

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.

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.

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.



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.

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.

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.


When Revealed: Attach to a hero with no “Sacked!” cards attached controlled by the first player. (Cannot be canceled.) Counts as a condition attachment with the text:
Attached hero cannot attack, defend, commit to a quest, trigger its effect, or collect resources.

Shadow: If attacking enemy is a Troll resolve this card's 'when revealed' effect.




Action: Exhaust a hero to claim this objective. Then, attach Book of Mazarbul to that hero. (If detached, return Book of Mazarbul to the staging area.)
Attached hero cannot attack and does not exhaust to commit to a quest.

When Revealed: The last player deals damage equal to The Nameless Fear's to a hero he controls. This effect cannot be canceled.

Shadow: Deal damage equal to The Nameless Fear's to the defending character.

Action: Exhaust a hero to claim this objective if it has no encounters attached. Then, attach Abandoned Tools to that hero. (If detached, return Abandoned Tools to the staging area.)

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.

When Revealed: The first player must discard 3 resources from each hero he controls.

Shadow: Defending player must discard 2 resources from each hero he controls.

When Revealed: The first player attaches this card to a hero he controls. Counts as a Condition attachment with the text:
Attached hero gets -2and cannot commit to a quest. If attached hero has more than 1 copy of Freezing Cold attached, discard attached hero from play.


Response: After you travel to Ruined Road, the first player places 2 progress tokens on it or readies 1 hero controls.

Shadow: Return attacking enemy to the staging area after it attacks.


When Revealed: The first player attaches Wrapped! to a hero he controls. Counts as a Tentacle attachment with the text:
Limit 1 per hero. Attached hero cannot exhaust or ready. At the end of the round, discard attached hero from play.
Combat Action: Exhaust a hero you control without a Tentacle attachment to discard Wrapped!.

When Revealed: The first player attaches Durinโs Greaves to a hero of his choice as an attachment.
Attached hero gets +1 .





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.


If Alcaronโs 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: When Umbar Assassin engages a player, that player must deal 3 damage to a hero he controls. (Discard that hero instead if Umbar Assassin was not optionally engaged.)






The cost to play each player card is increased by 1.
Travel: Exhaust a hero to travel here.
"They still haunt The Drรบadan Forest..." –Elfhelm, The Return of the King



The players cannot travel here.
Combat Action: Exhaust a hero to place 1 progress token on Ancient Harbor.
Forced: After the player who controls Ancient Harbor lets an attack go undefended, return Ancient Harbor to the staging area.
When Revealed: Discard cards from the top of the encounter deck until an Osgiliath location is discarded. The first player may exhaust a hero to take control of that location. Otherwise, add that location to the staging area. This effect cannot be canceled.
And now the fighting waxed furious...
–The Return of the King





When Revealed: Remove a hero from the quest and attach In Need of Rest to that hero. Counts as a Condition attachment with the text:
Limit 1 per hero. Forced: After a time counter is removed from the current quest, attached hero takes 1 damage.
I have just about enough strength left to find some hole away up there. And then I must rest a little.
–Frodo, The Return of the King

If unattached, the first player must claim Key of the Boar and attach it to a hero he controls.
If Key of the Boar is discarded, add it to the staging area.

Shadow: Shuffle Key of the Boar back into the encounter deck.

If unattached, the first player must claim Key of the Wolf and attach it to a hero he controls.
If Key of the Wolf is discarded, add it to the staging area.

Shadow: Shuffle Key of the Wolf back into the encounter deck.

If unattached, the first player must claim Key of the Raven and attach it to a hero he controls.
If Key of the Raven is discarded, add it to the staging area.

Shadow: Shuffle Key of the Raven back into the encounter deck.

