When Revealed: Each location in the staging area gets +1 
until the end of the round. If the number of locations in the staging area is less than the number of players in the game, reveal an additional encounter card.
Shadow: Attacking enemy gets +X
where X is the active location's
Setup: Attach to the Ring-bearer.
Forced: At the end of the planning phase, either raise each player's threat by 1, or exhaust the Ring-bearer.
"It's heavy on me, Sam lad, very heavy. I wonder how far I can carry it?"
-Frodo Baggins, The Two Towers
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Cannot have non-Morgul attachments.
While The One Ring is exhausted, Morgul Wraith gets -30 engagement cost and gains: "Immune to player card effects."
"They see everything, everything. Nothing can hide from them." -Gollum, The Two Towers
When Revealed: The first player must choose: either search the encounter deck, discard pile, and victory display for a Nazgul enemy and add it to the staging area, or exhaust The One Ring and reveal the top card of the encounter deck.
Shadow: Attacking enemy makes an additional attack against you after this one.
When Revealed: Either flip Sméagol to Gollum, or Gollum makes an immediate attack. The first player may spend 1
resource and exhaust The One Ring to cancel this effect.
Shadow: Attacking enemy gets +1 (+3 instead if the attacking enemy is Gollum).
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Cannot have attachments or take more than 3 damage each round.
Forced: After Oliphaunt engages you, exhaust each ally you control.
Shadow: Attacking enemy gets +3
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Forced: After Haradrim Soldier engages you, it makes an immediate attack.
Shadow: Attacking enemy makes an additional attack against you after this one.
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Archery X. X is the number of players in the game.
Forced: After Haradrim Archer engages you, assign X damage among characters you control.
Shadow: Deal 1 damage to the defending character.
When Revealed: Make Blocked Tunnel the active location, returning any previous active location to the staging area.
Action: Exhaust a character with a Weapon attachment to place 3 progress on Blocked Tunnel. (Any player may trigger this effect.)
Across the width and height of the tunnel a vast web was spun, orderly as the web of some huge spider... -The Two Towers
When Revealed: Attach to a hero you control and exhaust that hero. (Counts as a Condition attachment with the text: "Limit 1 per hero. Treat attached hero's text box as blank, except for Traits. Attached hero cannot ready.")
Shadow: If attacking enemy is Shelob, resolve the 'When Revealed' effect on Shelob's Poison.
When Revealed: Shelob gets +2 until the end of the phase. Then, she makes an immediate attack against each player in turn order.
Shadow: If attacking enemy is Shelob, she makes an additional attack against you after this one.
Setup: The first player claims The One Ring and attaches it to the Ring-bearer.
Attached hero does not count against the hero limit. The first player gains control of attached hero.
If The One Ring leaves play, the players lose the game.
Frodo and Sam left the Fellowship above the falls of Rauros and crossed the great river to climb the Emyn Muil upon the Eastern shore. After days of wandering through that maze of rocky crags, they have finally reached the edge of the Dead Marshes only to discover that Gollum is following them.
Setup: Put Gollum into play engaged with the first player. Each player searches the encounter deck for 1 location, reveals it, and adds it to the staging area. Shuffle the encounter deck.
The players cannot advance unless the first player controls Sméagol.
Forced: After a player declares any number of attackers against Gollum discard the top card of the encounter deck. Gollum gets +X for this attack, where X is the discarded cardâs
Things would have gone ill with Sam, if he had been alone. But Frodo sprang up, and drew Sting from its sheath. âThe Two Towers
The Hobbits soon found that what had looked like one vast fen was really an endless network of pools, and soft mires, and winding half–strangled watercourses. Among these a cunning eye and foot could thread a wandering path. -The Two Towers
When Revealed: If the number of locations in the staging area is less than the number of players in the game, discard cards from the encounter deck until a location is discarded. Add the discarded location to the staging area.
Progress cannot be placed on locations in the staging area.
The players cannot advance unless the first player controls Sméagol and there are at least 4 locations in the victory display.
Forced: At the end of the staging step, if the number of locations in the staging area is less than the number of players in the game, reveal the top card of the encounter deck.
For a moment the water below him looked like some window, glazed with grimy glass, through which he was peering. Wrenching his hands out of the bog, he sprang back with a cry. "There are dead things, dead faces in the water," he said with horror. -The Two Towers
When Revealed: Each player searches the encounter deck and discard pile for an Undeadenemy and puts it into play engaged with him. Shuffle all locations in the victory display into the encounter deck.
While any player is engaged with an Undead enemy, progress cannot be placed on this stage.
