game.
There were five tall figures: two standing on the lip of the dell, three advancing. In their white faces burned keen and merciless eyes; under their mantles were long grey robes; upon their grey hairs were helms of silver; in their haggard hands were swords of steel. Their eyes fell on him and pierced him, as they rushed towards him. Desperate, he drew his own sword...
–The Fellowship of the Ring
Having barely escaped from Moria, the Company of the Ring flees into the forest of Lórien where they are welcomed by the Elves of the Golden Wood and supplied with boats and other gifts by their Lord and Lady, Celeborn and Galadriel. Then, after a brief rest, they set out upon the River Anduin.
Setup: Set Frodo's Choice, Seat of Seeing, and Parth Galen aside, out of play. Add The Argonath and Sarn Gebir to the staging area.
Enemies get +2 and cannot be engaged. Skip the encounter phase.
The players cannot advance while The Argonath is in play.
So the Company went on their long way, down the wide hurrying waters, borne ever southwards. Bare woods stalked along either bank, and they could not see any glimpse of the lands behind. –The Fellowship of the Ring
You are playing campaign mode.
Setup: Each player may change hero cards he controls without incurring the +1 threat penalty. Each player shuffles 1 copy of The Searching Eye into his deck. Remove each burden with the following burden set icons from the encounter deck and each player's deck: Helm's Deep, The Road to Isengard
"It's that Gollum! Snakes and adders! And to think that I thought that we'd puzzle him with our bit of a climb! Look at him! Like a nasty crawling spider on a wall." -Sam Gamgee, The Two Towers
Resolution: Each player must choose: either take a permanent +2 starting threat penalty, or earn 1 copy of The Searching Eye. Record each player's choice in the campaign log.
The marshes were at an end, dying away into dead peats and wide flats of dry cracked mud. The land ahead rose in long shallow slopes, barren and pitiless, towards the desert that lay at Sauron's gate.
–The Two Towers
When Revealed: Add Nazgûl of Minas Morgul and The White Bridge to the staging area.
You've delivered justice to the traitor Alcaron. You rush forward to help Lord Faramir, who is still struggling with his captors. Then another shrill crwy emanates from the city. It pierces your ears and chills your heart. With a dull clangor; the gates of Minas Morgul open. Mounted on a great black horse, a Nazgûl rides forth to claim Sauron's prize.
When Revealed: Reveal 1 card per player from the encounter deck and add it to the staging area.
Nazgûl of Minas Morgul cannot leave play unless destroyed.
If Nazgûl of Minas Morgul is defeated, the players have won the game.
Your meeting with Nalir is interrupted by a host of Orcs led by a man, Bellach. In the ensuing chaos, you manage to escape with the Dwarf but the Orcs pursue. Outnumbered, you must throw the Orcs off your trail if you hope to escape...
Setup: Set Bellach and The Crossing at Tharbad aside, out of play. Search the encounter deck for 1 copy of Spy From Mordor per player, and add them to the staging area. Make The Empty Mug the active location. The first player takes control of Nalir, as an ally. Shuffle the encounter deck.
Time 4. Forced: After the last time counter is removed from this quest, reduce each player's threat elmination level by 10 for the remainder of the game. Then, place 4 time counters on this stage.
Forced: After one or more progress is placed on this quest, cancell all progress and reduce each players threat by an equal amount.
When all players have 0 threat, immediately proceed to stage 2.
A final scream fills the dreadful halls of Carn Dûm, and you suspect the worst. As you enter the site of Daechanar's dark ritual, your fears come to life. Iârion stands before you, cracking his neck and gripping the blade at his side tightly, as though testing his muscles. Only it isn't him.
When Revealed: Add Daechanar to the staging area. Make Altar of Midwinter the active location, returning any previously active location to the staging area. Each player reanimates the top card of his deck.
Daechanar, in the body of your ally Iârion, laughs wickedly. Despair and frustration are the only thoughts that enter your mind. In the end, you were too late to stop this cruel fate. "Finally! Yes, this body will do nicely." the wraith wearing the guise of your friend muses. He draws his blade.
Reanimated Dead are Undead enemies with 2 , 2 , 2 and 2 hit points.
When Daechanar is defeated, advance to the next stage.
Your deck cannot include ally cards.
Each of your heroes can have 1 additional restricted attachment. Reduce the cost of the first restricted attachment you play on each of your heroes each round by 1.
Refresh Action: If each of your heroes has at least 2 restricted attachments, flip this card over.
"...we that remain cannot forsake our companions while we have strength left."
–Aragorn, The Two Towers
Each of your heroes can have 1 additional restricted attachment and gets +1 for each restricted attachment on it.
Action: Exhaust this card to heal 1 damage from each of your heroes.
"With hope or without hope we will follow the trail of our enemies. And woe to them, if we prove the swifter!"
–Aragorn, The Two Towers
Strider has led Frodo and his companions to Weathertop where he hopes to meet Gandalf. Instead, they find the Black Riders waiting for them. As the sun goes down, the Nazgûl close in on their prey.
When Revealed: Add Weathertop and The Witch-king to the staging area. Search the encounter deck and discard pile and add each Nazgûl enemy found to the staging area. Shuffle the encounter deck.
If there are no Nazgûl enemies in play, the players win the game.
There were five tall figures: two standing on the lip of the dell, three advancing. In their white faces burned keen and merciless eyes; under their mantles were long grey robes; upon their grey hairs were helms of silver; in their haggard hands were swords of steel. Their eyes fell on him and pierced him, as they rushed towards him. Desperate, he drew his own sword...
