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.

X is the stage number of the quest.

Cannot take damage. Cannot have attachments.

Forced: After Goblin Chieftain attacks, either remove X progress from the quest, or return it to the staging area.

Attach to a hero. Restricted.

Action: Exhause Cave Torch to place up to 3 progress tokens on a Dark location.

Forced: After Cave Torch exhausts, discard the top card of the encounter deck. If that card is an enemy, add it to the staging area.

While Goblin Tunnels is in the staging area, it gains:"Forced: After a Goblin is revealed from the encounter deck, remove a progress token from the current quest card."

Shadow: Attacking enemy gets +1 (+3 instead if attacking enemy is a Goblin.)

While Branching Paths is in the staging area, each Dark location gets +1

Forced: After Branching Paths leaves play as an explored location, look at the top 3 cards of the encounter deck. Players must choose 1 of those to reveal and add to the staging area, moving the other 2 to the bottom of the deck.

When Revealed: The first player attaches Watchful Eyes to one of his heroes. (Counts as a Condition attachment with the text: "Limit 1 per hero.Forced: If attached hero is exhausted at the end of the combat phase, reveal 1 card from the encounter deck and add it to the staging area.")

Guarded.

Response: After the players quest successfully, the players may claim Signs of Gollum if it has no attached encounters. When claimed, attach Signs of Gollum to any hero committed to the quest. Counts as a Condition attachment with:

Forced: After attached hero is damaged or leaves play, return this card to the top of the encounter deck.

While Louis is engaged with a player, all Troll enemies gain

"Forced: After this enemy attacks, the defending player must raise his threat by 3."

Response: After defeating Louis, you may choose and discard 1 “Sacked!” card from play.

Forced: After Rupert attacks, shuffle all copies of the “Sacked!” card from the discard pile back into the encounter deck.

Response: After defeating Rupert, you may choose and discard 1 “Sacked!” card from play.

Forced: If Muck Adder damages a character, discard that character from play.

Shadow: Defending character gets -1 for the duration of this attack.

Forced: After traveling to The North Stair, move the top card of the encounter discard pile to the staging area. Resolve any "when revealed" effects on that card.

If Gollum ever has 8 or more resource tokens on him, shuffle him back into the encounter deck.

Forced: At the end of the quest phase, the party must make an escape test, dealing 1 card per player from the encounter deck. If this test is failed, place 2 resource tokens on Gollum.

Forced: Remove 2 damage from Giant Marsh Worm at the end of each round.

Escape: 2

"No birds here. There are snakeses, wormses, things in the pools. Lot of things, lots of nasty things."
–Gollum, The Two Towers

Forced: After the players travel to this location, place 1 resource token on Gollum for each location in the staging area.

Escape: 2

Surge.

Forced: After Mirkwood Bats engages a player, deal 1 damage to each character controlled by the player guarding Gollum.

Forced: At the beginning of the encounter phase, Attercop, Attercop automatically engages the player guarding Gollum, regardless of his threat.

"Attercop! Attercop! Won't you stop..."
–Bilbo Baggins, The Hobbit

Forced: Before Patrol Leader is dealt damage, discard the top card of the encounter deck. If the discarded card is an enemy, cancel that damage.

Shadow: Cancel all damage dealt to this enemy.

Immune to card effects.

Players cannot optionally engage enemies and no engagement checks are made.

Forced: After East-gate leaves play as an explored location, add First Hall to the staging area.

Travel: Each player must raise his threat by 3 to travel here.

Forced: After First Hall leaves play as an explored location, add Bridge of Khazad-dûm to the staging area.

Players cannot optionally engaged Goblin Archer.

Characters with ranged are eligible to attack Goblin Archer while it is in the staging area.

Forced: After an enemy is revealed from the encounter deck, the first player must deal 1 damage to 1 character he controls.

While Branching Paths is in the staging area, each Dark location gets +1 .

Forced: After Branching Paths leaves play as an explored location, look at the top 3 cards of the encounter deck. Players must choose 1 of those to reveal and add to the staging area, moving the other 2 to the bottom of the deck.

Attach to a hero. Restricted.

Action: Exhaust Cave Torch to place up to 3 progress on a Dark location.

Forced: After Cave Torch exhausts, discard the top card of the encounter deck. If that card is an enemy, add it to the staging area.

While Knees of the Mountain is in the staging area, it gains:

Forced: After an enemy engages a player, it gets +1 until the end of the round.

When Revealed: The first player attaches Watchful Eyes to one of his heroes. Counts as a Condition attachment with the text:

Limit 1 per hero. Forced: If attached hero is exhausted at the end of the combat phase, reveal 1 card from the encounter deck and add it to the staging area.

While Goblin Tunnels is in the staging area, it gains:

Forced: After a Goblin is revealed from the encounter deck, remove a progress token from the current quest card.

Shadow: attacking enemy gets +1 (+3 instead if attacking enemy is a Goblin.)

Allies cannot defend while Snow Warg is attacking.

Forced: After a character is declared as a defender against Snow Warg, deal 1 damage to the defending character, if able.

