While East Quarter is the active location, the current quest gains Battle.

Shadow: If this attack destroys a character, that character's controller must return a location he controls with the highest to the staging area.

Surge.

Response: After an enemy is defeated, place 1 progress token on Ruined Square.

Forced: If a player controls Ruined Square when a character leaves play, return Ruined Square to the staging area.

Travel: If there is 1 active location, exhaust a character to travel here. (There are now 2 active locations.)

Forced: After the player who controls Ruined Tower loses control of a location, return Ruined Tower to the staging area.

The current quest card gains Siege (and loses Battle).

X is the number of players in the game.

Travel: The first player must take 1 hidden card to travel here.

Travel: The first player must take 1 hidden card to travel here.

This road, too, ran straight for a while, but soon it began to bend away southwards...–The Two Towers

Western Road gets +5 quest points while it is in the staging area.

Travel: The first player must take 1 hidden card to travel here.

...he saw, beyond an arch of boughs, the road to Osgiliath running almost as straight as a streched ribbon down, down, into the West. –The Two Towers

Travel: The first player must take 1 hidden card to travel here.

Behind them lay the road to the Morannon...
–The Two Towers

Eastern Road gets +5 quest points while it is in the staging area.

Travel: The first player must take 2 hidden cards to travel here.

Black and forbidding it loomed above them, darker than the dark sky behind. –The Two Towers

Archery X.

X is the number of players in the game.

Forced: After The Dark Woods leaves play as an explored location, the first player discards 1 hidden card.

Response: After Morgul Road leaves play as an explored location, the first player may remove 1 progress token from To the Tower or deal 1 damage to any enemy in play.

Shadow: Return attacking enemy to the staging area after this attack.

Forced: At the end of the round, each player returns 1 enemy engaged with him to the staging area.

Shadow: If this attack destroys a character, place 1 progress token on To the Tower.

X is the number of progress tokens on To the Tower.

So they came slowly to the white bridge.
–The Two Towers

Immune to player card effects.

While The Islet is the active location, each Dunland enemy in play gets +1 .

There were three lines of flat stepping–stones across the stream, and between them fords for horses, that went from either brink to a bare eyot in the midst. –The Two Towers

While Fords of Isen is in the staging area, players cannot gain resources from card effects.

Forced: After Fords of Isen becomes the active location, each player with fewer than 5 cards in his hand draws cards until he has 5 in his hand.

The road dipped between rising turf–banks, carving its way through the terraces to the river's edge, and up again upon the further side. –The Two Towers

While any player has 3 or more cards in hand, The King’s Road gets +3 quest points.

While any player has 5 or more cards in hand, The King’s Road gains:

When faced with the option to travel, the players must travel to The King's Road if able.

While Gap of Rohan is in the staging area, Dunland enemies get +1

Shadow: Attacking enemy gets +1 . If this attack destroys a character, remove 1 time counter from the current quest.

While Methedras is the active location, each location in the staging area gets +1

Forced: When Methedras leaves play as an explored location, each player Searches 3.

Beyond there glimmered far away, as if floating on a grey cloud, the white head of tall Methedras, the last peak of the Misty Mountains. –The Two Towers

Forced: After Orc Cave leaves play as an explored location, the first player Searches 5.

Travel: Discard the top X cards of the encounter deck to travel here. X is the number of players in the game. Add each Orc enemy discarded this way to the staging area.

Forced: At the beginning of the encounter phase, reveal the top card of each player's out-of-play deck. Add each revealed enemy to the staging area and discard the rest.

Shadow: Defending player discards an attachment he controls.

Immune to player card effects.

Travel: Search the encounter deck and discard pile for a Huorn enemy and add it to the staging area to travel here (2 Huorn enemies instead if there are 3 or more players in the game).

"...we are on the very edge of Fangorn, and it is perilous to touch the trees of that wood, it is said."
–Aragorn, The Two Towers

While Heart of Fangorn is in the staging area, each player cannot refresh more than 5 characters during the refresh phase.

Attacking enemy makes an additional attack after this one.

While Ancient Forest is in the staging area, each Forest location in the staging area gets +1 and +3 quest points. This ability does not stack with other copies of Ancient Forest.

Shadow: Defending player exhausts a character he controls.

While Tangled Woods is in the staging area, each Forest location in plays gains:

Travel: Exhaust a hero to travel here.

This ability does not stack with other copies of Tangled Woods.

The forest was dark and close. –The Two Towers

While Broken Lands is in the staging area, progress cannot be placed on locations in the staging area.

Shadow: Attacking enemy gets +1 for each location in the staging area.

Dunland enemies get +1 and +1

...beyond them the green and tangled valley ran up into the long ravine between the dark arms of the mountains.
–The Two Towers

Forced: At the end of the refresh phase, remove 1 time counter from the current quest.

