When Revealed: Each location in the staging area gets +1 
until the end of the phase. Then, each player with a threat of 35 or higher chooses and discards 1 card from his hand.
"But it will be hard to find the path unless the fog lifts a little later on."
–Aragorn, The Fellowship of the Ring
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.)
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.
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For each resource on Crowley, he gets +1 , +1 , +1 , and +1 hit point. If Crowley has 3 or more resources on him, he gains victory 3.
Forced: When Crowley engages you, place 1 resource on him. At the end of the combat phase, return him to the staging area.
When Black Key leaves play, remove it from the game.
Attached enemy gets +1 +1 +1 and gainst immune to player card effects.
Forced: At the end of the quest phase, if Captain Sahír is in play, place 1 resource on him for each player in the game.
When Black Key leaves play, remove it from the game.
Attached enemy gets +1 +1 +1 and gains immune to player card effects.
While Chetwood is in the staging area, Spy enemies get +1 and +1 .
Shadow: Defending player discards 1 random card from his hand.
On the third day out from Bree they came out of the Chetwood. –The Fellowship of the Ring
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).
When Revealed: Remove all damage from each enemy at this stage. Each enemy at this stage gets +1 , +1 , and +1 until the end of the round.
Shadow: If the defending character has fewer printed hit points than the attacking enemy, this attack is considered undefended.
When Revealed: Attach to the active location. (Counts a Siege attachment with the text: "Each enemy gets +1
Shadow: Attacking enemy gets +1 If this attack destroys a character, place 1 progress on the current quest.
Mire 5. Forced: When Stagnant Pools is discarded by the Mire keyword, raise each player's threat by 5.
Stagnant Pools gets +1 for each mire token on it.
Travel: Exhaust Smeagol to travel here.
Mists curled and smoked from dark and noisome pools. The reek of them hung stifling in the still air. -The Two Towers
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Indestructible.Cannot have attachments.
Shelob gets +1 for each resource on her.
Forced: At the beginning of the quest phase, either place 1 resource on Shelob, or she makes an immediate attack against the first player.
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
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When Revealed: Discard 1 random card from your hand. Snaga gets +X until the end of the round, where X is the discarded card's printed cost.
Round them were many smaller goblins. –The Two Towers
Haunted Path gets +1 Threat for each player with a threat of 35 or higher.
Travel: Raise each player's threat
Shadow: Either raise your your threat by 2, or return attacking enemy to the staging area after this attack.
When Revealed: Each Ship location in the staging area gets +1 Threat until the end of the phase. If there are no non-unique Ship locations in the staging area, search the encounter deck and discard pile for a Ship location and add it to the staging area. Shuffl
When Revealed: Attach to a Nazgûl enemy. Limit 1 per enemy. (Counts as a Mount attachment with the text: "Attached enemy gets +1 Threat, +1 Attack, +1 Defense and -10 engagement cost. Forced: At the end of the round, return attached enemy
...horrible as carrion-fowl yet greater than eagles, cruel as death. -The Return of the King
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Setup: Add Wraith on Wings to the staging area.
Cannot have non-Morgul attachments.
Wraith on Wings gets +1 Threat and -1 enagement cost for each resource on it.
Forced: At the beginning of the quest phase, place 1 resource on Wraith on Wings (Limit 5 resources.)
Echoing Passage gets +1 Threat for each enemy in the staging area.
While Echoing Passage is the active location, each e
Many doors and openings could be seen on this side and that; but it was empty save for two or three more bodies sprawling on the floor.
-The Return of the King
When Revealed: Deal 1 damage to each enemy in the staging area. Until the end of the phase, each enemy gets +1 Threat for each damage on it. If there are no enemies in the staging area, Orci
Shadow: If you are engaged with another enemy, resolve this attack against that enemy.
Immune to player card effects. The players cannot travel here.
The Black Gate gets +1 Threat for each resource on it.
Forced: At the beginning of the quest phase, place 1 resource here and raise each player's threat by 1.
