







While Morris is engaged with a player, all Troll enemies get +1
Response: After defeating Morris, you may choose and discard 1 “Sacked!” card from play.


Immune to player card effects.
Players cannot travel to The Carrock except through quest card effects.
While The Carrock is the active location, Troll enemies get +1 and +1






While Knees of the Mountain is in the staging area, it gains:
Forced: After an enemy engages a player, it gets +1until the end of the round.






When Revealed: Durin's Bane gets +3 until the end of the round. The first player may remove 1 questing hero he controls from the quest to cancel the effect.

Shadow: If attacking enemy is Durin's Bane, it gets +3 .

When Revealed: Attach Fiery Sword to Durin's Bane as a Weapon attachment with the text:
Attached enemy gets +3.
In its right hand was a blade like a stabbing tongue of fire...
–The Fellowship of the Ring







When Revealed: Until the end of the round, Morgul Spider gets +1 for each character not currently committed to a quest.
Far and wide her lesser broods, bastards of the miserable mates, her own offspring, that she slew, spread from glen to glen... –The Two Towers





Forced: When Orc Rabble is dealt a shadow card, it gets +2 until the end of the phase.

Shadow: Deal the attacking enemy an additional shadow card for each player in the game.





Underworld Dissident gets +1 for each Underworld location in play.

Shadow: If this attack is undefended, remove 1 token from the current quest.





While engaged with a player, Southron Phalanx gets +1 for each location that player controls.

Shadow: Attacking enemy gets +1 for each location the defending player controls.


While Gap of Rohan is in the staging area, Dunland enemies get +1

Shadow: Attacking enemy gets +1 . If this attack destroys a character, remove 1 time counter from the current quest.









Cannot have attachments.
Spirit of the Wild gets +1 and +1
for each Key objectives the players control.

Shadow: Attacking enemy gets +1 for each Key objective the players control.

When Revealed: The first player either removes 1 time counter from the current quest or each enemies gets -20 engagement cost and +1 until the end of the round.

Shadow: Attacking enemy gets +1 (+2
instead if the defending player's threat is 20 or less).





Cannot have attachments.
Ancient Marsh-dweller gets +1 and +1
for each resource token on it.
Forced: After any number of time counters are removed from the current quest, place a resource token here.





Forced: When Baleful Shade attacks, the defending player discards the top card of his deck. If the discarded card is an ally, Baleful Shade gets +2 for this attack.

Shadow: Exhaust a character you control.

Each Orc enemy gets +1 +1
and +1
.
When Revealed: Each player must search the encounter deck and discard pile for an Orc enemy and put it into play engaged with him. Shuffle the encounter deck.
Several Orcs spring upon you from their hiding place! Their surprise attack puts you on the defensive. You must fight to gain the upper hand.






While it is Night, Wolf of Angmar gets +2

Shadow: Attacking enemy gets +1 (+2
instead if it is Night).


Doomed 3.
When Revealed: Until the end of the round, each enemy gets -10 engagement cost and +1 . If there are no enemies in play, search the encounter deck and discard pile for an enemy and add it to the staging area.






Ruthless Hill-troll gets +2 and +2
while it has 3 or more damage on it.

Shadow: Shuffle 1 location with the safe keyword (but not its attached encounter) back into the encounter deck.

Action: Exhaust Amarthiรบl or a hero to claim Daechanarโs Brand. Then, attach Daechanarโs Brand to that character.
Attached character gets +1 while attacking Undead enemies.
When you touch this dark blade, you can feel a cursed power coursing through it. In Tengwar, the name "Daechanar" is inscribed upon its handle.





Cannot have attachments.
Daechanar gets +1 for each Sorcery card in play, and gains indestructible while at least 1 Sorcery card is in play.
Forced: When Daechanar is damaged, if there is at least 1 Sorcery card in play, cancel all damage just dealt and remove a Sorcery card from the game.






Forced: When Servant of the Deceiver engages you, look at the top card of your deck. If its printed cost is 2 or less, place it on the bottom of your deck and Servant of the Deceiver gets +2 until the end of the round.





Cunning Pirate gets +1 and +1
for each resource on it.
Forced: When Cunning Pirate engages you, discard an attachment you control and place resources on Cunning Pirate equal to that attachment's printed cost.





