Forced: When Eregion is explored, the players, as a group, must discard X allies from play. X is the number of damage here.
Shadow: Defending player discards a non-objective attachment he controls.
When Revealed: Place 3 damage on each active location.
Shadow: Undefended damage from this attack must be assigned to the active location.
"I think they are spying out the land." –Aragorn, The Fellowship of the Ring
When Revealed: Attach to the active location. (Countss as a Condition attachment with the text, "Limit 1 per location. No more than 3 progress can be placed on attached location each round.") If Snowdrifts is not attached to the active location, it gains surge.
Soon even Boromir found it hard to keep going. –The Fellowship of the Ring
When Revealed: Each player must choose: either discard each ally he controls, or raise his threat by 1 for each ally he controls.
Shadow: Attacking enemy makes an additional attack after this one.
Attach to a Hobbit hero.
Attached hero gets +1 
+1 
and +1 
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Response: After attached hero exhausts to defend an attack, discard the top card of the encounter deck. Deal damage to the attacking enemy equal to the discarded card's .
Attach to the Ring-bearer.
Attached hero gets +1 and +1 hit point.
"I should feel happier if I knew you were wearing it. I have a fancy it would turn even the knives of the Black Riders..." –Bilbo, The Fellowship of the Ring
Attach to a Warrior hero or Gandalf. Restricted.
Attached character gets +2 .
Response: After attached character destroys an Orc enemy, draw 1 card.
"...at his side was the elven–sword Glamdring, the mate of Orcrist that lay now upon the breast of Thorin under the Lonely Mountain." –The Fellowship of the Ring
Attach to a Noble hero or Aragorn. Restricted.
Attached hero gets +1 +1 and +1 .
Response: After an attack in which the attached hero defended resolves, exhaust Andúril to target the enemy that just attacked. Declare attached hero as an attacker against that enemy (and resolve the attack).
You are playing in Campaign Mode.
Setup: Shuffle the burder treachery cards Pursued by the Enemy and Shadow of Fear into the encounter deck. Add the burden objective cards Grievous Wound and Overcome by Grief to the staging area.
"Well, well!" said the wizard. "The passage is blocked behind us now and there is only one way out – on the other side of the mountains." –The Fellowship of the Ring
Resolution: The first player must choose one of the burden treachery cards (Pursued by the Enemy or Shadow of Fear), and one of the burden objective cards (Grievous Wound or Overcome by Grief) and add to the Campaign Pool. If The Balrog is still in play, the first player must choose all 4 burden cards instead. The chosen burdens have been earned by the players.
They ran on. The light grew before them; great shafts pierced the roof. They ran swifter. They passed into a hall, bright with daylight from its high windows in the east. They fled across it. Through its huge broken doors they passed, and suddenly before them the Great Gates opened, an arch of blazing light. –The Fellowship of the Ring
Trapped inside the Mines of Moria, the Company of the Ring must find their way through many twisting passages to reach the eastern door. But with every step they take into the Mines, there is a growing sense of dread...
Setup: Set The Balrog, The Great Bridge, and Chamber of Mazarbul aside out of play. Add Doom Doom Doom to the staging area and place 10 damage tokens on it. Each player adds 1 different location to the staging area.
Forced: After a player optionally engages an enemy, remove 1 damage from Doom Doom Doom.
There were not only many roads to choose from, there were also in many places holes and pitfalls, and dark wells beside the path in which their passing feet echoed. –The Fellowship of the Ring
Then there came an echoing blast: a great horn was blown in the hall, and answering horns and harsh cries were heard further off. There was a hurrying sound of many feet. –The Fellowship of the Ring
When Revealed: Add Chamber of Mazarbul to the staging area.
If there are no enemies in the staging area at the beginning of the quest phase, the first player reveals an additional encounter card during the staging step.
The players cannot advance unless there are X resource tokens on this stage. X is the number of players times 3.
Forced: After an enemy is defeated, place 1 resource token on this stage.
The outer door could only be reached by a slender bridge of stone, without kerb or rail, that spanned the chasm with one curving spring of fifty feet. –The Fellowship of the Ring
When Revealed: Add The Great Bridge to the staging area. Each player reveals 1 encounter card and removes 1 damage token from Doom, Doom, Doom.
"Now for the last race!" said Gandalf. "If the sun is shining outside we may still escape. After me!" –The Fellowship of the Ring
No more than 5 progress can be placed on this stage each round.
The players cannot defeat this stage while The Great Bridge is in play. If the players defeat this stage, they win the game.
Forced: At the end of the quest phase, remove 1 damage token from Doom, Doom, Doom. Then, if there are no damage tokens here, add The Balrog to the staging area.
