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When Revealed: Each player must choose and exhaust 1 character he controls.
Shadow: Defending player must choose and exhaust 1 character he controls. (2 characters instead if this attack is undefended.)
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Forced: After Hummerhorns engages you, deal 5 damage to a single hero you control.
Shadow: Deal 1 damage to each character the defending player controls. (2 damage instead if this attack is undefended.)
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When Revealed: Each character currently committed to a quest gets -1 
until the end of the phase.
Shadow: Raise defending player's threat by 4. (Raise defending player's threat by 8 instead if this attack is undefended.)
Travel: Each player must exhaust 1 hero he controls to travel here.
As he drew nearer, he saw that it was made with spider–webs one behind and over and tangled with another.
–The Hobbit
Travel: Reveal the top card of the encounter deck and add it to the staging area to travel here.
Response: After Mountains of Mirkwood leaves play as an explored location, each player may search the top 5 cards of his deck for 1 card and add it to his hand. Shuffle the rest of the searched cards back into their owners' decks.
When Revealed: Each player discards all event cards in his hand.
...he would see gleams in the darkness around them, and sometimes pairs of yellow or red or green eyes would stare at him from a little distance, and then slowly fade and disappear and slowly shine out again in another place.
–The Hobbit
When Revealed: The player with the highest threat level attaches this card to one of his heroes. (Counts as a Condition attachment with the text: 'Attached hero does not ready during the refresh phase unless you pay 2 resources from that hero's pool.')
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When Revealed: The first player chooses 1 character currently committed to a quest. Deal 2 damage to that character.
Shadow: Attacking enemy gets +1 (+3 instead if this attack is undefended.)
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Chieftain Ufthak get +2 for each resource token on him.
Forced: After Chieftain Ufthak attacks, place 1 resource token on him.
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Forced: When Dol Guldur Beastmaster attacks, deal it 1 additional shadow card.
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.)
When Revealed: Deal 1 damage to each exhausted character.
There was an eye in the Dark Tower that did not sleep. He knew that it had become aware of his gaze. A fierce eager will was there. – The Fellowship of the Ring
Travel: The first player must discard 2 cards from his hand at random to travel here.
"It is clad in a forest of dark fir, where the trees strive one against another and their branches rot and wither. In the midst upon a stony height stands Dol Guldur, where long the hidden Enemy had his dwelling."
–Haldir, The Fellowship of the Ring
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
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Forced: After Forest Spider engages a player, it gets +1 until the end of the round.
Shadow: Defending player must choose and discard 1 attachment he controls.
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Shadow: attacking enemy gets +1 (If this attack is undefended, also raise your threat by 3.)
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When Revealed: Each player must choose 1 character currently committed to a quest, and remove that character from the quest. (The chosen character does not ready.)
They could not stand that, nor the huge bats, black as a top–hat, either...
–The Hobbit
Response: After you travel to Old Forest Road the first player may choose and ready 1 character he controls.
...Beorn had warned them that that way was now often used by the goblins, while the forest–road itself, he had heard, was overgrown and disused on the eastern end and led to impassable marshes where the path had long been lost.
–The Hobbit
Response: After you travel to Forest Gate the first player may draw 2 cards.
The path itself was narrow and wound in and out among the trunks. Soon the light in the gate was like a little bright hole far behind, and the quiet was so deep that their feet seemed to thump along while the trees leaned over them and listened.
–The Hobbit
Each objective-location, and each card guarding one, is immune to player card effects.
Forced: When progress would be placed on the main quest, if there are no objective-locations in play, discard an equal number of cards from the encounter deck instead. Then, put the topmost objective-location in the encounter discard pile into play.
Travel: Shuffle the encounter discard pile into the encounter deck. Each player discards the top card of the encounter deck and assigns X damage among characters he controls, where X is that card's
Forced: After the players travel here, advance to the next stage A, if able.
Travel: Shuffle the encounter discard pile into the encounter deck. Each player discards the top card of the encounter deck. Add each enemy discarded this way to the staging area.
Forced: After the players travel here, advance to the next stage C, if able.
Travel: Shuffle the encounter discard pile into the encounter deck. Each player discards the top card of the encounter deck. Add each location discarded this way to the staging area.
Forced: After the players travel here, advance to the next stage A, if able.
Travel: Shuffle the encounter discard pile into the encounter deck. Each player discards the top card of the encounter deck and raises his threat by X, where X is that card's
Forced: After the players travel here, advance to the next stage C, if able.
Twilight Hall gets +2 for each resource on it.
Forced: After a Forest location is explored, place 1 resource here.
Travel: Raise each player's threat by 1 for each resource here. If there are no resources on Twilight Hall, the players cannot travel here.
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Forced: At the end of the encounter phase, if Mirkwood Patrol is in the staging area with an unguarded objective-location, attach that objective-location to Mirkwood Patrol, guarding it.
Shadow: The defender cannot ready this round.
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Forced: After Ravenous Spider engages you, it makes an immediate attack.
Shadow: Attacking enemy makes an additional attack against you after this one.
When Revealed: Each player removes a character he controls from the quest and discards the top card of the encounter deck. If the discarded card's printed is greater than the removed character's discard that character.