After some miles, however, the road ceased to roll up and down... –The Fellowship of the Ring

Surge.

X is the number of resource tokens on this card.

Forced: After a player draws any number of cards, place 1 resource token here.

While Hills of Dunland is in the staging area, it gains:

Forced: After a player draws any number of cards, discard the top card of the encounter deck. If the discarded card is a Dunland enemy, put it into play engaged with that player. This ability does not stack with other copies of Hills of Dunland.

Travel: Each player draws a card to travel here.

While Plains of Enedwaith is the active location, players do not draw a card during the resource phase.

Shadow: Attacking enemy gets +1 (+3 instead if undefended).

While Hithaeglir Stream is the active location, players draw 2 cards during the resource phase instead of 1.

Shadow: Attacking enemy gets +1 Attack. Deal it an additional shadow card.

Forced: When a Guardian enemy attacks, deal it 1 additional shadow card.

They heard of the Great Barrows, and the green mounds, and the stone–rings upon the hills and in the hollows among the hills. –The Fellowship of the Ring

The players, as a group, cannot have more than 5 allies in play. (If there are more than 5 allies in play, discard allies until only 5 remain.)

Raising himself on one arm he looked, and saw now in the pale light that they were in a kind of passage which behind them turned a corner. –The Fellowship of the Ring

Forced: After a Guardian enemy attacks, raise each player's threat by X, where X is that enemy's .

Stone rings grinned out of the ground like broken teeth in the moonlight. –The Fellowship of the Ring

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

Travel: The players must exhaust 3 Key objectives.

Forced: After the players travel here, each engaged Guardian enemy makes an immediate attack.

Travel: Search the encounter deck and discard pile for a Spirit enemy and add it to the staging area.

Shadow: If this attack destroys a character, remove a time counter from an enemy, if able.

Doomed 2.

X is the number of players in the game.

While Grim Foothills is in the staging area, progress must be placed on Grim Foothills before it can be placed on the active location.

Players cannot reduce their threat.

While The Empty Mug is in the victory display, the current quest gains:

Forced: After a player card effect reduces a player's threat, remove it from the game.

Immune to player card effects. Cannot leave the staging area.

The Crossing at Tharbad gets +2 quest points for each player in the game.

When The Crossing at Tharbad is explored, the players win the game.

Progress cannot be placed on Streets of Tharbad while it is in the staging area.

While Streets of Tharbad is the active location, enemies get -20 engagement cost.

As soon as his back was turned, a dark figure climbed quickly in over the gate and melted into the shadows of the village street. –The Fellowship of the Ring

Surge.

While Tharbad Hideout is the active location, time counters cannot be removed from the current quest.

Forced: At the beginning of the quest phase, place 1 progress on Tharbad Hideout.

While Ruins of the Second Age is in the staging area, City locations get +1 .

While Ruins of the Second Age is the active location, deal engaged enemies 1 additional shadow card at the beginning of the combat phase.

...as far as Tharbad, where the old North Road crossed the river by a ruined town. –The Fellowship of the Ring

Travel: Search the encounter deck and discard pile for a Spy enemy and add it to the staging area. Shuffle the encounter deck.

Shadow: Raise the defending player's threat by X, where X is the amount of damage dealt by this attack.

Travel: Raise each player's threat by X to travel here. X is the number of enemies in play.

Forced: After traveling to Hidden Alleyway, add 1 time counter to the current quest.

While Decrepit Rooftops is the active location, enemies get +1 and do not make engagement checks.

Forced: After traveling to Decrepit Rooftops, return all engaged enemies to the staging area.

While Fen of Reeds is in the staging area, it gains:

Forced: After the players advance to a quest stage, each player must exhaust a character he controls.

Shadow: Attacking enemy gets +1 for each time counter on the quest.

While Finger of Glanduin is in the staging area, it gains:

Forced: At the end of each round, remove 1 progress from each location in play.

Shadow: If this attack destroys a character remove all progress from the current quest.

Response: After Hidden Eyot leaves play as an explored location, place 2 time counters on the current quest.

Travel: Each player must exhaust a character he controls to travel here.

While Sinking Bog is in the staging area, each character gets -1 -1 and -1 for each Item attached to it. This ability does not stack with other copies of Sinking Bog.

Shadow: Defending character gets -1 for this attack for each attachment attached to it.

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

Travel: Remove 3 progress from the current quest to travel here.

If The Secret Chamber is placed underneath The Orcs’ Search, the players lose the game.

Forced: After Ruined Plaza enters the staging area, place 1 damage here.

Shadow: Defending player assigns X damage amoung characters he controls. X is the number of cards underneath The Orcs’ Search.