If Celebrimborโs Mould is free of encounters, the first player claims it and attaches it to a hero he controls.
If the attached hero leaves play, the players lose the game.
"Celebrimbor of Hollin drew these signs." –Gandalf, The Fellowship of the Ring

Forced: After the last time counter is removed from this quest cards, each player deals 4 damage to a hero he controls. Then, place 4 time counters on this quest card.
The weather is growing steadily worse, and black clouds loom on the horizon. You must find a safe place to shelter or be caught in the storm...

When Revealed: Each player deals 1 damage to a hero he controls. Attach Cold from Angmar to the current quest. Counts as a Condition attachment with the text:
Treat each damaged character's printed text box as if it were blank, except for keywords and Traits.
"...the weather may prove a more deadly enemy than any." –Gandalf, The Fellowship of the Ring

Characters cannot be healed.
Response: After Make Camp is defeated, each player heals up to 3 damage from a hero he controls.
Your companions are exhausted from tireless effort, but you must find a safe place to make camp before you can tend to their needs.

Surge.
Forced: After Mysterious Omens becomes the current quest, each player discards 1 random card from their hand.
Forced: When Mysterious Omens is defeated, remove it from the Campaign Pool. Then, each player may choose 1 of the following boons and attach it to a hero they control: Cunning, Hardy, Resolute, Ruthless, or Stalwart.


Forced: After 1 or more resources are spent from a hero's resource pool, deal 1 damage to that hero.
Response: After this stage is defeated, heal 1 damage from each hero.
What little rations you managed to recover after your imprisonment have run dry. If the Trolls or the cold doesn't kill you, starvation surely will. There must be some food to find in these barren hills.

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.

Action: Exhaust Amarthiรบl or a hero to claim Heirloom of Iรขrchon. Then, attach Heirloom of Iรขrchon to that character.
Attached character gets +1 .
You find a pendant, similar to the one you've seen Iรขrion wearing. The inscription on the back says:
"Iรขrchon, may this pendant guide you away from the shadow that dwells within us all. –Your loving father"

Action: Exhaust Amarthiรบl or a hero to claim Orders from Angmar. Then, attach Orders from Angmar to that character.
Attached character gets +1 while defending against Undead enemies.
You find a tattered, barely legible scroll dated over 1000 years ago, summong those loyal to the Witch-king of Angmar for an assault on Rivendell.



If unattached, return Gate Key to the staging area and it gains:"Action: Exhaust a hero to claim Gate Key and attach it to that hero."
Action: Exhaust Gate Key and attached hero and spend 3 resources from attached hero's resource pool to look at the facedown side of a Temple of the Deceived.



While Sunken Temple is the active location, treat each attachment as if its printed text box is blank (except for Traits).
Forced: If Sunken Temple is the active location at the end of the quest phase, discard 1 resource from each objective-ally an each hero's resource pool. Then, you may flip Sunken Temple to its Grotto side.

Your companions grow weary from thirst. They need water to drink.
Characters cannot be readied by player card effects.
Response: When this stage is defeated, each player readies 1 hero he controls.







Response: After Ancient Treasury becomes the active location, each player may (choose one): reduce his threat by 3, draw 2 cards, or add 1 resource to a hero's resource pool. Limit once per game for the group.
...there in rows stood great jars and vessels filled with a wealth that could not be guessed.
–The Hobbit

While Durin's Key is free of encounters, the first player attached it to a hero he controls.
Action: Exhaust Durin's Key to give each location -1 until the end of the phase.
Forced: At the beginning of the quest phase, the player who controls Durin's Key looks at the top 3 cards of the encounter deck, chooses 1 to reveal, and discards the rest.

Hrogar's Hill was built to defend against Goblins and forest creatures; no one ever imagined a Dragon attack. You hurry to organize a proper defense.
Characters do not count their when defending against Dagnir.
Response: When Fortify the is defeated, each player chooses: either draw 3 cards, or each hero he controls gains 1 resource.




Loot.
If unattached, the first player claims Old Lantern and attaches it to a hero he controls.
Action: Exhaust Old Lantern to choose a player to look at the top X cards of his deck, where X is the Discover value of the active location. He adds one of those cards to his hand and places the rest on the bottom of his deck.