Shadow: Attacking enemy gets +2 and +2 if it is guarding a card.
When Revealed: Until the end of the phase, each non-objective location in the staging area gets +1 (+2 instead if it has at least 1 progress token on it). If the number of non-objective locations in the staging area is less than the number of players, Vastness of Mirkwood gains surge.
While Accursed Forest is in the staging area, "when revealed" effects cannot be canceled.
Travel: Reveal the top card of the encounter deck.
There was a breath of air and a noise of wind, but it had a sad sound.
–The Hobbit
While Dark Black Woods is in the staging area, no more than 1 progress can be placed on each Forest location in the staging area each round.
Travel: Each player discards the top card of the encounter deck. Add each enemy discarded this way to the staging area.
When Revealed: Each player must choose: either raise your threat by 1 for each ally you control, or reveal an encounter card.
Shadow: Attacking enemy gets +1 If this attack destroys a character, discard an ally you control.
When Revealed: Each player discards each resource from each of his hero's resource pools and raises his threat by 1 for each resource he discarded this way. If no resources were discarded this way, Swarm of Bats gains surge.
Shadow: Attacking enemy gets +1 (+2 instead if the defending character has an attachment).
After several days of traveling through Mirkwood, you awaken suddenly in the night to see dozens of hungry eyes glaring at you from the darkness.
Setup: Set the Spiders of Mirkwood and Dol Guldur Orcs encounter sets aside, out of play. The first player takes control of Haldan and adds Searching for a Way Out to the staging area. Each player adds 1 Forest Spider to the staging area. Shuffle the encounter deck.
There is a bitter fight not only to drive back the spiders but to avoid being separated in the pitch black. When the first light of dawn rises to reveal your surroundings, you see only endless trees and no sign of your path. You begin searching about for some type of landmark to point you in the right direction.
Each player's threat cannot be reduced by player card effect.
Forced: After an enemy engages a player, raise that player's threat by 1.
You've got a better idea of where you are, but you have unfortunately wandered too far north and into the territory of the giant spiders of Mirkwood.
When Revealed: Shuffle the Spiders of Mirkwood encounter set into the encounter deck. Then, reveal 1 encounter card per player.
You fight to keep the spiders at bay as you continue to search for landmarks or a better view of the forest to find your way out.
The first Spider enemy revealed each quest phase gains surge.
Forced: When a Spider enemy attacks and damages a character, that character cannot ready until the end of the round.
You've got a better idea of where you are, but you have unfortunately wandered too far south and into the territory of the Orcs of Dol Guldur.
When Revealed: Shuffle the Dol Guldur Orcs encounter set into the encounter deck. Then, reveal 1 encounter card per player.
You fight to keep the Orcs at bay as you continue to search for landmarks or a better view of the forest to find your way out.
The first Orc enemy revealed each quest phase gains surge.
Forced: When an Orc enemy attacks and damages a character, that character's controller chooses and discards 1 card from his hand.
As night falls some of your companions are carried off by unseen foes. You follow the sound of their cries in order to rescue them.
When Revealed: Each player chooses a hero he controls, discards each token and attachment from that hero, and places it in the staging area. Each player discards cards from the top of the encounter deck until an enemy is discarded and attaches that enemy to the hero he owns in the staging area, guarding it.
Each enemy guarding a hero cannot take non-combat damage. Each guarded hero is in play but under no player's control.
Forced: When an enemy guarding a hero is defeated, return that hero to its owner's control exhausted.
When the players advance from this stage, discard each guarded hero.
Exhaustion begins to take its toll as you stumble through the endless forest. Supplies grow sparse and you struggle to find anything that can help.
When Revealed: Each player discards cards from the top of the encounter deck until he discards a non-objective lcoation and adds it to the staging area. Each player places his hand of cards facedown under a different location in the staging area.
Each location gets +1 quest point for each facedown player card under it.
Forced: When a location with a facedown player card under it is explored, return each facedown player card under it to its owner's hand.
When the players advance from this stage, discard each facedown player card under a location.
Just when you think you've found the way out of the forest, you see an evil creature blocking your path. You dare not leave the trail after working so hard to find it, so you resolve to fight the beast and escape Mirkwood.
When Revealed: Remove Searching for a Way Out from the game. Search the remaining set-aside encounter set for the enemy with the most hit points and add it to the staging area. That enemy is the "nemesis" until it leaves play.
The nemesis gets +2 +2 +2 and is immune to player card effects.
Forced: At the end of the round, return the nemesis to the staging area and it makes an attack against the first player.
This stage cannot be defeated while the nemesis is in play. The nemesis cannot take damage unless there is at least 8 progress on this stage. If the players defeat the nemesis, they win the game.
You can see light ahead from what must be the forest's edge and it looks as if you will reach the other side, but then you hear the cry of enemies all around you. It seems that you will have to fight once more to escape from Mirkwood.
When Revealed: Remove Searching for a Way Out from the game. Starting with the first player, each player discards cards from the top of the encounter deck until he discards an enemy and puts that enemy into play engaged with him.
Forced: At the end of the round, raise each player's threat by 1 for each enemy engaged with him.
This stage cannot be defeated while a player is engaged with an enemy. When this stage is defeated, the players win the game.