Descendant of Thorondor cannot have restricted attachments.
Response: After Descendant of Thorondor enters or leaves play, deal 2 damage to any 1 enemy in the staging area.
Action: Exhaust and discard The Riddermark’s Finest to place 2 progress tokens on any location.
"And there are no horses like the ones that are bred in that great vale between the Misty Mountains and the White."
–Gandalf, The Fellowship of the Ring
Ranged.Vassal of the Windlord cannot have restricted attachments.
Forced: After an attack in which Vassal of the Windlord attacked resolves, discard Vassal of the Windlord from play.
Forced: Remove 2 damage from Giant Marsh Worm at the end of each round.
Escape: 2
"No birds here. There are snakeses, wormses, things in the pools. Lot of things, lots of nasty things."
–Gollum, The Two Towers
Eagles of the Misty Mountains cannot have restricted attachments. Eagles of the Misty Mountains gets +1 and +1 for each facedown attachment it has.
Response: After another Eagle character leaves play, you may attach that card facedown to Eagles of the Misty Mountains.
Damage from undefended attacks against you must be dealt to Gollum. If Gollum is destroyed, or if the player guarding Gollum is eliminated, the players have lost the game.
Forced: At the end of each round, raise the threat of the player guarding Gollum by 3. Then, that player may choose a new player to guard Gollum.
Forced: At the beginning of the encounter phase, Attercop, Attercop automatically engages the player guarding Gollum, regardless of his threat.
"Attercop! Attercop! Won't you stop..."
–Bilbo Baggins, The Hobbit
If Mountain Warg is dealt a shadow card with no effect, return Mountain Warg to the staging area after it attacks.
Shadow: attacking enemy gets +1 (+2 instead if a Mountain is the active location.)
Allies cannot defend while Snow Warg is attacking.
Forced: After a character is declared as a defender against Snow Warg, deal 1 damage to the defending character, if able.
Regenerate 2. While there is another Tentacle enemy in play, The Watcher cannot be optionally engaged.
If The Watcher is in the staging area at the end of the combat phase, each player must deal 3 damage to 1 character he controls.
When Revealed: The first player draws 1 card. Then, that player must choose and discard 4 cards from his hand, if able.
Forced: After Cave Spider engages a player, that player must choose and discard 1 card from his hand, if able.
Rock Adder cannot be attacked unless it has dealt at least 1 damage this round.
Shadow: If this attack is undefended, the defending player must discard 1 character he controls from play.
Only characters with ranged can attack or defend against Moria Bats.
While Moria Bats is engaged with a player, it gets +1 for each other enemy engaged with that player.
When Revealed: Until the end of the round, Morgul Spider gets +1 for each character not currently committed to a quest.
Far and wide her lesser broods, bastards of the miserable mates, her own offspring, that she slew, spread from glen to glen... –The Two Towers
When Revealed: The first player deals 2 damage to a questing hero and removes that hero from the quest.
Shadow: Defending player raises his threat by X where X is the attacking enemy's .
No attachments can be attached to Mûmak.
Mûmak cannot take more than 3 damage each round.
"His upturned hornlike tusks were bound with bands of gold and dripped with blood." –The Two Towers
When Revealed: Discard the character with the fewest remaining hit points. That character's controller may discard 3 cards at random from his hand to prevent this effect.
Eagles are not kindly birds. Some are cowardly and cruel. –The Hobbit
Forced: When Evil Crow engages a player, that player takes 1 hidden card.
Shadow: Take 1 hidden card.
Cannot have restricted attachments.
Response: After Gwaihir enters play, search your discard pile for an Eagle ally and put it into play under your control. At the end of the round, if that ally is still in play, add it to your hand.
"The North Wind blows, but we shall outfly it." –Gwaihir, The Return of the King
Cannot have attachments.
Ancient Marsh-dweller gets +1 and +1 for each resource token on it.
Forced: After any number of time counters are removed from the current quest, place a resource token here.
Cannot have attachments.
Forced: After any number of time counters are removed from the current quest, Giant Swamp Adder attacks the engaged player.
There were also abominable creatures haunting the reeds and tussocks... –The Fellowship of the Ring
Forced: After any number of time counters are removed from the current quest, the engaged player must deal 2 damage to an ally he controls.
Shadow: Deal 1 damage to the defending character.