The players cannot defeat this stage unless the first player controls Sméagol. If the players defeat this stage, they win the game.
Gollum laughed. "The Dead Marshes, yes, yes: that is their names," he cackled. "You should not look in when the candles are lit." âThe Two Towers
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
"These cursed Southrons come now marching up the ancient roads to swell the hosts of the Dark Tower. Yea, up the very roads that craft of Gondor made." -Mablung, The Two Towers
Setup: Add The Black Gate and The Cross-roads to the staging area. Shuffle the Harad encounter set and place it facedown under The Cross-roads. Each player, except for the first player, searches the encounter deck for a different non-unique location and adds it to the staging area. Shuffle the encounter deck.
Forced: At the beginning of the quest phase, reveal the top facedown card from under The Cross-roads and add it to the staging area.
The players cannot defeat this stage while The Cross-roads is in play. When The Cross-roads is explored, the players win the game.
"The road may pass, but they shall not!"
âMablung, The Two Towers
You are playing campaign mode.
Setup: Each player must choose: either add 1 resource to each of his heroes' pools, or shuffle 1 copy of Brace of Coneys 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
So they passed into the northern marches of that land that Men once called Ithilien, a fair country of climbing woods and swift–falling streams. -The Two Towers
Resolution: Each player who chose to shuffle a copy of Brace of Coneys into his deck during setup has earned that boon. Add each earned copy to the campaign pool. Record the name and quantity of each enemy underneath The Black Gate in the notes section of the campaign log.
"Here is the last parting of our ways," said Faramir.
"If you take my counsel, you will not turn eastward yet. Go straight on, for thus you will have the cover of the woodland for many miles." –The Two Towers
Sméagol has led Frodo and Sam to the Morgul Vale, where he promises to show them a secret way over the Mountains of Shadow and into the land of Mordor, but Sam fears that Gollum may be leading them into a trap...
Setup: Set Cleft of Cirith Ungol, Shelob and The Great Spider encounter set aside, out of play. Put Sméagol into play under the first player's control. Make Morgul Vale the active location. Add Sméagol's Secret Way to the staging area. Shuffle the encounter deck.
Progress cannot be placed on Underground locations.
Response: After Sméagol's Secret Way is explored, discard 3 random cards from each player's hand to discard each Nazgûl enemy in the staging area.
Forced: At the end of the quest phase, if Sméagol's Secret Way is in the victory display, advance to stage 2A.
Presently they were under the shadow, and there in the midst of it they saw the opening of a cave. "This is the way in," said Gollum softly. "This is the entrance to the tunnel." He did not speak its name: Torech Ungol, Shelob's Lair. -The Two Towers
When Revealed: Add Shelob to the staging area and shuffle all cards from The Great Spider encounter set and the encounter discard pile into the encounter deck.
Shelob cannot leave the staging area and Sméagol cannot attack or defend.
Each player cannot play, or put into play, more than 1 ally each round.
No more than 4 progress can be placed on this stage each round.
They had not gone more than a few yards when from behind them came a sound, startling and horrible in the heavy padded silence: a gurgling, bubbling noise, and a long venomous hiss. âThe Two Towers
"Got him!" hissed Gollum in his ear. "At last, my precious, we've got him, yet, the nassty hobbit. We takes this one. She'll get the other. O yes, Selob will get him, not SmĂ©agol: he promised; he won't hurt Master at all. But he's got you, you nassty filthy little sneak!" He spat on Sam's neck. –The Two Towers
When Revealed: Add Cleft of Cirith Ungol to the staging area. Flip Sméagol to Gollum and heal all damage from Shelob. Each player places 1 resource on Shelob.
If Gollum is defeated, add him to the victory display. (Do not flip him over.)
While Shelob has at least 1 resource on her, she gains:"Forced: When Shelob is dealt any amount of damage, cancel that damage and discard 1 resource from Shelob instead."
The players cannot defeat this stage unless both Shelob and Gollum are in the victory display. If the players defeat this stage, they win the game.
You are playing campaign mode.
Setup: Attach A Heavy Burden to the Ring-bearer. 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
"There is another way. O yes indeed there is. Another way, darker, more difficult to find, more secret. But Sméagolnknows it. Let Sméagol show you!" -The Two Towers
Resolution: Add a Heavy Burden to the campaign pool. The players have earned that burden.
"Master, dear master," he said, but Frodo did not speak. Ass hehad run forward, eager, rejoicing to be free, Shelob with hideous speed had come behind and with one swift stroke had stung him in the neck. He lay now pale, and heard no voice, and did not move.
–The Two Towers