Forced: After at least 1 progress token in placed on Pathless Country, remove 1 progress token from it.

Shadow: Deal 1 damage to each ally in play.

Ambush (After this enemy enters play, each player makes an engagement check against it.)

Forced: After Goblin Taskmaster engages a player, that player deals 2 damage to 1 character he controls.

Ambush (After this enemy enters play, each player makes an engagement check against it.)

Forced: After Orc Raiders engages a player, that player discards 2 attachments he controls, if able.

Ambush (After this enemy enters play, each player makes an engagement check against it.)

Forced: After Wild Bear engages a player, it makes an immediate attack.

Forced: After you travel to Makeshift Passage, place 2 progress tokens on the current quest card, bypassing any active location.

They reached the strip of dry land between the lake and the cliffs: it was narrow, often hardly a dozen yards across, and encumbered with fallen rock and stones; but they found a way, hugging the cliff, and keeping as far from the dark water as they might.
–The Fellowship of the Ring

Forced: When Grasping Tentacle is attacked, discard the top card of the encounter deck. If that card has a shadow effect or is a Tentacle enemy, attach this card to an attacking character as a Tentacle attachment with the text: "Attached character's and are reduced to 0."

Forced: When Thrashing Tentacle is attacked, discard the top card of the encounter deck. If that card has a shadow effect or is a Tentacle enemy, deal the damage from the attack to 1 character an attacking player controls (ignoring defense).

Forced: When Striking Tentacle attacks, discard the top card of the encounter deck. If that card has a shadow effect or is a Tentacle enemy, this attack is considered undefended.

Forced: Before placing progress tokens on Twisting Passage, the first player must make a locate test. If this test is failed, do not place any progress tokens on Twisting Passage and trigger all "Lost:" effects in play.

When Revealed: The first player draws 1 card. Then, that player must choose and discard 4 cards from his hand, if able.

Forced: After Cave Spider engages a player, that player must choose and discard 1 card from his hand, if able.

Forced: After Goblin Sneak engages a player, discard the top card of the encounter deck. If it is a treachery card, Goblin Sneak engages the next player, if able.

Shadow: Add Goblin Sneak to the staging area.

Forced: After Nameless Thing engages a player, attach the top 2 cards of that player's deck to it.

X is the printed cost of all attached cards on this card. If there are no cards attached, X is 3.

Forced: After Elder Nameless Thing engages a player, attach the top 3 cards of that player's deck to it.

X is the printed cost of all attached cards on this card. If there are no cards attached, X is 4.

While Second Hall is the active location, it gains:

Forced: After a character leaves play, reveal 1 card from the encounter deck and add it to the staging area.

Down the centre stalked a double line of towering pillars. They were carved like boles of mighty trees whose boughs upheld the roof with a branching tracery of stone.
–The Fellowship of the Ring

When Revealed: Attach Counter-Spell to Durin's Bane. Counts as a Condition attachment with the text:

Forced: When a player plays an event, discard the top card of the encounter deck. If that card is a treachery card, cancel the effects of the event, discard the event player's hand, and discard Counter-spell from play.

When Revealed: Each player must deal 1 damage to a hero he controls.

Forced: After a character leaves play, shuffle Ranging Goblin and the top card in the encounter discard pile back into the encounter deck.

When Revealed: Attach Many Thonged Whip to Durin's Bane as a Weapon attachment with the text:

Forced: When Durin's Bane attacks, the defending player must discard 1 card at random from his hand.

...in its left it held a whip of many thongs.
–The Fellowship of the Ring

If unattached, return Alcaron's Scroll to the staging area and it gains:

Action: Exhaust a hero to attach Alcaron's Scroll to that hero.

Forced: When the hero with Alcaron's Scroll attached is damaged by an enemy attack, attach Alcaron's Scroll to that enemy.

Forced: When the player whose hero has Alcaron’s Scroll attached raises his threat, Harbor Thug engages that player.

Shadow: Any damage dealt by this attack is dealt to the hero with Alcaron’s Scroll attached, if able.

If Alcaron’s Scroll is attached to a hero, The Leaping Fish gains:

Forced: At the beginning of the quest phase discard X cards from the top of the encounter deck where X is the number of players in the game. Add each enemy discarded by this effect to the staging area.

Forced: Each time a location is discarded from the top of the encounter deck, raise each player's threat by 1.

Shadow: Deal attacking enemy an additional shadow card for each Thug enemy in play.

While Celador is in the staging area, he is committed to the current quest.

Forced: After players quest unsuccessfully or a character leaves play, deal 1 damage to Celador.

If Celador leaves play, remove him from the game.

Forced: When Pickpocket attacks, the defending player discards 1 resource from one of his heroes' resource pools and 1 card at random from his hand.

Shadow: Defending player discards 1 of his attachments. (Discard all of his attachments instead if undefended.)

Forced: When Zealous Traitor engages a player, that player must deal 1 damage to each ally he controls. (2 damage instead if Zealous Traitor was not optionally engaged.)