–The Fellowship of the Ring
Having barely escaped from Moria, the Company of the Ring flees into the forest of Lórien where they are welcomed by the Elves of the Golden Wood and supplied with boats and other gifts by their Lord and Lady, Celeborn and Galadriel. Then, after a brief rest, they set out upon the River Anduin.
Setup: Set Frodo's Choice, Seat of Seeing, and Parth Galen aside, out of play. Add The Argonath and Sarn Gebir to the staging area.
Enemies get +2 and cannot be engaged. Skip the encounter phase.
The players cannot advance while The Argonath is in play.
So the Company went on their long way, down the wide hurrying waters, borne ever southwards. Bare woods stalked along either bank, and they could not see any glimpse of the lands behind. –The Fellowship of the Ring
You are playing campaign mode.
Setup: Each player may change hero cards he controls without incurring the +1 threat penalty. Each player shuffles 1 copy of The Searching Eye into his deck. Remove each burden with the following burden set icons from the encounter deck and each player's deck: Helm's Deep, The Road to Isengard
"It's that Gollum! Snakes and adders! And to think that I thought that we'd puzzle him with our bit of a climb! Look at him! Like a nasty crawling spider on a wall." -Sam Gamgee, The Two Towers
Resolution: Each player must choose: either take a permanent +2 starting threat penalty, or earn 1 copy of The Searching Eye. Record each player's choice in the campaign log.
The marshes were at an end, dying away into dead peats and wide flats of dry cracked mud. The land ahead rose in long shallow slopes, barren and pitiless, towards the desert that lay at Sauron's gate.
–The Two Towers
Setup: Each player may trade heroes without incurring a threat penalty. The first player may raise each player's threat by 1 to search his deck for Anduril and add it to his hand. Remove each burden with these burden set icons from the encounter deck: A Shadow of the Past, Flight to the Ford, The Ring Goes South, The Passage of the Marshes, Shelob's Lair
"...there is only one way through the mountains that will bring me to the coastlands before all is lost. That is the Paths of the Dead." –Aragorn, The Return of the King
Resolution: Add each copy of Overcome by Fear attached to a player's threat dial to the campaign pool and record the name of each player it was attached to. If Army of the Dead is in the victory display, add the Army of the Dead boon to the campaign pool. The players have earned each card added to the campaign pool
Then Aragorn said: "The hour is come at last. Now I go to Pelargir upon Anduin, and ye shall come after me. And when all this land is clean of the servants of Sauron, I will hold the oath fulfilled, and ye shall have peace and depart for ever. For I am Elessar, Isildur's heir of Gondor." –The Return of the King
Setup: Each player may change heroes he controls without incurring the +1 threat penalty. The first player may raise each player's threat by 1 to search his deck for Anduril and add it to his hand. Remove each burden with the following burden set icons from the encounter deck: A Shadow of the Past, Flight to the Ford, The Ring Goes South, The Passage of the Marshes, Shelob's Lair
They were come to the last end of their folly, and stood forlorn and chill in the grey light of early day before towers and walls which their army could not assault with hope...
–The Return of the King
Resolution: Record the number of resource tokens on The Black Gate in the notes section of the campaign log. If a Wraith on Wings is in the victory display, remove that copy from the campaign pool. If the first player controls Gwaihir, add him to the campaign pool. The players have earned that boon. If a hero is in its controller's discard pile, do not add that hero's name to the list of fallen heroes.
"So it ends as I guessed it would," his thought said, even as it fluttered away; and it laughed a little within him ere it fled, almost gay it seemed to be casting off at last all doubt and care and fear. And then even as it winged away into forgetfulness it heard voices, and they seemed to be crying in some forgotten world far above: "The Eagles are coming! The Eagles are coming!"
–The Return of the King
Setup: Create two separate staging areas: one for The Black Gate Opens and one for Mount Doom. Divide the players into 2 teams, one for each scenario. No more than 4 players can be assigned to each scenario and the number of players assigned to Mount Doom cannot be more than the number of assigned to The Black Gate Opens. Shuffle 1 copy of In Darkness Bind Them into each encounter deck. Place The Eye of Sauron in the Mount Doom staging area with its correspdonding side faceup. Flip this card over and set it next to the Mount Doom quest deck.
Ignore the Forced effect on the Mount Doom campaign card if it is in play.
Forced: At the end of the round, the first player chooses a scenario (The Black Gate Opens or Mount Doom). Each player at the chosen scenario draws 1 card. Each player at the other scenario reduces his threat by 3. Then, the player who controls the Gwaihir objective-ally may give control of it to another player (at either scenario).
At the end of the round, if the last player at either scenario is defeated, both teams lose the game. If the Mount Doom scenario is defeated, both teams win the game.
"His eye is now straining towards us, blind almost to all else that is moving. So we must keep it. Therein lies all our hope."
–Gandalf, The Return of the King
When Revealed: Add Naurlhûg and Naurlhûg’s Lair to the staging area. Shuffle the Sword of Belegost, and the encounter discard pile into the encounter deck.
After fleeing the breaking of Thangorodrim, the great worm Naurlhûg hid itself in the ruins of Belegost. The fire dragon hoarded the wealth it found there into a giant, golden bed at the center of a large, underground lake. If you wish to claim the treasure for yourself, then you must slay Naurlhûg.
While Naurlhûg's Lair is in the victory display, Naurlhûg loses the text: "Cannot take damage."
Forced: After Naurlhûg attacks, if it was dealt a shadow card with no shadow effect, it engages the next player. Then, it makes an immediate attack. Do not deal it a shadow card for this attack.
When Naurlhûg is defeated, the players win the game.