Planning Action: Exhaust The One Ring to add 1 resource to a hero's pool.

"I must carry the burden to the end."
–The Return of the King

Sentinel. The first player gains control of Aragorn.

Action: Spend 1 resource from Aragorn's pool to ready him. (Limit once per phase.)

If Aragorn leaves play the players lose the game.

“As I have begun, so I will go on.”
–The Return of the King

Response: After Éomer commits to the quest, spend 1 resource from his resource pool to immediately declare him as an attacker (and resolve his attack) against an enemy in the staging area.

...he was young, and he was king; the lord of a fell people.
–The Return of the King

While you are engaged with an enemy with an engagement cost higher than your threat, the first Hobbit ally you play each round does not require a resource match.

Response: After a Hobbit ally enters play, it gets +2 until the end of the round.

Action: Exhaust Rosie Cotton to choose a Hobbit hero and an attribute Add Rosie Cotton's to that hero's chosen attribute until the end of the phase. (Limit once per phase.)

Action: Spend 1 resource from a Rohan hero's resource pool to put Elfhelm into play from your hand under your control. At the end of the phase, discard Elfhelm if he is still in play.

"...my lord sends word that we must set ourselves in readiness; orders may come for a sudden move."
–The Return of the King

While Elrohir is in play, Elladan gets +2

Response: After you optionally engage an Orc enemy, ready Elladan.

...they rode often far afield with the Rangers of the North, forgetting never their mother's torment in the dens of the Orcs. –The Return of the King

While Elladan is in play, Elrohir gets +2

Response: After you optionally engage an Orc enemy, ready Elrohir.

"From the North we came with this purpose, and from Elrond our father we brought this very counsel."
–The Return of the King

Quest Action: Until the end of the phase, each Noble hero gets +1 and does not exhaust to commit to the quest.

Response: After you engage an enemy, search the top 5 cards of your deck for a Hobbit ally and put it into play (search you entire deck instead if that enemy's engagement cost is higher than your threat). Shuffle your deck. At the end of the round, if that ally is still in play, return it to your hand.

Attach to a Rohan hero. Restricted.

Response: After attached hero is declared as an attacker, exhaust Gúthwinë to give that hero +2 for this attack. If this attack destroys an enemy, return a Rohan ally from your discard pile to your hand.

“Gúthwinë!” cried Éomer. “Gúthwinë for the Mark!”
–The Two Towers

Attach to a Hobbit hero. Limit 2 copies of Friend of Friends in play.

While another hero has Friend of Friends attached, attached hero gets +1 +1 +1 and +1 hit point.

"Come, Mr. Frodo!" he cried, "I can't carry it for you, but I can carry you and it as well"
–Sam Gamgee, The Return of the King

Attach to the Ring-bearer. Limit 1 per hero.

While an Orc is making an enagement check with you, it gets +5 engagement cost.

Response: After an Orc engages you, discard Orc Disguise. Until the end of the round, that enemy cannot attack you.

Attached hero gains the Ring-bearer trait and the sphere. You cannot lose control of the first player token.

Action: Exhaut The One Ring and raise your threat by 1 to choose an enemy. Until the end of the phase, that enemy gets -X where X is the attached hero's

Immune to player card effect.

The players cannot travel here unless there is at least 18 progress on stage 2B.

Travel: Add Shagrat to the staging area to travel here.

"That's what I'm going to do," said Shagrat in angry tones. "Put him up in the top chamber."
–The Return of the King

Echoing Passage gets +1 for each enemy in the staging area.

While Echoing Passage is the active location, each enemy gets +2

Many doors and openings could be seen on this side and that; but it was empty save for two or three more bodies sprawling on the floor.
–The Return of the King

While Bloodied Courtyard is the active location, it gains:"Forced: After an enemy enters the staging area, deal 1 damage to it."

Travel: Raise each player's threat by 1 to travel here.

At once he saw that up here the fighting has been fiercest. All the court was choked with dead orcs or their severed and scattered heads and limbs. The place stank of death.
–The Return of the King

While Winding Stairs is the active location, each enemy in the staging area gets +10 engagement cost.

