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

X is the 1 more than the number of allies controlled by the first player.

Forced: When Deeping Culvert is explored, each player searches the encounter deck and discard pile for an enemy, reveals it, and adds it to the staging area. Shuffle the encounter deck.

Orcs had crept like rats through the culvert through which the stream flowed out. –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 Ring-wall of Isengard is in the staging area, it gains:"Forced: After any amount of damage is healed from a character, its owner discards 1 card from his hand."

Wizardry: Each player discards 1 random card from his hand.

While Underground Armoury is in the staging area, it gains:"Forced: After an enemy engages a player, deal it a shadow card."

Wizardry: Each player exhausts a character he controls.

The shafts ran down by many slopes and spiral stairs to caverns far under; there Saruman had treasuries, store–houses, armouries, smithies, and great furnaces. –The Two Towers

While Steaming Vent is in the staging area, it gains:"Forced: After a player commits characters to the quest, he deals 1 damage to a questing character he controls."

Wizardry: Assign X damage among characters in play. X is 1 more than the number of players in the game.

X is the number of players in the game.

While Plain of Isengard is in the staging area, archery damage must be assigned to allies, if able.

Wizardry: Each player discards 1 ally he controls.

While Open Pit is in the staging area, it gains:"Forced: After a player draws any number of cards from a player card effect, he raises his threat by 2."

Wizardry: Each player raises his threat by 2.

Mire 3. Forced: When Evil-smelling Fens is discarded by the Mire keyword, deal 1 damage to each character.

Travel: Raise each player's threat by 1 to travel here.

Shadow: Deal 1 damage to defending character.

Surge.

Mire 1. Forced: When Shifting Quagmire is discarded by the Mire keyword, either return a random location from the victory display to the staging area, or raise each player's threat by 1 for each location in the victory display.

Travel: Spend 1 resource to travel here.

Mire 2. Forced: When Haunted Mere is discarded by the Mire keyword, search the encounter deck and discard pile for an Undead enemy, reveal it, and add it to the staging area. Shuffle the encounter deck.

Travel: Exhaust Smeagol to travel here.

"They lie in all the pools, pale faces, deep deep under the dark water." -Frodo, The Two Towers

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

Mire 1. Forced: When Soft Mires is discarded by the Mire keyword, the first player reveals an encounter card.

Travel: Raise each player's threat by 1 to travel here.

The hobbits soon found that what had looked like one vast fen was really an endless network of pools, and soft mires... -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.

Forced: When The Spider's Lair is explored, remove 1 resource from Shelob.

Forced: After The Spider's Lair becomes the active location, Shelob makes an attack against the first player.

There agelong she had dwelt, an evil thing in spider–form, even such as once of old had lived in the Land of the Elves in the West that is now under the Sea... -The Two Towers

While The Under-way is in the staging area, each Orc enemy gets -5 engagement cost and gains:"Forced: After this enemy engages a player, deal it a shadow card."

Shadow: Deal the attacking enemy 2 additional shadow cards.

While Deep Dark Passage is in the staging area, it gains:"Forced: When any amount of progress would be placed on a location in the staging area, reduce that amount by 1."

Travel: Exhaust Sméagol to travel here.

Not since the lightless passages of Moria had Frodo or Sam known such darkness, and if possible here it was deeper and denser. -The Two Towers

While Den of Night is in the staging area, it gains:"Forced: After a `When Revealed' effect is canceled, place 1 resource on Shelob."

Travel: Place 1 resource on Shelob to travel here.

Here was some opening in the rock far wider than any they had yet passed; and out of it came a reek so foul, and a sense of lurking malice so intense, that Frodo reeled. -The Two Towers

When Revealed: Make Blocked Tunnel the active location, returning any previous active location to the staging area.

Action: Exhaust a character with a Weapon attachment to place 3 progress on Blocked Tunnel. (Any player may trigger this effect.)

Across the width and height of the tunnel a vast web was spun, orderly as the web of some huge spider... -The Two Towers

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.

Forced: After the players travel to The Brown Lands, place 1 progress token on it.

They had come to the Brown Lands that lay, vast and desolate, between Southern Mirkwood and the hills of the Emyn Muil. What pestilence or war or evil deed of the Enemy had so blasted all that region even Aragorn could not tell.
–The Fellowship of the Ring

When faced with the option to travel, the players must travel to The East Bight if there is no active location.

"...to the east the lands are waste, and full of Sauron's creatures..."
–Haldir, 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

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

Doomed 1. Surge.

"I alone of you have ever been in the dungeons of the Dark Lord, and only in his older and lesser dwelling in Dol Guldur."
–Gandalf, The Fellowship of the Ring

Forced: After travelling to Tower Gate each player places the top card of his deck, face down in front of him, as if it just engaged him from the staging area. These cards are called 'Orc Guard', and act as enemies with: 1 hit point, 1 and 1

"I myself dared to pass the doors of the Necromancer in Dol Guldur, and secretly explored his ways."
–Gandalf, The Fellowship of the Ring

Forced: If Banks of the Anduin leaves play, return it to the top of the encounter deck instead of placing it in the discard pile.

Here and there through openings Frodo could catch sudden glimpses of rolling mounds, and far beyond them hills in the sunset, and away on the edge of sight a dark line, where marches the southernmost ranks of the Misty Mountains.
–The Fellowship of the Ring

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 locations in the staging area.

Travel: Each player must discard 1 random card from his hand to travel here.

Response: After you travel to Forest Gate the first player draws 2 cards.

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

Quest Action: Search the encounter deck and discard pile for a Spider enemy and put it into play engaged with you to discard Spider Den. (Any player may trigger this effect.)

Travel: Reveal the top card of the encounter deck to travel here.

Response: When Goblin Trail leaves play as an explored location, place 6 progress on the current quest.

While Goblin Tunnels is in the staging area, it gains:"Forced: After a Goblin is revealed from the encounter deck, remove a progress token from the current quest card."

Shadow: Attacking enemy gets +1 (+3 instead if attacking enemy is a Goblin.)

Travel: Players must exhaust a Cave Torch to travel here.

Shadow: Cancel all combat damage dealt to attacking enemy.

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.

While Collapsed Mine is in the staging area, no more than 4 progress can be placed on the quest each round.

Shadow: Raise your threat by 1 for each point of damage dealt by this attack.

Travel: Reveal the top card of the encounter deck to travel here.

Response: After Goblin Dungeon leaves play as an explored location, the first player searches the top 5 cards of his deck for an ally and puts it into play under his control. Shuffle the rest of the searched cards back into his deck.

X is the number of ally cards in play.

Shadow: Discard from play all allies with a printed cost lower than the number of Riverland locations in play.

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.