While the players are at stage 1, progress cannot be placed here.
While The One Ring is exhausted, Weather Hills gets +2
Shadow: Attacking enemy gets +2 
While Western Emyn Muil is in the staging area, each Uruk-hai enemy at this stage gains Toughness 1.
Travel: A player at this stage must engage the highest toughness enemy in the staging area to travel here.
Response: After the players travel here, place 1 non-unique enemy in play facedown under this location. While an enemy is under this location, it is out of play.
Forced: After this location leaves play, return each enemy under it to the staging area face-up.
When Revealed: Attach to the Ring-bearer. (Counts as a Condition attachment with the text:"Forced: At the beginning of each quest phase, either exhaust The One Ring or reveal and additional encounter card this phase.")
Once more the desire to slip on the Ring came over Frodo... –The Fellowship of the Ring
Action: Choose a Gondor hero. Add 1 resource to that hero's resource pool.
Kings made tombs more splendid than houses of the living, and counted old names in the rolls of their descent dearer than the names of sons. –The Two Towers
Action: Discard the top 2 cards of your deck. You may attach 1 attachment card discarded by this effect to an eligible Dwarf character in play.
Gimli the Dwarf alone wore openly a short shirt of steel–rings, for dwarves make light of burdens...
–The Fellowship of the Ring
When Revealed: Reveal 1 encounter card for each quest card in play.
Shadow: Defending player discards 1 attachment for each quest card in play.
Play only if you control a unique character with the Noble trait and another unique character with the Scout trait.
Response: After a player engages an enemy, reduce his threat by X, where X is that enemy's printed
...the Captains of the West were well warned by their scouts...
–The Return of the King
After seeing his village destroyed by Sauron's Orcs, Kahliel has decided to travel north with you to Gondor. But it is a long road, and you will need mounts to ride. So your Haradrim allies have led you into the great jungle of Harad in search of the might Mumakil.
Setup: Set each copy of Wild Mûmak and each Capture objective aside, out of play. Each player adds 1 different location to the staging area. Shuffle the encounter deck.
The jungle is full of danger. The Haradrim warn you to stay alert lest the hunters become the hunted.
Forced: After the active location leaves play as an explored location, shuffle 1 set aside Wild Mûmak into the encounter deck.
The players cannot advance unless the number of Wild Mûmak in play is equal to the number of players.
When Revealed: Each player must choose: either City Guard makes an attack against you, or raise your threat by X, where X is 1 more than the number of allies you control.
Shadow: Attacking enemy gets +1 If this attack destroys a character, excess damage must be assigned among characters you control.
Attach to the hero with The One Ring.
Limit 1 per hero. Attached hero gets + 1 hit point.
Response: At the beginning of the round, exhaust The One Ring and raise your threat by 1 to heal all damage from attached hero.
Response: After the players travel here, place 1 non-unique enemy in play facedown under this location. While an enemy is under this location, it is out of play.
Forced: After this location leaves play, return each enemy under it to the staging area face-up.
When Revealed: Attach to the Ring-bearer. (Counts as a Condition attachment with the text:"Forced: At the beginning of each quest phase, either exhaust The One Ring or reveal and additional encounter card this phase.")
Once more the desire to slip on the Ring came over Frodo... –The Fellowship of the Ring
Travel: Discard the top card of the encounter deck. Raise each player's threat by X, where X is that card's printed
Shadow: If this attack destroys a character, reveal the top card of the encounter deck.
When Revealed: Reveal the topmost Spider enemy in the encounter discard pile and add it to the staging area.
Shadow: The player guarding Gollum must discard all resources from each of his heroes' resource pools.
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Forced: After Ash Mountain Werewolf attacks you, discard the top card of your deck (top 2 cards instead if this attack destroyed a character).
Shadow: If this attack destroys a character, discard the top 2 cards of your deck.
If the players have crossed the Anduin, Captured Watchtower gets +3 .
Shadow: Remove all defending characters from combat. This attack is considered undefended.
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Forced: After Savage Werewolf is dealt a shadow card with no shadow effect, it makes an additional attack after this one. (Do not deal it a shadow card.)
Shadow: Attacking enemy makes an additional attack against you after this one.
Action: Choose a player. Shuffle that player's discard pile back into his deck. Remove Will of the West from the game.
"If Gondor has such men still in these days of fading, great must have been its glory in the days of its rising."
–Legolas, The Return of the King
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
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Discard 2 cards from your hand to put Elven Jeweler into play from your hand, under your control.
"...to the Elven–smiths they were but trifles..." –Gandalf, The Fellowship of the Ring
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Cannot attack or defend.
Response: After Galadhrim Weaver enters play, shuffle the top card of your discard pile into your deck.
