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: While Gladden Fields is the active location, each player must raise his threat by an additional point during the refresh phase.
"On a time they took a boat and went down to the Gladden Fields, where there were great beds of iris and flowering reeds."
–Gandalf, The Fellowship of the Ring
While The Eaves of Mirkwood is the active location, encounter card effects cannot be canceled.
By the afternoon they had reached the eaves of Mirkwood, and were resting almost beneath the great overhanging boughs of its outer trees.
–The Hobbit
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: While Gladden Fields is the active location, each player must raise his threat by an additional point during the refresh phase.
"On a time they took a boat and went down to the Gladden Fields, where there were great beds of iris and flowering reeds."
–Gandalf, The Fellowship of the Ring
While The Eaves of Mirkwood is the active location, encounter card effects cannot be canceled.
By the afternoon they had reached the eaves of Mirkwood, and were resting almost beneath the great overhanging boughs of its outer trees. –The Hobbit
While River Ninglor is the active location, remove 1 progress token from it and from the current quest at the end of each round.
Shadow: Remove 1 progress token from the current quest. (2 progress tokens instead if this attack is undefended.)
While The West Bank is the active location, attachment and event cards cost 1 additional matching resource to play from hand.
Shadow: If you do not control at least 1 hero with a Clue card attached, double this enemy's base 
for this attack.
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 Oak-wood Grove is the active location, resource tokens from any sphere may be spent as 
resource tokens.
X is double the number of players in the game.
While Amon Lhaw is the active location, treat all attachments as if their printed text boxes were blank.
While Rauros Falls is the active location, all characters must commit to the current quest during the quest phase.
Shadow: After this attack resolves, return attacking enemy to the staging area.
While The Heart of the Marshes is the active location, all cards dealt from the encounter deck for escape tests get +1 Escape. (Cards receive this bonus even if they do not have a printed escape value.)
Escape: 1
While The Spiders’ Ring is the active location, the player guarding Gollum cannot change.
Shadow: If this attack is undefended, return any current active location to the staging area. The Spiders’ Ring becomes the active location.
While Dry Watercourse is the active location, all treachery card effects that target the player guarding Gollum also target each other player.
While Bridge of Khazad-dûm is the active location, players cannot play cards.
While Turbulent Waters is the active location, players cannot optionally engage enemies.
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While Goblin Gate is the active location, the first enemy revealed from the encounter deck each round gains ambush. If that enemy engages a player, it makes an immediate attack (deal and resolve a shadow card).
A crack had opened at the back of the cave, and was already a wide passage.
–The Hobbit
While Barren Hills is the active location, ignore ambush.
Shadow: Return attacking enemy to the staging area after it attacks.
While Dark Pit is the active location it gains:
Refresh Action: Exhaust X characters (maximum 3) you control to discard the top X cards of your deck. If all discarded cards have a higher combined printed cost than the remaining hit points of Durin's Bane, discard Durin's Bane from play.
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
While Pelargir Docks is the active location, enemies get +1 and +1
...they saw the River like a ribbon laid down to Pelargir, and beyond that was a light on the hem of the sky that spoke of the Sea. –The Return of the King
While Ithilien Road is the active location, the engagement cost of each enemy in the staging area is 0.
Shadow: Return attacking enemy to the staging area after it attacks.
While West Quarter is the active location, the current quest gains Siege.
Shadow: If this attack destroys a character, that character's controller must return a location he controls with the highest to the staging area.
While East Quarter is the active location, the current quest gains Battle.
Shadow: If this attack destroys a character, that character's controller must return a location he controls with the highest to the staging area.
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
While Plains of Enedwaith is the active location, players do not draw a card during the resource phase.
Shadow: Attacking enemy gets +1 (+3 instead if undefended).
While Hithaeglir Stream is the active location, players draw 2 cards during the resource phase instead of 1.
Shadow: Attacking enemy gets +1 Attack. Deal it an additional shadow card.
Progress cannot be placed on Streets of Tharbad while it is in the staging area.
While Streets of Tharbad is the active location, enemies get -20 engagement cost.
As soon as his back was turned, a dark figure climbed quickly in over the gate and melted into the shadows of the village street. –The Fellowship of the Ring
While Tharbad Hideout is the active location, time counters cannot be removed from the current quest.
Forced: At the beginning of the quest phase, place 1 progress on Tharbad Hideout.
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
While Exposed Ridge is the active location, it gains:
Forced: At the end of the refresh phase, each player deals 1 damage to a character he controls.
Shadow: Attacking enemy gets +1 for each damaged character the defending player controls.
While Sheltered Valley is the active location, it gains:
Response: When Sheltered Valley is explored, heal all damage from 1 character.
Travel: Remove 1 resource token from the
UNRECOGNIZED TYPE: triat-search
objective.
While Concealed Orc-camp is the active location is gains:
Response: When Concealed Orc-camp is explored, place 1 resource token on the Mission objective.
Travel: The first player searches the encounter deck and discard pile for an Orc enemy and put it into play engaged with him. Shuffle the encounter deck.
While Norbury Tombs is the active location, it gains:
Respnse: When Norbury Tombs is explored, each player shuffles the top 5 cards of his discard pile into his deck.
Travel: Return the topmost enemy in the encounter discard pile to the staging area.
While Deadmen’s Gate is the active location, it gains:
Forced: After a player triggers an 'Action' or 'Response' effect, he must discard the top card of his deck.
Shadow: Discard an attachment you control.
While Troll-fells is the active location, Weather cards gain doomed 1.
When Revealed: If Troll-fells is not revealed guarding a safe location, search the encounter deck and discard pile for a location with the safe keyword and attach it to Troll-fells, guarded. Shuffle the encounter deck.
While Accursed Battlefield is the active location, each quest card in play gains the battle keyword.
Shadow: Attacking enemy gets +1 (+3 instead if the defending player's threat is higher than the attacking enemy's engagement cost).
While Mountains of Angmar is the active location, each shadow card with no shadow effect gains: "Shadow: Raise defending player's threat by 2."
Shadow: Raise defending player's threat by 2.