Forced: At the end of the round, discard the top card of each player's deck. Each player must reanimate each ally discarded by this effect.
Travel: Deal 1 shadow card to each Undead enemy in play to travel here.
He could see nothing but the dim flame of the torches; but if the company halted, there seemed and endless whisper of voices all about him...
–The Return of the King
While Dark Halls is in the staging area, each Reanimated Dead gets +1 
and +1 
.
Shadow: If there is a copy of the defending character in your discard pile, reanimate it and deal it 1 shadow card.
Unholy Crypt gets +1 for each Reanimated Dead in play.
Shadow: if this attack destroys a character, reanimate that character and deal it 1 shadow card.
While Winding Caverns is the active location, each enemy gets +10 engagement cost.
When you travel from Winding Caverns to another location, you may travel to a location up to 3 locations away. (You must still pay that location's Travel cost in order to travel there.)
Cannot have player card attachments.
Forced: After Lost Island becomes the active location, flip it over.
Action: Remove 4 progress from Lost Island to look at its facedown side.
Shrine to Morgoth cannot have attachments and cannot enter the staging area.
Forced: At the beginning of the quest phase, flip Shrine to Morgoth to its Underwater side, without removing its progress tokens.
When Shrine to Morgoth is placed in the victory display, the players have escaped from the flooded grotto and win the game.
Shrine to Morgoth cannot have attachments and cannot enter the staging area.
Forced: If Shrine to Morgoth is the active location at the end of the quest phase, raise each player's threat by 5.
When Shrine to Morgoth is placed in the victory display, the players have escaped the flooded grotto and win the game.
While Undersea Grotto is the active location, reduce the cost of the first ally played by the players each round by 1.
Response: After you travel to Undersea Grotto you may flip it to its Underwater side.
Response: After you travel to Cursed Caverns, you may flip it to its Underwater side.
Response: After the players explore Cursed Caverns as the active location, each player may raise his threat by 2 to draw the bottom card of his deck.
While Water-logged Halls is the active location, each Undead enemy in play gets -1
Response: After you travel to Water-logged Halls, you may flip it to its Underwater side.
While Dark Abyss is the active location, characters cannot attack.
Forced: If Dark Abyss is the active location at the end of the quest phase, deal 1 damage to each character in play. Then, you may flip Dark Abyss to its Grotto side.
While Twisting Hollow is the active location, characters cannot ready from card effects.
Forced: If Twisting Hollow is the active location at the end of the quest phase, each player must discard 1 character. Then, you may flip Twisting Hollow to its Grotto side.
While Sunken Temple is the active location, treat each attachment as if its printed text box is blank (except for Traits).
Forced: If Sunken Temple is the active location at the end of the quest phase, discard 1 resource from each objective-ally an each hero's resource pool. Then, you may flip Sunken Temple to its Grotto side.
While Drowned Cave is the active location, Undead enemies cannot be engaged (return any engaged enemies to the staging area).
Forced: If Drowned Cave is the active location at the end of the quest phase, each player must discard the top 10 cards of his deck. Then, you may return Drowned Cave to the staging area.
Immune to player card effects.
Forced: After Spider Burrow becomes the active location, flip the Search objective to On Track and add Brood Mother to the staging area.
Forced: When Spider Burrow leaves play as an explored location, set Brood Mother aside, out of play (unless the players are at stage 3B).
X is the number of characters controlled by the first player.
Travel: Reveal the top card of the encounter deck to travel here.
Travel: Shuffle the encounter discard pile into the encounter deck and discard cards from the top until a Creature enemy is discarded. Add the discarded enemy to the staging area.
...a nasty, dirty, wet hole, filled with the ends of worms and an oozy smell...
–The Hobbit
While On Track is in play, Cobwebbed Cavern gets +2
Shadow: Exhaust a character you control.
While On Track is in play, progress cannot be placed on locations in the staging area.
Shadow: Discard an attachment you control.
Immune to player card effects.
Fire-drake cannot take damage.
Response: After Dragon Hoard becomes the active location, the first player chooses a player to attach an Artifact attachment from his hand to Dragon Hoard. That attachment gains the guarded (location) keyword. If that attachment has the printed guarded keyword, do not resolve it when the attachment enters play.
While Iron Hills Mine is the active location, it gains:"Response: When Iron Hills Mine is explored, each player may return 1 card from his discard pile to his hand."
Travel: Each player discards the top 4 cards of his deck to travel here.
Contested Depths gets +1 for each location in the victory display.
Forced: After the players travel to Contested Depths, either raise each player's threat by 1 for each location in the victory display, or discard Contested Depths and replace it with the top card of the Caves deck.
When faced with the option to travel, the players must travel to Deep Chasm if there is no active location.
The chasm was long and dark, and filled with the noise of wind and rushing water and echoing stone.
–The Fellowship of the Ring
While Dark Tunnel is in the staging area, progress cannot be placed on Dark locations in the staging area.