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

The stairs were high and steep and winding.
–The Return of the King

Forced: After the players travel to Torch-lit Hall, discard cards from the top of the encounter deck until an enemy is discarded. If there is a copy of that enemy in the staging area, discard that copy as well. If there is not, add the just discarded enemy to the staging area.

It was dimly lit with torches flaring in brackets on the walls, but its distant end was lost in gloom.
–The Return of the King

Cannot have attachments. Cannot take non-combat damage.

Allies cannot attack or defend against Shagrat.

Forced: After progress is placed on the quest, Shagrat gets -X engagement cost until the end of the round. X is the amount of progress just placed.

Cannot have attachments.

Forced: After Gorbag engages you, it makes an immediate attack.

Shadow: Attacking enemy makes an additional attack against you after this one.

Wounded Uruk enters play with 2 damage on it.

Forced: After Wounded Uruk engages you, it gets +2 until the end of the round.

Shadow: Attacking enemy gets +1 for each damage on it.

When Revealed: Deal 1 damage to each enemy in the staging area. Until the end of the phase, each enemy gets +1 for each damage on it. If there are no enemies in the staging area, Orcish Howls gains surge.

Shadow: If you are engaged with another enemy, resolve this attack against that enemy.

Immune to player card effects. The players cannot travel here.

The Black Gate gets +1 for each resource on it.

Forced: At the beginning of the quest phase, place 1 resource here and raise each player's threat by 1.

The great doors of the Black Gate swung back wide. Out of it streamed a great host as swiftly as swirling waters when a sluice is lifted.
–The Return of the King

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

While Beleaguered Hills is the active location, reduce the total in the staging area by X, where X is the total of each engaged enemy.

Forced: After Beleaguered Hills becomes the active location, each player engages a non-unique enemy in the staging area.

The onslaught of Mordor broke like a wave on the beleaguered hills... –The Return of the King

While Waste of Dagorlad is the active location, treat the printed text box of each ally as if it were blank (except for Traits).

SO desolate were those places and so deep the horror that lay on them that some of the host were unmanned.
–The Return of the King

Forced: When Slopes of Cirith Gorgor leaves play. the first player shuffles the encounter discard pile into the encounter deck and discards cards from the top until an enemy is discarded. Then, he puts that enemy into play engaged with him.

...they knew that all the hills and rocks about the Morannon were filled with hidden foes...
–The Return of the King

Forced: After Reeking Moat becomes the active location, choose a non-unique, non-Nazgûl enemy in the staging area and place it facedown under Reeking Moat.

Forced: When Reeking Moat leaves play, put each enemy under it into play engaged with the first player.

...towards Mordor lay like a moat a great mire of reeking mud and foul–smelling pools.
–The Return of the King

While Wall of Morannon is the active location, each enemy and location in the staging area is immune to player card effects.

Forced: After Wall of Morannon becomes of the active location, return each engaged enemy to the staging area.

...behind the Morannon were the tunnels and deep armouries that the servants of Mordor had made for the defence of the Black Gate...
–The Return of the King

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

Forced: After a player cancels a 'when revealed' effect, The Mouth of Sauron makes an immediate attack against that player.

The Lieutenant of the Tower of Barad–d–r he was...
–The Return of the King

Cannot have non-Morgul attachments.

Forced: After Nazgûl of Mordor attacks, either raise your threat by 4, or return Nazgûl of Mordor to the staging area.

...out of the gathering mirk the Nazgûl came with their cold voices crying words of death; and then all hope was quenched.
–The Return of the King

Cannot have attachments.

Forced: After Gorgoroth Hill-troll attacks and destroys a character, the defending player discards a random card from his and hand and raises his threat by that card's printed cost.

...these fell creatures would bite the throats of those that they threw down.
–The Return of the King

Peril. Archery 1.

When Revealed: Deal 1 damage to a questing character you control.

Shadow: After this attack, attacking enemy engages the next player then makes an attack.

When Revealed: Choose a questing character you control and remove it from the quest.