Cannot have attachments.
Cannot be optionally engaged.
Forced: After Pack Leader engages you, exhaust a character you control for each Warg enemy engaged with you.
When Revealed: Each Warg enemy gets +1 until the end of the phase.
Shadow: After this attack, attacking enemy engages the next player, then makes an immediate attack (deal a new shadow card for that attack).
While Blood-thirsty Warg is in the staging area, it gains:
Forced: When it becomes Night, Blood-thirsty Warg engages the first player and makes an immediate attack.
The wold snarled and sprang towards them with a great leap.
–The Fellowship of the Ring
Cannot have attachments.
While a player is making an engagement check against Hunting Pack, it gets -1 engagement cost for each damaged character that player controls.
"...who now will wish to journey south by night with the wild wolves on his tail?" –Gandalf, The Fellowship of the Ring
Forced: After White Warg engages you, deal 1 damage to a character you control (2 damage instead if it is Night).
Shadow: If it is Night, attacking enemy makes an additional attack after this one.
While it is Night, Wolf of Angmar gets +2
Shadow: Attacking enemy gets +1 (+2 instead if it is Night).
Forced: After an event card is played, deal 1 shadow card to Werewolf of Angmar.
Forced: If there are 3 shadow cards dealt to Werewolf of Angmar and it is in the staging area, it engages the first player and makes an immediate attack (do not deal it a shadow card for this attack).
Immune to player card effects. Cannot be engaged.
The Thing in the Depths gets +3 hit points per player.
Forced: When a Creature enemy is destroyed, deal damage to The Thing in the Depths equal to that enemy's
Eye of the Beast cannot attack.
While Eye of the Beast is engaged with a player, The Thing in the Depths attacks that player during the combat phase (deal and resolve a shadow card for this attack).
Grapple ( lowest printed Threat ).
Forced: At the end of the combat phase, if Thrashing Arm is engaged with you, deal 3 damage to a character you control.
Surge. Grapple ( highest printed quest points ).
Forced: After Crushing Arm is detached from a location, it makes an immediate attack against the first player.
Grapple ( highest printed Threat ).
Forced: When Grasping Arm attacks, the engaged player must exhaust a character he controls.
Shadow: If this attack is undefended, resolve Grasping Arm's Grapple keyword.
Grapple ( lowest printed quest points ).
Giant Arm gets +2 when attacking allies.
Shadow: After this attack, either put Giant Arm into play engaged with you and deal it a shadow card, or resolve its Grapple ability.
Sea-scorpion gets +2 if the active location is underwater.
Shadow: Attacking enemy gets +1 (+2 instead if the active location is Underwater).
Cave Eel cannot be engaged unless the active location is underwater.
Forced: At the beginning of the encounter phase, return Cave Eel to the staging area unless the active location is Underwater.
Carrior Birds gets -1 engagement cost for each damaged character in play.
Forced: After Carrion Bird engages you, discard a damaged character you control.
X is the tens digit of the temperature.
Forced: After Were-worm engages you, it makes an immediate attack. (Do not deal it a shadow card.)
Shadow: Attacking enemy gets +1 (+2 instead if the temperature is 40 or higher).
Players cannot declare defenders against Sand Viper.
Forced: After the players travel to a location, Sand Viper engages the first player.
To some suddenly it seemed that they saw a snake coiling itself to strike.
–The Two Towers
Forced: After Giant Scorpion damages a character, that character cannot ready until the end of the round.
Shadow: If this attack deals damage, the defending character cannot ready until the end of the round.
When Revealed: Attach to an Orc enemy and return that enemy to the staging area. Limit 1 per enemy. (Counts as a Mount attachment with the text: "Attached enemy gets +2 +2 +2 and +2 hit points.
Forced: When attached enemy leaves play, add Mordor Warg to the staging area."
Indestructible. Immune to player card effects.
Cannot take more tha 3 damage each round.
Forced: At the end of the round, the engaged player must choose: either return Wild Mûmak to the staging area, or it makes an immediate attack.
Cannot be optionally engaged.
Forced: After Harad Tiger attacks and destroys a character, return it to the staging area.
Shadow: Attacking enemy makes an additional attack against you after this one.
Territorial Ape gets +X and + X where X is the of the active location.
Shadow: Attacking enemy gets +1 (+2 instead if a location was explored this round).