Umbar Raider gets +1 for each resource on it.
Forced: After Umbar Raider attacks you, move 1 resource from one of your heroesโ resource pools to Umbar Raider.
“And there men of Lamedon contested the fords with fell folk of Umbar and Harad who had sailed up the river.”
–Legolas, The Return of the King





Naโasiyah engages the last player.
Forced: When Naโasiyah engages you, discard each event in your hand. Add 1 resource to Naโasiyah for each event discarded in this way.
Forced: When Naโasiyah attacks or defends, she gets +1 and +1
for this attack for each resource on her. After this attack, discard 1 resource from her.







While Parched Wadi is in the staging area, each Creature enemy gets +1 and +1
Forced: After Parched Wadi becomes the active location, shuffle the encounter discard pile into the encounter deck and discard cards from the top until a Creature enemy is discarded. Add that enemy to the staging area.

When Revealed: Discard cards from the encounter deck until a Harad enemy is discarded. Add that enemy to the staging area and place a resource token on it. That enemy is "the Champion." While this stage is in play, the Champion gets +2 +2
+2
and gains: Immune to player card effects. The main quest stage cannot be defeated while the Champion is in play."
The champion cannot take damage unless there are at least 4 progress tokens here. This stage cannot be defeated while the champion is in play.











Cannot leave the staging area or take damage. X is the stage number of the main quest.
The Black Serpent gets +X +X
and +X
Forced: At the end of the encounter phase, either remove X progress from the main quest, or The Black Serpent makes an immediate attack against the first player.









While Hobgoblin is guarding a card, it gets +X +X
and +X
where X is that card's cost.
Forced: After Hobgoblin enters play, the first player attaches the top card of his deck to Hobgoblin faceup as a guarded attachment. When Hobgoblin leaves play, return the card it was guarding to its owner's hand.







Cannot have non-objective attachments.
Fram's Shade gets +1 +1
and +1
for each Loot objective the players control.
When Fram's Shade is dealt shadow cards, deal it a number of shadow cards equal to the number of Loot objectives the players control (to a minimum of 1).

Attach to a hero. Restricted.
Attached hero gets +1 .
If attached hero leaves play, the players lose the game.
...they tell that he slew Scatha, the great Dragon of Ered Mithrin, and the land had peace from the long-worms afterwards.
–The Return of the King

Attach to a hero. Restricted.
Attached hero gets +X , where X is 1 more than the number of quest cards in the victory display.
If attached hero leaves play, the players lose the game.
...they tell that he slew Scatha, the great Dragon of Ered Mithrin, and the land had peace from the long-worms afterwards.
–The Return of the King





Immune to player card effects. Cannot leave the staging area.
Forced: When Urdug attacks, discard the top card of the encounter deck. He gets +X for this attack, where X is the discarded card's printed
When Urdug is destroyed, the players win the game.





Guarded (enemy).
Attached enemy gets +1 +1
and +1
When Evidence of the Cult is free of encounters, add it to the victory display. Then, place 1 resource on the main quest.







Forced: After The Storehouse becomes the active location, add the enemy under it to the staging area. That enemy gets +3 and -30 engagement cost until the end of the round.
Forced: When The Storehouse is explored, the first player gains control of the objective ally it was guarding.








While The Troll's Camp is the active location, each hero gets +1 +1
and +1
"We are forgetting our family history! These must be the very three that were caught by Gandalf, quarrelling over the right way to cook thirteen dwarves and one hobbit."
–Frodo, The Fellowship of the Ring





While Postern Door is the active location, each hero gets +1
Forced: When Postern Door is explored, until the end of the round, players cannot declare attacks.
There was a small postern–door that opened in an angle of the burg–wall on the west, where the cliff stretched out to meet it. –The Two Towers




Immune to player card effects.
While The Cleft of Cirith Ungol is in the victory display, Shelob gets +2 loses the Indestructible keyword, and gains: "Shelob engages the first player."
Travel: Place 1 resource on Shelob to travel here.
The Cleft, Cirith Ungol, was before him, a dim notch in the black ridge... -The Two Towers



When Revealed: Attach to a Nazgรปl enemy. Limit 1 per enemy. (Counts as a Mount attachment with the text: "Attached enemy gets +1 +1
+1
and -10 engagement cost.Forced: At the end of the round, return attached enemy to the staging area.
...horrible as carrion–fowl yet greater than eagles, cruel as death. –The Return of the King


When Revealed: Either search the encounter deck, discard pile, and victory display for a Nazgรปl enemy and add it to the staging area, or attach Hell-hawk to a Nazgรปl enemy in play. (Counts as a Mount attachment with the text: "Limit 1 per enemy. Attached enemy gets +2 +2
+2
and is immune to play card effects.")