The tunnel seemed to have no end. All he knew was that it was going down pretty steadily...
–The Hobbit
Response: When you travel to Forked Passage (before resolving the deep keyword), raise each player's threat by 2 to look at the top 2 cards of the Caves deck. Put 1 on top of the Caves deck and put the other on the bottom. Then, add Forked Passage to the victory display.
Response: After Lost Armory becomes the active location, each player may search his deck for a Weapon or Armor attachment, add it to his hand, and shuffle his deck. Limit once per game for the group.
Behind him where the walls were nearest could dimly be seen coats of mail, helms and axes, swords and spears hanging...
–The Hobbit
Response: After Ancient Treasury becomes the active location, each player may (choose one): reduce his threat by 3, draw 2 cards, or add 1 resource to a hero's resource pool. Limit once per game for the group.
...there in rows stood great jars and vessels filled with a wealth that could not be guessed.
–The Hobbit
Forced: After Frightful Den becomes the active location, 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. Add each enemy discarded this way to the staging area.
Forced: After the players commit characters to the quest, discard cards from the encounter deck until a treachery is discarded. Resolve the `when revealed' effect on that treachery.
He did not go much further, but sat down on the cold floor and gave himself up to complete miserableness...
–The Hobbit
Forced: After Crumbling Cavern becomes the active location, each player assigns X damage among characters he controls, where X is the number of characters he controls.
...he was slipping – beginning to fall down, down, goodness knows where to.
–The Hobbit
X is the number of characters controlled by the player who controls the most characters.
Forced: After an ally enters player, exhaust it.
...without warning he trotted splash into water! Ugh! it was icy cold. That pulled him up sharp and short.
–The Hobbit
Immune to player card effects.
Forced: After The First Forge becomes the active location, exhaust the hero with Wormsbane attached. That hero cannot ready while The First Forge is the active location.
Response: After the First Forge is explored, flip Wormsbane to its Reforged side and attach it to any hero.
Forced: When Dagnir's Hoard is explored, Dagnir returns to the staging area and makes an immediate attack against each player in turn order.
Response: After Dagnir's Hoard is explored, each player may search his deck for an Item attachment, add it to his hand, and shuffle his deck.
Response: When Throat of the Mountain is explored, search the quest deck for a quest card and make it the current main quest. Then, flip it over. Shuffle the rest of the quest deck.
At the end of the hall the floor vanished and fell to an unknown depth.
–The Fellowship of the Ring
Dagnir gets -10 engagement cost.
Shadow: If attacking enemy is Dagnir, the defending player must assign X damage among characters he controls, where X is 1 more than the number of quest cards in the victory display.
When faced with the option to travel, the players must travel to Narrow Stair.
Shadow: Until the end of the round, defending character cannot be readied by player card effects.
Deep. While there are 3 or more quest cards in the victory display, Desecrated Ruins gets +2 .
Shadow: Attacking enemy gets +1 . If this attack destroys a character, each player discards a random card from his hand.
Forced: When Temple of Sauron leaves play, place 1 damage token on Tribute to Mordor.
Shadow: Attacking enemy gets +1 for each quest stage in the victory display.
X is 1 more than the number of quest stages in the victory display.
Forced: When Hall of Horrors leaves play, each player deals X damage to a character he controls.
...they had worshipped Sauron in the Dark Years.
–The Return of the King
When Revealed: Discard cards from the top of the encounter deck until an enemy is discarded. Add that enemy to the staging area.
Shadow: Discard the top card of the encounter deck. If that card is an enemy, add it to the staging area.
While Narrow Opening is the active location, each player cannot play more than 1 card each round.
Forced: When Narrow Opening leaves play, each player discards 1 random card from his hand.
"I got stuck in the door, which was only open a crack, and I lost lots of buttons..."
–Bilbo, The Hobbit
When Revealed: Make Crumbling Passage the active location, returning any previously active location to the staging area.
Forced: When Crumbling Passage leaves play, deal 1 damage to each exhausted character.
...at that moment a stone hurtling from above smote heavily on his helm, and he fell with a crash and knew no more.
–The Hobbit
X is 1 more than the number of quest cards in play.
Forced: When Fiery Chasm is explored, discard the top X cards of your deck.
...its floor and walls on either side were cloven by a great fissure, out of which the red glare came, now leaping up, now dying down into darkness...
–The Return of the King
When Revealed: Each player places the top 3 cards of his deck facedown under Hideous Deeps.
Forced: When Hideous Deeps is explored as the active location, shuffle each facedown card under it into its owner's deck.
While Orc Passage is in the staging area, encounter card effects cannot be canceled.
Forced: When Orc Passage is explored, search the encounter deck and discard pile for a copy of Torech Gorgor Patrol and add it to the staging area.
While Great Hall is the active location, it gains: "Forced: Put 1 progress on Smaug the Golden at the end of each round."
Burgle: The first player shuffles his deck and reveals the top card. He may discard 3 cards from his hand that match the revealed card's type.
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