The great doors of the Black Gate swung back wide. Out of it streamed a great host as swiftly as swirling waters when a sluice is lifted.
-The Return of the King
When Revealed: Either search the encounter deck, discard pile, and victory display for a Nazgûl enemy and add it to the staging area, or attach Hell-hawk to a Nazgûl enemy in play. (Counts as a Mount attachment with the text: "Limit 1 per enemy. Attached enemy gets +2 Threat, +2 Attack, +2 Defense and is immune to
Mordor Road gets +1 Threat for each controlled by the player who controls the most allies.
Forced: After Mordor Road becomes the active location, each player discards the top card of the encounter deck. Add each enemy discarded this way to the staging area.
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They climbed on to the causeway and trudged along, down the hard cruel road that led to the Dark Tower itself.
-The Return of the King
If a player has failed a Fortitude test this round, Plain of Gorgoroth gets +2 Threat.
Travel: The first player makes a Fortitude test to travel here. If he fails this test, raise each player's threat by 4.
There smokes trailed on the ground and lurked in hollows, and fumes leaked from fissures in the earth.
-The Return of the King
Each enemy in the staging area gets +1 Threat and -10 engagement cost.
Forced: At the end of the round, flip The Eye of Sauron, the move it and each Nazgûl enemy in the staging area to the Mount Doom staging area. The first player may raise each player's threat by 3 t
When Revealed: Each location in the staging area gets +1 until the end of the phase. Then, each player with a threat of 35 or higher chooses and discards 1 card from his hand.
"But it will be hard to find the path unless the fog lifts a little later on."
–Aragorn, The Fellowship of the Ring
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.)
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.
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While it is in the staging area, River Langflood gets +1 for each Troll enemy in play.
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: Each enemy and location currently in the staging area gets +1 until the end of the phase. (+3 instead if it is a Dark location.) Players may exhaust a Cave Torch to cancel this effect.
Shadow: attacking enemy gets +2
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While Orc Drummer is in the staging area, each enemy gets +X . X is the number of players in the game.
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Immune to player card effects.
While The Islet is the active location, each Dunland enemy in play gets +1 .
There were three lines of flat stepping–stones across the stream, and between them fords for horses, that went from either brink to a bare eyot in the midst. –The Two Towers
While Methedras is the active location, each location in the staging area gets +1
Forced: When Methedras leaves play as an explored location, each player Searches 3.
Beyond there glimmered far away, as if floating on a grey cloud, the white head of tall Methedras, the last peak of the Misty Mountains. –The Two Towers
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While any player has 3 or more cards in hand, Dunland Prowler gains Surge.
While any player has 5 or more cards in hand, Dunland Prowler gets +1 .
...the wild men of the Dunland fells. –The Two Towers
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When Revealed: Each player draws a card.
Forced: After a player draws any number of cards, Dunland Tribesman gets +1 until the end of the round.
Shadow: Attacking enemy gets +1 .
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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.
While Ruins of the Second Age is in the staging area, City locations get +1 .
While Ruins of the Second Age is the active location, deal engaged enemies 1 additional shadow card at the beginning of the combat phase.
...as far as Tharbad, where the old North Road crossed the river by a ruined town. –The Fellowship of the Ring
When Revealed: Return all engaged enemies to the staging area. Then, the first player either removes 1 time counter from the current quest or each Spy enemy in the staging area gets +2 until the end of the phase.
Concealment was no longer possible, and they could only hope that no enemy or spy was observing them. –The Fellowship of the Ring
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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.
Weathered Hilltop gets +1 for each resource token on it.
Forced: After a Weather treachery is revealed from the encounter deck, place 1 resource token here.
"There is little shelter or defence here..." –Aragorn, The Fellowship of the Ring
Fornost Square gets +1 for each resource token on it.
Forced: After the first player discards any number of cards from the top of his deck, place 1 resource token here.
"...the heirs of Valandil removed and dwelt at Fornost on the high North Downs, and that now too is desolate." –Elrond, The Fellowship of the Ring
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.