If unattached, the first player claims Sword of Belegost and attaches it to a hero he controls.
Attached hero gets +4
Response: Exhaust Sword of Belegost to cancel a shadow effect just triggered.


While Stone Ring is in the staging area, each Wight enemy engaged with a player gets +1 and +1
and applies the first sentence of its game text to each player at this stage as if it were engaged with him.
Stone rings grinned out of the ground like broken teeth in the moonlight. –The Fellowship of the Ring


Immune to player card effects.
While Chetwood Campsite is in the victory display, each Suspect gets +1 , +1
, and +1
.
Travel: Search the encounter deck and discard pile for a Chetwood Outlaw and add it to the staging area. Shuffle the encounter deck.


Surge.
When Revealed: Attach to a Brigand enemy without a copy of Hired Muscle attacked and return that enemy to the staging area. (Counts as a Condition attachment with the text: "Attached enemy gets +1 +1
+1
and gains:'Forced: When attached enemy is defeated, look at the bottom of the Investigation deck.'")





Indestructible. Immune to player card effects.
Forced: When Bane of Amon Lanc attacks you, discard a random card from your hand. Bane of Amon Lanc gets +X for this attack, where X is that card's printed cost.

When Revealed: The opposing team attaches Driven by Shadow to an enemy and returns it to the staging area. (Counts as a Condition attachment with the text: "Limit 1 per enemy. Attached enemy gets +2 +2
+2
and is immune to player card effects.") If there is no enemy in play, Driven by Shadow gains surge.
When Revealed: The opposing team attaches Denizen of the Deep to a non-unique enemy and returns it to the staging area. If there are no non-unique enemies in play, Denizens of the Deep gains surge. (Counts as Condition attachment with the text: "Attached enemy gets +1 +1
+1
and is immune to player card effects.)








Immune to player events.
While Morris is in the victory display, each Troll enemy gets +1 and gains "Immune to player events.".








Overseer Maurโl gets +X +X
and +X
where X is the highest number of resources on a Goblin enemy in play.
The Players cannot win the game unless Overseer Maurโl is in the victory display.








Mithril Seeker gets +1 for each resource on it.
Forced: When Mithril Seeker attacks, move 1 resource from each of the defending player's heroes to Mithril Seeker.
"Of what they brought to light the Orcs have gathered nearly all, and given it in tribute to Sauron, who covets it."
–Gandalf, The Fellowship of the Ring




When Revealed: Attach Assassination to the hero with the highest threat cost. (Counts as a Plot attachment with the text: "Each enemy gets +1 Attached hero cannot be healed. Damage from undefended attacks and A Knife in the Back must be assigned to attached hero. If attached hero leaves play, the players lose the game.")








Your adversary Thaurdir will not let you interrupt his master's ritual. Only by fighting through his ranks of Orcs can you hope to do battle with the wraith himself.
Battle.
Thaurdir gets +2 +2
and cannot take damage.


Each Undead enemy gets +1 and +1
Forced: After Desecrated Grounds is flipped over while active, deal 1 damage to each exhausted character.
Uncharted.
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.









Great Shark gets +1 +1
and +1
for each Underwater location in the victory display.
Great Shark cannot be engaged or damaged unless the active location is Underwater.
Forced: At the beginning of the encounter phase, return Great Shark to the staging area unless the active location is Underwater.



When Revealed: Attach We Hates Is! to Gollum. (Counts as a Condition attachment with the text: "If the players are on stage 3, Gollum gets +2
Riddle: The first player names a Trait, shuffles his deck, and discards the top card. For each card that has at least 1 matching Trait, place 1 progress on stage 2.




While Fortress of Isengard is in the staging area, each Orc enemy gets +1 +1
and +1
Wizardry: Return the topmost enemy in the encounter discard pile to the staging area.
This was the stronghold of Saruman, as fame reported it; for within living memory the men of Rohan had not passed its gates...
–The Two Towers