"You are indeed high in the favour of the Lady! For she herself and her maidens wove this..." –Lórien Elf, The Fellowship of the Ring
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Knight of the White Tower's resource cost must be paid from a single hero's resource pool.
"...to be only a man of arms of the Guard of the Tower of Gondor is held worthy in the City, and such men have honour in the land." –Beregond, The Return of the King
Attach to a character.
Attached character gets +1 .
Action: Exhaust Jewels of Wilderland and discard a card from your hand to draw a card.
To say that Bilbo's breath was taken away is no description at all. There are no words left to express his staggerment...
–The Hobbit
Attach to a hero.
Attached hero gets +1 (+2 instead if attacking an enemy with an engagement cost higher than your threat).
...these blades were forged many long years ago by Men of Westernesse: they were foes of the Dark Lord...
–The Fellowship of the Ring
When Revealed: Each ally gets -1 until the end of the round. Deal 2 damage to each ally with 0 willpower.
Shadow: Discard a non-objective attachment you control.
When Revealed: Each character commited to the quest gets -1 until the end of the round.
Shadow: Attacking enemy makes an additional attack against you after this one.
"I am weary as I have seldom been before, weary as no Ranger should be with a clear trail to follow." –Aragorn, The Two Towers
While Siege Tower is in the staging area, it gains Archery 3.
Forced: After Siege Tower becomes the active location, shuffle the encounter discard pile into the encounter deck and discard cards from the top until an enemy is discarded. Add the discarded enemy
Quest Action: Until the end of the phase, each Noble hero gets +1 Willpower and does not exhaust to
Immune to player card effects.
X is the number of characters controlled by the player with the most characters.
While Towers of the Teeth is the active location, players cannot play allies.
...now near loomed the great rampart of Cirith Gorgor, and the Black Gate amidmost, and the Two Towers of the Teeth tall and dark upon either side.
-The Return of the King
Action: Choose a player. Shuffle that player's discard pile back into his deck. Remove Will of the West from the game.
"If Gondor has such men still in these days of fading, great must have been its glory in the days of its rising."
–Legolas, The Return of the King
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
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Response: After Arwen Undómiel exhausts, choose a character. That character gains sentinel and gets +1 until the end of the round.
...in whom it was said that the likeness of Lúthien had come on earth again...for she was the Evenstar of her people.
–The Fellowship of the Ring
While The West Bank is the active location, attachment and event 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, double this enemy's base for this attack.
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When Revealed: Goblin Follower engages the last player.
Shadow: attacking enemy gets +1 (+2 instead if attacking the last player.)
When Revealed: Each player may choose and discard 1 card at random from his hand. If all players did not discard 1 card, Fouled Well gains Surge.
Response: After another player plays an attachment on a hero you control, you may (choose 1):
- ready 1 of that player's heroes
- have that player draw 1 card
- lower that player's threat by 2.
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The first player gains control of Arwen Undómiel, as an ally.
Response: After Arwen Undómiel exhausts, choose a hero. Add 1 resource to that hero's resource pool.
If Arwen Undómiel leaves play, the players are defeated.
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The first player gains control of Arwen Undómiel, as an ally.
Response: After Arwen Undómiel, choose a hero. Add 1 resource to that hero's resource pool.
If Arwen Undómiel leaves play, the players are defeated.
When Revealed: The first player (choose 1): deals 1 damage to all allies in play and Followed by Night gains surge, or all enemies enaged with players make an immediate attack, if able.
Shadow: Return attacking enemy to the staging area after it attacks.
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Response: After Arwen Undómiel exhausts, choose a character. That character gains sentinel and gets +1 until the end of the round.
...in whom it was said that the likeness of Lúthien had come on earth again...for she was the Evenstar of her people.
–The Fellowship of the Ring
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If each hero you control belongs to the same sphere of influence, you may assign damage from undefended enemy attacks to White Tower Watchman instead of a hero you control.
The watchmen cried aloud, and all men in the City stood to arms. –The Return of the King
To the Tower cannot leave the staging area.
Remove Faramir from the game.
If 10 or more progress tokens are on To the Tower, the players have lost the game.
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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.
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Discard 2 cards from your hand to put Elven Jeweler into play from your hand, under your control.
"...to the Elven–smiths they were but trifles..." –Gandalf, The Fellowship of the Ring
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Cannot attack or defend.
Response: After Galadhrim Weaver enters play, shuffle the top card of your discard pile into your deck.
"You are indeed high in the favour of the Lady! For she herself and her maidens wove this..." –Lórien Elf, The Fellowship of the Ring
When Revealed: You cannot flip the active location this round. If the active location is Underwater resolve its Forced effect as if it is the end of the quest phase. If there is no Underwater active location, Powerful Undertow gains doomed 3, instead.