Shadow: Defending character cannot ready until the end of the round.

Peril.

When Revealed: Either search the encounter deck, discard pile, and victory display for a Nazgûl enemy and add it to the staging area, or attach Hell-hawk to a Nazgûl enemy in play. (Counts as a Mount attachment with the text: "Limit 1 per enemy. Attached enemy gets +2 +2 +2 and is immune to play card effects.")

Doomed 1.

When Revealed: Each player must choose: either raise your threat by 1 for each character you control, or discard the highest cost ally you control.

Shadow: Discard a non-objective attachment you control.

When Revealed: Each player assigns X damage among characters he controls, where X is the number of resources on The Black Gate.

Shadow: Shadow: Attacking enemy gets +1 for each resource on The Black Gate.

Peril.

When Revealed: The Mouth of Sauron makes an immediate attack against you. If this attack destroys a character, raise your threat by 4.

Shadow: Attacking enemy gets +1 (+3 instead if it is The Mouth of Sauron).

When Revealed: Each player deals 1 damage to a questing character he controls. Until the end of the phase, each damaged character gets -1 and cannot be healed.

Shadow: Choose a non-unique enemy in the staging area. Engage it and deal it a shadow card.

Ranged. Sentinel.

When Revealed: The first player must choose: either take control of Gwaihir, or spend 1 resource and discard Gwaihir to discard a non-unique enemy in the staging area.

Shadow: This attack deals no damage.

Players do not raise their threat at the end of the refresh phase.

Forced: At the end of the round, each player raises his threat by 1 for each non- character he controls.

...blacker and darker than the vast shades amid which it stood, the cruel pinnacles and iron crown of the topmost tower of Barad–d–r.
–Return of the King

Immune to player card effects. X is the tens digit of the first player's threat dial.

The players cannot travel here unless there is at least 20 progress on stage 3B.

Travel: Each player makes a Fortitude test. If a player fails this test, raise his threat by 9.

He raised his eyes with difficulty to the dark slopes of Mount Doom towering above him...
–The Return of the King

While Orc-hold is in the staging area, progress cannot be placed on other locations in the staging area.

Forced: After Orc-hold becomes the active location, shuffle the encounter discard pile into the encounter deck. Discard cards from the top until an Orc enemy is discarded. Put that enemy into play engaged with the first player.

(|)

Mordor Road gets +1 for each controlled by the player who controls the most allies.

Forced: After Mordor Road becomes the active location, each player discards the top card of the encounter deck. Add each enemy discarded this way to the staging area.

(|)

They climbed on to the causeway and trudged along, down the hard cruel road that led to the Dark Tower itself.
–The Return of the King

If a player has failed a Fortitude test this round, Plain of Gorgoroth gets +2

Travel: The first player makes a Fortitude test to travel here. If he fails this test, raise each player's threat by 4.

There smokes trailed on the ground and lurked in hollows, and fumes leaked from fissures in the earth.
–The Return of the King

While Brake of Thorns is in the staging area, add (|) to each Fortitude test.

Forced: After Brake of Thorns becomes the active location, each player assigns X damage among characters he controls, where X is the tens digit of his threat dial.

(|)

They had a struggle to get out of the thicket. The thorns and briars were as tough as wire and clinging as claws.
–The Return of the King

While Old Water-course is the active location, it gains:"Response: When Old Water-course is explored, reduce each player's threat by 5."

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

Clambering a few steps up he found a tiny stream of dark water that came out from the hill–side and filled a little bare pool...
–The Return of the King

Surge. Immune to non- player card effects.

Gollum engages the first player.

*Forced: After Gollum is discarded during a Fortitude test, put him into play engaged with the first player. Then, choose an encounter card discarded from this test and ignore its icons.

*

Cannot have non-Morgul attachments.

While Ringwraith of Sauron is in the staging area it gains:"Forced: After a player fails a Fortitude test, Ringwraith of Sauron engages that player and makes an immediate attack."

(|) (|)

...with a storm of wings they hurtled southwards to Mount Doom.
–The Return of the King