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


While Dwarven Watchtower is the active location, each hero gets +1
Response: After Dwarven Watchtower is explored, the first player chooses: either place 1 resource on The Heroes' Defense, or remove 1 progress from The Goblins' Assault.


The lonely plains appear to stretch endlessly in each direction, and you tire just from looking at them.
Each player cannot ready more than 6 characters he controls during the refresh phase.
Response: When this stage is defeated, each player may ready a hero he controls.




While Secret Entrance is the active location, The Lonely Mountain's is reduced by half (round up).
Travel: The first player must exhaust a hero and name a card type to travel here. Then, look at the top card of the encounter deck. If the looked at card is not the named type, return Secret Entrance to the staging area. (The players cannot travel again this round.)


Response: After the players travel to Bamfurlong, each player engaged with a Nazgรปl enemy may ready a hero he controls.
"This is Bamfurlong, old Farmer Maggot's land."
–Pippin, The Fellowship of the Ring

When Revealed: Attach to a hero. (Counts as a Condition attachment with the text: "Limit 1 per hero.Forced: After a player fails a Hide test, discard attached hero.")
"He is not far away. I wish to find him. If he passes will you tell me? I will come back with gold."
–Black Rider, The Fellowship of the Ring



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



Immune to player card effects.
Response: When The Great Bridge is explored, discard a hero from play to deal X damage to The Balrog. X is that hero's threat cost. Then, The Balrog loses all keywords for the remainder of the game. Any player may trigger this response.


Setup: Add Overcome by Grief to the staging area.
Forced: After a character is destroyed, if Overcome by Grief is unattached, attach to a hero. (Counts as a Condition attachment with the text:"Forced: After a character you control is destroyed, exhaust attached hero. Until the end of the round, attached hero cannot ready.")




While Eastemnet is the active location, it gains:"Response: After Eastemnet is explored, add 1 resource to each hero's resource pool."
Travel: Increase the pursuit value by 1.
...the Horse–lords had formerly kept many herds and studs in the Eastemnet, this easterly region of their realm... –The Two Towers


While Deeping Wall is the active location, each hero gets +1
Forced: When Deeping Wall is explored, raise each player's threat by 4.
The Deeping Wall was twenty feet high, and so thick that four men could walk abreast along the top, sheltered by a parapet over which only a tall man could look. –The Two Towers


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


When Revealed: Remove a hero from the quest and attach Saruman's Voice to that hero. (Counts as a Condition attachment with the text:"Forced: When attached hero commits to a quest, is declared and attacker or defender, or triggers its ability, its controller must discard 1 card from his hand.")


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: Remove a hero you control from the quest and attach Black Dart to that hero. Limit 1 per hero. (Counts as a Condition attachment with the text:"Forced: At the end of the round, deal 1 damage to attached hero.")

Shadow: If this attack damages a hero, attach Black Dart to that hero.



While Old Water-course is the active location, it gains:"Response: When Old Water-course is explored, reduce each player's threat by 5."
Travel: Each player must exhaust a hero he controls to travel here.
Clambering a few steps up he found a tiny stream of dark water that came out from the hill–side and filled a little bare pool...
–The Return of the King

Guarded.
Action: Exhaust a hero to claim this objective and attach it to that hero when it is free of encounters. (Counts as an attachment with the text:'If detached discard The OldThrushResponse: After attached hero exhausts to attack Smaug, discard X cards from hand to reduce Smaug's by X.')


Burn 1.
Travel: If there is 1 active location exhaust a hero to travel here (There are now 2 active locations)

Shadow: Add this location to the staging area.




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.

If unattached, the fist player claims Map of Ered Luin and attaches it to a hero he controls.
Action: Exhaust Map of Ered Luin to choose a non-unique location. That location gets -2 until the end of the phase.

