Forced: After The Storehouse becomes the active location, add the enemy under it to the staging area. That enemy gets +3
and -30 engagement cost until the end of the round.
Forced: When The Storehouse is explored, the first player gains control of the objective ally it was guarding.
Setup: Attach to the Ring-bearer.
Action: Add Mr. Underhill to the victory display to choose an enemy engaged with you. Until the end of the round, that enemy cannot attack you.
"I will give you a travelling name now. When you go, go as Mr. Underhill."
–Gandalf, The Fellowship of the Ring
While Woody End is the active location, reduce each Hide X value by 1.
At the south end of the greensward there was an opening. There the green floor ran on into the wood, and formed a wide space like a hall, roofed by the boughs of trees.
–The Fellowship of the Ring
When Revealed: Immediately travel to Stock-brook. If another location is currently active, return it to the staging area.
"Why, this is the Stock–brook!" said Pippin. "If we are going to try and get back on to our course, we must cross at once and bear right." –The Fellowship of the Ring
Response: After players travel here, the first player puts 1 ally into play from his hand.
Forced: After The Prancing Pony leaves play, discard cards from the top of the encounter deck until X enemies have been discarded. X is the number of players in the game. Put each enemy discarded by this effect into play engaged with the first player.
While Midgewater is the active location, enemies cannot attack, take damage, or be engaged.
Forced: After Midgewater becomes the active location, return each engaged enemy in play to the staging area.
...there was no permanent trail even for Rangers to find through their shifting quagmires.
–The Fellowship of the Ring
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Players cannot optionally engage Bill Ferny.
Forced: At the beginning of the staging step, either shuffle 1 out of play Ringwraith into the encounter deck or each player raises their threat by 1 for each non-
hero he committed to the quest.
While The Troll's Camp is the active location, each hero gets +1 
+1 and +1 .
"We are forgetting our family history! These must be the very three that were caught by Gandalf, quarrelling over the right way to cook thirteen dwarves and one hobbit."
–Frodo, The Fellowship of the Ring
Immune to player card effects.
Forced: When Redhorn Pass is explored, each player assigns X damage among characters he controls. X is the number of damage here.
"We may well be seen by watchers on that narrow path..." –Gandalf, The Fellowship of the Ring
Immune to player card effects.
Progress cannot be placed on each other active location before it can be placed here. Progress cannot be placed here unless the first player controls the Ring-bearer.
If there are 9 damage tokens, the players lose the game.
Immune to player card effects.
Travel: Search the encounter deck and discard pile for an enemy and add it to the staging area to travel here. Shuffle the encounter deck.
While Parth Galen is in play, the players cannot win the game.
Immune to player card effects.
Response: When Seat of Seeing is explored, choose a burden card in play, in the encounter deck, or in the discard pile, and remove it from the game. Shuffle the encounter deck. (If you are playing campaign mode, remove that card from the campaign pool.)
Immune to player card effects. X is the number of players in the game.
The players cannot travel here while Sarn Gebir is in play. While The Argonath is the active location, skip the combat phase.
"Behold the Argonath, the Pillars of the Kings!"
-Aragorn, The Fellowship of the Ring
Immune to player card effects.
Forced: When Sarn Gebir is explored, deal 1 damage to each exhausted character.
"Boats of the Elves would not sink, maybe." he said, "but that does not say that we should come through Sarn Gebir alive. None have ever done so yet." –Boromir, The Fellowship of the Ring
Immune to player card effects.
Forced: When the Gates of Isengard is explored, each player searches the encounter deck and discard pile for an enemy and puts it into play engaged with him. Shuffle the encounter deck.
Here through the black rock a long tunnel had been hewn, close at either end with mighty doors of iron. –The Two Towers
While Henneth Ann–n is the active location, skip both the encounter phase and combat phase, and ignore the Forced effects on stage 1B and The Black Gate.
Forced: After Henneth Ann–n becomes the active location, return each engaged enemy to the staging area.
"This is the Window of the Sunset, Henneth Ann–n, fairest of all the falls of Ithilien..." -Faramir, The Two Towers
If the players have crossed the Anduin, Pelennor Fields gains:
When faced with the option to travel, the players must either travel to Pelennor Fields or raise each player's threat by 3.
While Tarlang's Next is the active location, it gains,"Forced: At the beginning of the encounter phase, the players must either immediately end the encounter phase, or the first player must engaged all enemies in the staging area."
While Strange Woods is in the staging area, characters cannot be healed.
Shadow: Attacking enemy gets +1 If this attack destroys a character, raise each player's threat by 2.
Setup: The first player attaches Old Bogey-stories to a hero in play.
Action: Add Old Bogey-stories to the victory display to shuffle your hand of at least 6 cards into your deck. Then, draw 6 cards.
"If you mean the old bogey–stories Fatty's nurses used to tell him, about goblins and wolves and things of that sort, I should say no." –Merry, The Fellowship of the Ring
Setup: The first player adds this card to his hand.
Response: Add this card to the victory display and remove it from the campaign pool to cancel the "when revealed" effects of an encounter card just revealed from the encounter deck.
By fire, sun and moon, harken now and hear us!
Come, Tom Bombadil, for our need is near us!
–Frodo, The Fellowship of the Ring
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While Savage Hill-troll is in the victory display, each Troll enemy gets +1 hit point.
Shadow: If attacking enemy is a Troll defending character does not ready during the refresh phase this round.
As the presence draws near, doubt and fear surround you like a vast shadow. You must find daylight, your must escape from the Black Pit...
While Search for an Exit is the active quest card, only flip it to side 2B at the beginning of the staging step.
The Nameless Fear attacks each player in turn order during the combat phase (deal and discard a shadow card for each attack). Characters are eligible to attack The Nameless Fear while it is in the staging area.
If The Nameless Fear has 10 or more damage on it, remove all damage from it and advance to the next stage. Players may bypass this quest card at the end of the combat phase.
As the presence draws near, doubt and fear surround you like a vast shadow. You must find daylight, your must escape from the Black Pit...
While Search for an Exit is the active quest card, only flip it to side 2B at the beginning of the staging step.
When Revealed: Deal 1 damage to each questing character.
Players may bypass this quest card at the end of the combat phase.
"As I stood there I could hear orc–voices on the other side: at any moment I though they would burst it open. I could not hear what was said; they seemed to be talking in their own hideous language. All I caught was ghâsh: that is 'fire'."
–Gandalf, The Fellowship of the Ring
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While Snow-Giant is in the staging area, it attacks the first player during the combat phase, as if it were engaged.
Forced: After Snow-Giant engages you, discard the ally you control with the highest
Forced: When any amount of progress is placed on a location in the staging area, discard 1 villager token from that location.
Travel: The first player searches the encounter deck for an enemy, reveals it, and puts it into play engaged with him. Shuffle the encounter deck.
While Overrun Village is in the staging area, it gains:"Forced: After an enemy engages a player, discard 1 villager token from Overrun Village."
Travel: Place 1 damage token on Dead Villagers.
Aflame 10. Immune to player card effects.
Forced: After the first player plays an ally from his hand, deal 1 damage to the N relenya.
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For each point of excess damage dealt by Undersea Cave Troll (damage that has been dealt beyond the remaining hit points of the character damaged by its attack) discard 1 resource from one of your objective-allies or from one of your heroes' resource pools.