Forced: At the end of the quest phase, The Balrog makes an attack if it is in play.
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Cannot be optionally engaged. The Balrog and shadow cards dealt to The Balrog are immune to player card effects.
While in the staging area, The Balrog is considered to be engaged with the first player and only the first player can declare attackers against The Balrog.
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Cannot have attachments. Allies cannot defend against Orc-chieftain.
Forced: At the beginning of the encounter phase, Orc-chieftain engages the first player.
...he charged into the Company and thrust his spear straight at Frodo. –The Fellowship of the Ring
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Cannot have attachments.
For each point of excess damage dealt by Cave-troll (damage that is dealt beyond the remaining hit points of the character damaged by its attack) remove 1 progress from the current quest.
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When Revealed: Uruk from Mordor makes an immediate attack against the first player.
Shadow: Attacking enemy gets +1 If this attack destroys a character, attacking enemy makes an additional attack.
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X is the number of players in the game.
When Revealed: Assign X damage among characters you control.
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
While Ancient Guardroom is the active location, each enemy in play gets -1 .
Travel: Discard the top card of the encounter deck to travel here. Each player raises his threat by X, where X is the discarded card's .
When Revealed: Shuffle the encounter discard pile into the encounter deck and discard cards from the top of the encounter deck until X enemies are discarded. X is the number of players in the game. Add each enemy discarded this way to the staging area.
When Revealed: Each player assigns X damage among characters he controls. X is the number of exhausted characters he controls.
Shadow: Assign X damage among characters you control. X is the number of enemies engaged with you.
When Revealed: Remove a character you control from the quest and discard the top card of the encounter deck. If that character's printed is less than the discarded card's discard that character.
...it was long before Pippin could summon enough courage to leap... –The Fellowship of the Ring
When Revealed: Remove 1 damage token from Doom, Doom, Doom or The Balrog makes an attack, if able.
Shadow: If this attack destroys a character, reveal 1 card from the encounter deck.
Doomed 1. Surge.
When Revealed: Each enemy engaged with a player, and not in the staging area, makes an immediate attack.
Shadow: Attacking enemy makes an additional attack after this one.
Setup: Add Overcome by Grief to the staging area.
Forced: After a character is destroyed, if Overcome by Grief is unattached, attach to a hero. (Counts as a Condition attachment with the text:"Forced: After a character you control is destroyed, exhaust attached hero. Until the end of the round, attached hero cannot ready.")
Setup: Add Grievous Wound to the staging area.
"Forced: After a hero takes damage, if Grievous Wound is unattached, attach to that hero. (Counts as a Condition attachment with the text: "Forced: After attached hero exhausts, deal 1 damage to it.")
You are playing in Campaign Mode.
Setup: Starting with the first player, each player chooses 1 of the following boon cards: Phial of Galadriel, Three Golden Hairs, Lórien Rope, or Leaf-wrapped Lembas, and attaches it to a hero he controls. The chosen boon cards have been earned by the players. Shuffle Followed by Night and Ill Fate into the encounter deck.
"But this I will say to you: your Quest stands upon the edge of a knife. Stray but a little and it will fail, to the ruin of all." –Galadriel, The Fellowship of the Ring
Resolution: If Fallen into Evil is attached to a hero, add that hero to the list of Fallen Heroes in the Campaign Log.
The first player chooses either Followed by Night or Ill Fate to be added to the campaign pool. The chosen burden card has been earned by the players.
Each player chooses 1 hero he controls (other than the Ring-bearer or Aragorn) to be taken captive. Record the name of each "captive" in the Notes section of the Campaign Log.
I would have guided Frodo to Mordor and gone with him to the end; but if I seek him now in the wilderness, I must abandon the captives to torment and death. My heart speaks clearly at last: the fate of the Bearer is in my hands no longer. The Company has played its part. Yet we that remain cannot forsake our companions while we have strength left. Come! We will go now. Leave all that can be spared behind! We will press on by day and dark! –Aragorn, The Two Towers
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
The river has carried the Company as far as it can and the time has come for Frodo to choose which way to go. He asks for an hour to decide, but after he disappears Orcs are discovered prowling the woods and the Company scatters to find him...
When Revealed: Remove the Ring-bearer and each card attached to it, from the game (treat The One Ring's text as blank while resolving this effect). Reduce each enemy's engagement cost to 0 until the end of the encounter phase. Skip the travel phase this round.
Forced: At the end of the refresh phase, shuffle Seat of Seeing and Forod's Choice into the encounter discard pile. Then, place the encounter discard pile on the bottom of the encounter deck. Starting with the first player, each player creates his own staging area and advances to a different stage 3A of his choice. In player order, each player moves 1 encounter card from this staging area to his. When there are no encounter cards left at this stage, discard it.