If unattached, the fist player claims Keys of Belegost and attaches it to a hero he controls.
Action: Exhaust Keys of Belegost to choose a hero. Add 1 resource to that hero's resource pool.


If unattached, the fist player claims Dwarven Torch and attaches it to a hero he controls.
Action: Exhaust Dwarven Torch to choose a non-unique enemy. That enemy gets -1 and -1
until the end of the phase.

If unattached, the fist player claims Blue Mountain Gem and attaches it to a hero he controls.
Action: Exhaust Blue Mountain Gem to choose a player. Reduce that player's threat by 1.





Cannot have player card attachments.
Old Stone Troll gets -10 engagement cost for each Loot objective attached to a hero.
Only the engaged player can declare attackers against Old Stone Troll.







While Dark-wight is engaged with a player, that player's heroes cannot gain resources from card effects.
Forced: After Dark-wight attacks and destroys a character, that character's controller discards all resources from each hero he controls.


Immune to player card effects.
Forced: At the end of the round, if Enemy Camp is in play, discard 1 random facedown hero from under each stage 3. If Enemy Camp is in the victory display, return each hero under each stage 3 to its owner's control instead.
Travel: Reveal 1 encounter card per player to travel here.


While Arnor Battlefield is in the staging area, each non-unique enemy gets -5 engagement cost.
Travel: Each player deals 1 damage to a hero he controls to travel here.
A smoke as of fire and battle arose, and again the sun went down in a burning red that faded into a grey mist...
–The Fellowship of the Ring








When Revealed: The first player chooses a hero in any player's discard pile and removes that hero from the game. Then, heal all damage from each Troll enemy in play. If no damage is removed from any Troll enemy as a result of this effect, Time for Supper gains surge.
In the end they decided to mince them fine and boil them. So they got a black pot, and they took out their knives. –The Hobbit





Forced: After Lost Soul of Lรณrien is destroyed, attach it to a hero with 1 or more if able. (Counts as a Condition attachment with the text: "Limit 1 per hero. Attached hero's
is reduced to 0.")
"Many faces proud and fair, and weeds in their silver hair." –Frodo, The Two Towers





Progress cannot be placed on Fiery Depths while it is in the staging area.
Travel: Each player must move 1 damage from Durin's Bane to a hero to travel here.
Out of it a fierce red light came, and now and again flames licked at the brink and curled about the bases of the columns. –The Fellowship of the Ring












Surge.
When Revealed: Attach to a hero with a Key objective attached, if able. (Counts as a Condition attachment with the text: "Limit 1 per hero. Attached hero cannot commit to the quest, and cannot attack or defend against enemies with a Trait shared by any of that hero's attached Key objectives.")







Forced: After Jailor Gornย kh enters playt each player searches his captured deck for each hero and captures thme underneath Jailor Gornย kh.
Forced: After a player rescues any number of cards, Jailor Gornย kh attacks that player.



Forced: When Desecrated Ruins is flipped over while active, remove all resources from each hero and objective-ally.
Tar–Palantir attempted to ammend the evil: but it was too late, and there was rebellion and strife in Nรบmenor
–The Return of the King
Uncharted. Cannot have player card attachments.
Forced: After Edge of the Temple becomes the active location, flip it over.
Action: Remove 8 progress from Edge of the Temple to look at its facedown side.

Guarded.
If Aearlang is free of encounters, add it to the staging area, controlled by the players.
Action: Exhaust Aearlang to ready a hero. Any player may trigger this action.
"Then you would have us retreat... and there sit like children on sand–castles when the tide is flowing?"
–Prince Imrahil, The Return of the King


While Dark Colony is the active location, poisoned characters cannot ready.
Travel: A player at this stage must give 1 poison to a hero he controls to travel here.
Suddenly he saw, too, that there were spiders huge and horrible sitting in the branches above him, and ring or no ring he trembled with fear lest they should discover him.
–The Hobbit


