While Shrine to Morgoth is the active location, players cannot draw cards or search their decks.

Forced: After Shrine to Morgoth is flipped over while active, exhaust each ally in play with printed cost 2 or less. Then, each player must search the encounter deck and discard pile for an Undead enemy and put it into play engaged with him. Shuffle the encounter deck.

While Lush Jungle is in the staging area, characters get -1 and lose ranged.

Forced: After Lush Jungle is flipped over while active, return it to the staging area unless each player exhausts each ready hero he controls.

Forced: After Forbidden Coast is flipped over while active, each player may draw a card. Then, each player chooses a card from his hand and places it on the bottom of his deck.

While Flooded Ruins is the active location, it contributes its to the staging area.

Númenor was thrown down and swallowed in the sea... -The Return of the King

Forced: After Drowned Graves is flipped to this side while active, discard the top X cards of the encounter deck. Each player adds an Undead enemy discarded from this effect to the staging area. X is 2 more than the number of players in the game.

...their years lessened as their fear of death grew, and their joy departed. -The Return of the King

While Cursed Temple is the active location, characters with less than 2 do not ready during the refresh phase.

It was not long before he had bewitched the King and was master of his counsel... -The Return of the King

Forced: When The Grotto's Entrance is flipped over while active, put Temple Guardian into play from the victory display, engaged with the player with the highest threat.

When the 8th progress is placed on The Grotto's Entrance, the players have found the sunken ruins and win the game.

While Temple Halls is the active location, each character gets -1 and -1

Forced: When Temple Halls is flipped over while active, put Temple Guardian into play from the victory display, engaged with the player with the highest threat.

While Jagged Cliffs is the active location, the location to its right is not considered to be in the staging area.

Forced: When Jagged Cliffs is flipped over while active, look at the facedown side of each adjacent copy of Lost Island.

While Winding Caverns is the active location, each enemy gets +10 engagement cost.

When you travel from Winding Caverns to another location, you may travel to a location up to 3 locations away. (You must still pay that location's Travel cost in order to travel there.)

While Jungle Path is the active location, the locations immediately above and below it are not considered to be in the staging area.

Forced: When Jungle Path is flipped over while active, each player must exhaust a character with at least 2

While Shrine to Morgoth is the active location, players cannot draw cards or search their decks.

Forced: After Shrine to Morgoth is flipped over while active, exhaust each ally in play with printed cost 2 or less. Then, each player must search the encounter deck and discard pile for an Undead enemy and put it into play engaged with him. Shuffle the encounter deck.

While Cursed Temple is the active location, characters with less than 2 do not ready during the refresh phase.

It was not long before he had bewitched the King and was master of his counsel... -The Return of the King

Forced: After Drowned Graves is flipped to this side while active, discard the top X cards of the encounter deck. Each player adds an Undead enemy discarded from this effect to the staging area. X is 2 more than the number of players in the game.

...their years lessened as their fear of death grew, and their joy departed. -The Return of the King

While Flooded Ruins is the active location, it contributes its to the staging area.

Númenor was thrown down and swallowed in the sea... -The Return of the King

While Lush Jungle is in the staging area, characters get -1 and lose ranged.

Forced: After Lush Jungle is flipped over while active, return it to the staging area unless each player exhausts each ready hero he controls.

Each Undead enemy gets +1 and +1

Forced: After Desecrated Grounds is flipped over while active, deal 1 damage to each exhausted character.

Each Undead enemy gains "immune to player card effects."

Forced: After Forsaken City is flipped over while active, each engaged Undead enemy makes an immediate attack.

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 Númenor
–The Return of the King

While Temple Foothills is the active location, the players, as a group, cannot play more than 1 card each round.

Forced: When Cursed Temple is flipped over while active, discard 3 cards at random from each player's hand.

While Cursed Temple is the active location, each player cannot draw cards by card effects.