Sam had dashed off first. Merry and Pippin had followed, and were already disappearing westward into the trees by the shore, shouting: Frodo! Frodo! in their clear, high hobbit–voices. –The Fellowship of the Ring
Forced: After stage 2B is discarded, if the total of the encounter cards in this staging area is less than 4, reveal 1 encounter card.
If Frodo's Choice is not in play, any time players would place progress on this quest, discard an equal number of cards from the encounter deck instead.
Forced: After Frodo's Choice is revealed at this stage, advance to stage 4A.
Response: After you quest successfully, discard a non-unique location in the staging area.
"Boromir! I do not know what part you have played in this mischief, but help now! Go after those two young hobbits, and guard them at the least, even if you cannot find Frod." –Aragorn, The Fellowship of the Ring
Forced: After stage 2B is discarded, if the total of encounter cards in this staging area is less than 4, reveal 1 encounter card.
If Frodo's Choice is not in play, any time players would place progress on this quest, discard an equal number of cards from the encounter deck instead.
Forced: After Frodo's Choice is revealed at this stage, advance to stage 4A.
Response: After you quest successfully, choose a player. Ready each of that player's heroes.
"I am going to the top, to the Seat of Amon Hen, to see what may be seen. And look! It is as my heart guessed, Frodo went this way. Follow me, and keep your eyes open!" –Aragorn, The Fellowship of the Ring
Forced: After stage 2B is discarded, if the total of encounter cards in this staging area is less than 4, reveal 1 encounter card.
If Frodo's Choice is not in play, any time players would place progress on this quest, discard an equal number of cards from the encounter deck instead.
Forced: After Frodo's Choice is revealed at this stage, advance to stage 4A.
Response: After you quest successfully, choose a player. That player draws 2 cards and lowers his threat by 2.
So it was that Legolas and Gimli found him. They came from the western slopes of the hill, silently, creeping through the trees as if they were hunting. Gimli had his axe in hand, and Legolas his long knife: all his arrows were spent. –The Two Towers
Forced: After stage 2B is discarded, if the total of encounter cards in this staging area is less than 4, reveal 1 encounter card.
If Frodo's Choice is not in play, any time players would place progress on this quest, discard an equal number of cards from the encounter deck instead.
Forced: After Frodo's Choice is revealed at this stage, advance to stage 4A.
Response: After you quest successfully, discard an enemy engaged with a player.
"Now, Sam," said Frodo, "don't hinder me! The others will be coming back at any minute. If they catch me here, I shall have to argue and explain, and I shall never have the heart of the chance to get off. But I must go at once. It's the only way." –The Fellowship of the Ring
When Revealed: Add Parth Galen to the staging area. If it is your quest phase, end the phase (do not resolve the quest).
During the quest phase, reveal 1 additional encounter card for each player in the game.
Response: After an enemy is revealed at this stage, raise your threat by X to engage that enemy. X is that enemy's Each player (at any stage) may trigger this ability once per round.
When this stage is defeated, the players win the game.
If Frodo's Choice is discarded, reveal it instead.
When Revealed: Take control of the first player token and the Ring-bearer (and each card attached to it). Attach to the Ring-bearer. For the rest of the game, you cannot lose control of the first player token.
"I will go alone." –Frodo, The Fellowship of the Ring
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Toughness 2. Cannot have attachments.
Allies with fewer printed hit points than Uruk-hai Captain cannot defend against Uruk-hai Captain.
Shadow: Attacking enemy makes an additional attack after this one.
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Peril. Toughness 1. Archery X.
X is the number of players at this stage.
When Revealed: Discard an ally you control.
...they had bows of yew, in length and shape like the bows of Men. –The Fellowship of the Ring
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Surge. Toughness 1. Archery 1.
Uruk-hai Tracker gets +2 against characters with 2 or fewer printed hit points.
Shadow: Discard a non-objective attachment you control.
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When Revealed: Either choose a player to reveal an additional encounter card, or Uruk-hai Hunter makes an immediate attack against you.
"I fear that the Orcs may already be on this side of the water." –Aragorn, The Fellowship of the Ring
Immune to player card effects.
Travel: Search the encounter deck and discard pile for an enemy and add it to the staging area to travel here. Shuffle the encounter deck.
While Parth Galen is in play, the players cannot win the game.
Immune to player card effects.
Response: When Seat of Seeing is explored, choose a burden card in play, in the encounter deck, or in the discard pile, and remove it from the game. Shuffle the encounter deck. (If you are playing campaign mode, remove that card from the campaign pool.)