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

X is the number of players in the game.

Immune to player card effects. Cannot be optionally engaged.

Temple Guardian gets -50 engagement cost while Cursed Temple is the active location.

Campaign Mode only.

Archery X. X is the number of players in the game.

Immune to player card effects. Cannot be optionally engaged.

Temple Guardian gets -50 engagement cost while Cursed Temple is the active location.

While Woody End is the active location, reduce each Hide X value by 1.

At the south end of the greensward there was an opening. There the green floor ran on into the wood, and formed a wide space like a hall, roofed by the boughs of trees.
–The Fellowship of the Ring

While Green Hill Country is the active location, characters get +1 while committed to Hide tests.

Shadow: Attacking enemy gets +1 (+2 instead if you have failed a Hide test this round)

While Midgewater is the active location, enemies cannot attack, take damage, or be engaged.

Forced: After Midgewater becomes the active location, return each engaged enemy in play to the staging area.

...there was no permanent trail even for Rangers to find through their shifting quagmires.
–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

While Ettenmoors is the active location, do not deal Nazgûl enemies a shadow card during the combat phase.

Forced: After any amount of progress is placed on Ettenmoors reduce the Ring-bearer's life by 1.

Before long Frodo was obliged to dismount and stuggle along on foot. –The Fellowship of the Ring

While Tree-crowned hill is the active location, each enemy gets -1

Forced: When Tree-crowned hill is explored, the players, as a group, exhaust X characters in play. X is the number of damage here.

For their defense in the night the Company climbed to the top of the small hill... –The Fellowship of the Ring

While Hills of Hollin is the active location, each enemy in the staging area gets +5 engagement cost.

Forced: When Hills of Hollin is explored, each player raises his threat by 1 for each damage here.

For their defense in the night the Company climbed to the top of the small hill... –The Fellowship of the Ring

While Hills of Hollin is the active location, it gains:"Forced: After an enemy is added to the staging area, it gets -5 engagement cost until the end of the round."

Forced: When Redhorn Foothills is explored, each player must discard X cards from his hand at random. X is the number of damage here.

While Ancient Guardroom is the active location, each enemy in play gets -1 .

Travel: Discard the top card of the encounter deck to travel here. Each player raises his threat by X, where X is the discarded card's .

Immune to player card effects. X is the number of players in the game.

The players cannot travel here while Sarn Gebir is in play. While The Argonath is the active location, skip the combat phase.

"Behold the Argonath, the Pillars of the Kings!" –Aragorn, The Fellowship of the Ring

While the Wold is the active location, it gains:"Response: After The Wold is explored, each player draws 1 card."

Travel: Increase the pursuit value by 1.

Ahead and eastward they saw the windy uplands of the Wold of Rohan that they had already glimpsed many days ago from the Great River. –The Two Towers

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 The Hornburg is the active location, reduce the archery total by 1 for each player in the game.

Forced: When The Hornburg is explored, assign X damage among characters in play. X is the number of enemies in play.

But the Hornburg still held fast, like an island in the sea. –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

While Helm's Gate is the active location, if any player is not engaged with an enemy, the first player reveals an encounter card at the end of each staging step.

Forced: When Helm's Gate is explored, each enemy gets -20 engagement cost and +2 until the end of the round.

While Henneth Ann–n is the active location, skip both the encounter phase and combat phase, and ignore the Forced effects on stage 1B and The Black Gate.

Forced: After Henneth Ann–n becomes the active location, return each engaged enemy to the staging area.

"This is the Window of the Sunset, Henneth Ann–n, fairest of all the falls of Ithilien..." -Faramir, The Two Towers

While Southward Road is the active location, each player may optionally engage an additional enemy during the encounter phase.

Travel: The first player reveals the top facedown card under The Cross-roads and adds it to the staging area to travel here.

"These cursed Southrons come now marching up the ancient roads to swell the hosts of the Dark Tower." -Mablung, The Two Towers

While Foothills of Ephel Dúath is the active location, each Harad enemy gets -1

Travel: The first player engages an enemy in the staging area to travel here.

"And they go ever more heedlessly, we learn, thinking that the power of their new master is great enough, so that the mere shadow of His hills will protect them." -Mablung, The Two Towers

While Ithilien Woods is the active location, it gains:"Forced: After a player engages a Harad enemy, he readies a character he controls."

Travel: The first player reveals an encounter card to travel here.

Ithilien, the garden of Gondor now desolate kept still a dishevelled dryad loveliness. -The Two Towers

While Hills of Ithilien is the active location, it gains:"Forced: After a player engages a Harad enemy, deal 1 damage to that enemy."

Shadow: Discard a non-objective attachment you control.

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 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 East Bank is the active location, ally 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, return this enemy to the staging area after its attack resolves.

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 Hen is the active location, players cannot play events.

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 The East Wall of Rohan is the active location, non-Rohan characters cost 2 additional matching resources to play.

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 Outer Ridge is the active location, each location in the staging area gets +1 .

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.

While Caradhras is the active location, questing characters get -1 .

Players cannot travel to Caradhras except by quest card effects.

While Celebdil is the active location, remove 2 progress tokens from it at the end of each round.

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.

Doomed 1.

While Mithril Lode is the active location, it gains:

Refresh Action: Exhaust a character you control to place X progress tokens on the current quest card, bypassing any active location. X is the exhausted character's . (Limit once per round.)