Action: Exhaust Gléowine to choose a player. That player draws 1 card.

Then the Riders of the King's House upon white horses rode round about the barrow and sang together a song of Théoden Thengel's son that Gléowine his minstrel made...
–The Return of the King

Action: Choose a character. Heal all damage from that character.

"...understanding, making and healing...These things the Elves of Middle–earth have in some measure gained, though with sorrow."
–Elrond, The Fellowship of the Ring

Action: Choose a player. That player draws 3 cards.

"That is the fairest of all the dwellings of my people. There are no trees like the tress of that land."
–Legolas, The Fellowship of the Ring

Quest Action: Choose an enemy in the staging area. Until the end of the phase, that enemy does not contribute its

"Radagast is, of course, a worthy Wizard, a master of shapes and changes of hue; and he has much lore of herbs and beasts, and birds are especially his friends." –Gandalf, The Fellowship of the Ring

Quest Action: Choose a location in the staging area. Until the end of the phase, that location does not contribute its

...Beorn advised them to take this way; for at a place a few days' ride due north of the Carrock was the gate of a little–known pathway through Mirkwood... –The Hobbit

Action: Look at the top X cards of any player's deck, add 1 of those cards to its owner's hand, and return the rest to the top of the deck in any order.

"Less welcome did the Lord Denethor show me then than of old, and grudgingly he permitted me to search among his hoarded scrolls and books."
–Gandalf, The Fellowship of the Ring

Action: Choose a player. Heal all damage on each hero controlled by that player.

"...and my house is open to you, if ever you come back this way again."
–Beorn, The Hobbit

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

Attach to a hero.

Action: Discard a card from your hand to give attached hero +1 or +1 until the end of the phase. Limit 3 times per phase.

'Speak no evil of the lady Galadriel!' said Aragorn sternly. 'There is in her and in this land no evil, unless a man bring it hither himself. Then let him beware.'
–The Fellowship of the Ring

Attach to a hero. Attached hero gets -1

Response: Exhaust Dark Knowledge to look at 1 shadow card that was just dealt to an enemy attacking you.

'Go on then!' said Frodo. 'What do you know?'
'Too much; too many dark things,' said Strider grimly.
–The Fellowship of the Ring

Attach to a character.

Action: Exhaust Self Preservation to heal 2 points of damage from attached character.

...how much more of this would they have to endure, or could they endure?
–The Two Towers

At the end of the round, discard Gandalf from play.

Response: After Gandalf enters play, (choose 1):

• draw 3 cards
• deal 4 damage to 1 enemy in play
• reduce your threat by 5.

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.)

Forced: After Hummerhorns engages you, deal 5 damage to a single hero you control.

Shadow: Deal 1 damage to each character the defending player controls. (2 damage 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.

Excess combat damage dealt by Hill Troll (damage that is dealt beyond the remaining hit points of the character damaged by its attack) must be assigned as an increase to your threat.

"Mutton yesterday, mutton today, and blimey, if it don't look like mutton again tomorrow."
–Troll, The Hobbit

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: Each time Marsh Adder attacks you, raise your threat by 1.

Under the boughs of Mirkwood there was deadly strife of Elves and Men and fell beasts.
–The Fellowship of the Ring

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.)

Chieftain Ufthak get +2 for each resource token on him.

Forced: After Chieftain Ufthak attacks, place 1 resource token on him.

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

Forced: If Dungeon Jailor is in the staging area after the players have just quested unsuccessfully, shuffle 1 unclaimed objective card from the staging area back into the encounter deck.

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

Guarded. Restricted.

Action: Raise your threat by 2 to claim this objective when it is free of encounters. When claimed, attach Gandalf's Map to a hero you control. (Counts as an attachment. If detached, return Gandalf's Map to the staging area.)

Attached hero cannot attack or defend.

Guarded. Restricted.

Action: Raise your threat by 2 to claim this objective when it is free of encounters. When claimed, attach Dungeon Torch to a hero you control. (Counts as an attachment. If detached, return Dungeon Torch to the staging area.)

Forced: At the end of each round, raise attached hero's controller's threat by 2.

Guarded. Restricted.

Action: Raise your threat by 2 to claim this objective when it is free of encounters. When claimed, attach Shadow Key to a hero you control. (Counts as an attachment. If detached, return Shadow Key to the staging area.)

Forced: At the end of each round, attached hero suffers 1 damage.

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.)