during the quest phase.
Travel: Reshuffle all locations in the discard pile and victory display back into the encounter deck. If you reshuffled at least two locations, reduce each player's threat by 11 and discard all copies of Freezing Cold from play.
Response: After you travel to Ruined Road, the first player places 2 progress tokens on it or readies 1 hero controls.
Shadow: Return attacking enemy to the staging area after it attacks.
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
Forced: After at least 1 progress token in placed on Pathless Country, remove 1 progress token from it.
Shadow: Deal 1 damage to each ally in play.
While Barren Hills is the active location, ignore ambush.
Shadow: Return attacking enemy to the staging area after it attacks.
Progress tokens that would be placed on Doors of Durin are instead placed on the current quest card.
Action: Each player may discard any number of cards from his hand. Then, discard the top card of the encounter deck. If the first letter of the encounter card's title matches that of one of the discarded player cards, add Doors of Durin to your victory display. (Limit once per round.)
Travel: The first player must exhaust 2 characters to travel here.
Shadow: Remove 1 progress token from the current quest.
No more than 1 progress token can be placed on Perilous Swamp each round
Shadow: Remove 1 progress token from the current quest.
Forced: After you travel to Makeshift Passage, place 2 progress tokens on the current quest card, bypassing any active location.
They reached the strip of dry land between the lake and the cliffs: it was narrow, often hardly a dozen yards across, and encumbered with fallen rock and stones; but they found a way, hugging the cliff, and keeping as far from the dark water as they might.
–The Fellowship of the Ring
When Revealed: Discard the top card of the encounter deck. If the discarded card is a Tentacle enemy, add that card to the staging area and raise each player's threat by 5.
When they came to the northernmost corner of the lake they found a narrow creek that barreed their way. It was green and stagnant, thrust out like a slimy arm towards the enclosing hills.
–The Fellowship of the Ring
Lost: Return the top 2 Goblin enemies in the encounter discard pile to the staging area, if able.
"The wealth of Moria was not in gold and jewels, the toys of the Dwarves; nor in iron, their servant."
–Gandalf, The Fellowship of the Ring
Lost: Each player must choose and discard 1 card from his hand.
There hammer on the anvil smote,
There chisel clove, and graver wrote;
There forged was blade, and bount was hilt...
–The Fellowship of the Ring
Forced: Before placing progress tokens on Twisting Passage, the first player must make a locate test. If this test is failed, do not place any progress tokens on Twisting Passage and trigger all "Lost:" effects in play.
If Drowned Treasury is the active location at the end of the quest phase, each player must discard 1 character he controls.
Response: After Drowned Treasury leaves play as an explored location, each player may draw 2 cards or claim 1 objective in play.
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 Durin's Bane has no damage on it, progress tokens cannot be placed on Second Deep.
If Alcaronâs Scroll is attached to a hero, The Leaping Fish gains:
Forced: At the beginning of the quest phase discard X cards from the top of the encounter deck where X is the number of players in the game. Add each enemy discarded by this effect to the staging area.
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.
Immune to player card effects.
Travel: Each player must spend 1 resource from one of his heroesâ resource pools to travel here.
Shadow: Defending player discards all resources in his heroes' resource pools.
Immune to player card effects.
Shadow: Remove X progress tokens from the current quest, where X is the attacking enemy's .
"...the garden of Gondor now desolate kept still a dishevelled dryad loveliness." –The Two Towers
If an Orc enemy is in play, progress tokens cannot be placed on Orc War Camp while it is in the staging area.
Shadow: attacking enemy gets +1 for each shadow card dealt to it.
When Revealed: Place the top card of the underworld deck facedown underneath the active location, if able.
Each location in the staging area gets +2 quest points.
"Were it buried beneath the roots of Mindolluin, still it would burn your mind away..." –Gandalf, The Return of the King
Shadow: Attacking enemy gets +1 (+2 instead if undefended.)
Great stores of goods and food, and beer, were found that had been hidden away... –The Return of the King
Forced: After Houses of the Dead becomes the active location, exhaust all characters.
"The houses of the dead are no places for the living." –Gandalf, The Return of the King
X is the number of players in the game.
Response: When The Fourth Star leaves play as an explored location, each player may draw 1 card.
The cost to play each player card is increased by 1.
Travel: Exhaust a hero to travel here.
"They still haunt The DrĂșadan Forest..." –Elfhelm, The Return of the King
Heroes cannot gain resources from card effects.
Travel: Each player must pay 1 resource to travel here.
"...they use poisoned arrows, it is said..." – Elfhelm, The Return of the King
Each Wose enemy gains Archery 1.
X is equal to the total archery value of the highest archery Wose enemy in play.
"...they are woodcrafty beyond compare." –Elfhelm, The Return of the King
Forced: At the end of the round, discard 1 villager token from Burning Farmhouse.
Houses and barns were burning. –The Return of the King
While Gondorian Hamlet is in the staging area it gains:
Forced: After a treachery card is revealed from the encounter deck, discard 1 villager token from Gondorian Hamlet.
The townlands were rich, with wide tilth and many orchards... –The Return of the King
Travel: Reveal the top card of the encounter deck and add it to the staging area to travel here.
"...the herdsmen and husbandmen that dwelt there were not many..." –The Return of the King
Action: If there is no active location, search the encounter deck and discard pile for an Osgiliath location, reveal it and add it to the staging area. Then, make West Gate the active location. Shuffle the encounter deck.
Forced: After the player who controls West Gate lets an attack go undefended, return West Gate to the staging area.
Travel: Reveal the top card of the encounter deck and add it to the staging area to travel here.
Forced: After the player who controls The Kingâs Library lets an attack go undefended, return The Kingâs Library to the staging area.
"For that is the ruin of Osgiliath on either side of Anduin, which our enemies took and burned long ago."
–Beregond, The Return of the King
The players cannot travel here.
Combat Action: Exhaust a hero to place 1 progress token on Ancient Harbor.
Forced: After the player who controls Ancient Harbor lets an attack go undefended, return Ancient Harbor to the staging area.
The players cannot travel here.
Planning Action: Spend 2 resources to place 1 progress token on The Old Bridge. (1 resource instead if there is another Osgiliath location in the staging area.)
Forced: After the player who controls The Old Bridge lets an attack go undefended, return The Old Bridge to the staging area.
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.