Forced: At the end of the round, discard the top card of each player's deck. Each player must reanimate each ally discarded by this effect.
Travel: Deal 1 shadow card to each Undead enemy in play to travel here.
He could see nothing but the dim flame of the torches; but if the company halted, there seemed and endless whisper of voices all about him...
–The Return of the King
While you are off-course (
, 
, or 
), Starlit Sea gains:
Travel: Raise each player's threat by 3.
Shadow: Attacking enemy gets +1 
(+2 instead if you are off-course).
Travel: Search the encounter deck and discard pile for a Corsair enemy and add it to the staging area. Shuffle the encounter deck.
Forced: When White Ship is placed underneath The Havens Burn, place 1 resource on each Raider enemy in play.
Travel: Each player must assign damage among characters he controls equal to the amount of damage on Elven Caravel.
Forced: When Elven Caravel is placed underneath The Havens Burn, deal 1 damage to each character in play.
Travel: Shift your heading off-course to travel here.
Shadow: If this attack deals damage to a Ship objective, shift your heading off-course.
The winds of wrath came driving him, and blindly in the foam he fled...
–The Fellowship of the Ring
Travel: Move 2 progress from the main quest to the Stormcaller's quest stage.
Response: After Hidden Cove becomes the active location, heal 4 damage from each Ship objective.
While Weather Deck is in the staging area, each other Deck location in play gains:
Travel: Each player must exhaust a character he controls to travel here.
Shadow: Exhaust a character you control.
Travel: Add 1 resource to each Raider card in play to travel here.
Shadow: Attacking enemy gets +2
If you are off-course (Cloudy, Rainy, Stormy), Coast of Anfalas gets +2 Travel: Exhaust a Ship objective to travel here.
Shadow: If you are off-course (Cloudy, Rainy, Stormy), attacking enemy gets +2
Travel: One player must reveal the top card of the Corsair deck and engage it to travel here.
Shadow: If this attack destroys a character, discard an ally controlled by the defending player.
X is the highest number of resources on a Raider enemy in play.
Travel: Search the encounter deck and discard pile for a Corsair enemy and add it to the staging area. Shuffle the encounter deck.
While Umbar Square is the active location, it gains:"Response: After an enemy is defeated, place 1 progress on the main quest, bypassing the active location."
Travel: Reveal the top card of the encounter deck to travel here.
The loss of Umbar was grievous to Gondor...
–The Return of the King
X is the number of engaged enemies.
Travel: Assign X damage among characters in play to travel here.
Often those on who suspicion fell had fled to Umbar and there joined the rebels...
–The Return of the King
While Haradrim Estate is in the staging area, progress cannot be placed here.
Travel: Search the encounter deck and discard pile for a Harad enemy and put it into play engaged with the first player. Then, place 1 progress on the main quest, bypassing the active location. Shuffle the encounter deck.
X is the stage number of the main quest.
Travel: Each player spends 1 resource to travel here.
Shadow: If the defending character is an objective-hero, ready it and cancel all damage from this attack.
Response: After the players travel to Village Hut, the first player discards the top card of his deck. If that card is an ally, he puts it into play under his control, exhausted.
Travel: Discard the top card of the encounter deck. If that card is an enemy, add it to the staging area.
While Jungle Trail is the active location, each location in the staging area gets -1
Travel: Reveal the top card of the encounter deck to travel here.
The path itself was narrow and wound in and out among the trunks.
–The Hobbit
While Mumak Trail is the active location, it gains:"Response: When Mumak Trail leaves play as an explored location, search the encounter deck and discard pile for a Wild Mumak and add it to the staging area. Shuffle the encounter deck."
Travel: Raise each player's threat by 1 to travel here.
Immune to player card effects.
The players cannot travel here unless there are at least 20 progress tokens on stage 4B.
Travel: Reveal 1 encounter card per player.
Stage 4B cannot be defeated while River Harnen is in play.
X is the number of characters controlled by the first player.
Travel: Reveal the top card of the encounter deck to travel here.
Travel: Shuffle the encounter discard pile into the encounter deck and discard cards from the top until a Creature enemy is discarded. Add the discarded enemy to the staging area.
...a nasty, dirty, wet hole, filled with the ends of worms and an oozy smell...
–The Hobbit
While The Serpent's Redoubt is in the staging area, it gains:"Forced: After a player plays an ally from his hand, either remove 1 progress from the main quest, or exhaust that ally."
Travel: The first player searches the encounter deck and discard pile for an enemy and puts it into play engaged with him. Shuffle the encounter deck.
While Roofless Tower is in the staging area, it gains:"Forced: When a player plays an event, either remove 1 progress from the main quest, or cancel the effects of that event."
Travel: Exhaust a hero to travel here.
While Southron Camp is in the staging area, it gains:"Forced: At the end of the round, remove all progress from each location in play."
Travel: Raise each player's threat by 1 to travel here.
While Gate of Iron is in the staging area, progress cannot be placed on locations in the staging area.
Travel: Discard the top card of the encounter deck. Then, the first player must discard a card from his hand with cost greater than the discarded card's or raise each player's threat by 3.
While Uruk Guardroom is in the staging area, increase the cost to play each ally by 1.
Travel: Shuffle the encounter discard pile into the encounter deck and discard cards until an Orc enemy is discarded. Add that enemy to the staging area.
While Mines of Cirith Gurat is in the staging area, it gains:"Forced: When a player card would reduce a player's threat by any amount, reduce that amount to 1."
Travel: Each player discards the top 3 cards of his deck and raises his threat by 1 for each ally he discards this way.
Travel: Shuffle the encounter discard pile into the encounter deck. Each player discards the top card of the encounter deck and assigns X damage among characters he controls, where X is that card's
Forced: After the players travel here, advance to the next stage A, if able.
Travel: Shuffle the encounter discard pile into the encounter deck. Each player discards the top card of the encounter deck. Add each enemy discarded this way to the staging area.
Forced: After the players travel here, advance to the next stage C, if able.
Travel: Shuffle the encounter discard pile into the encounter deck. Each player discards the top card of the encounter deck. Add each location discarded this way to the staging area.
Forced: After the players travel here, advance to the next stage A, if able.
Travel: Shuffle the encounter discard pile into the encounter deck. Each player discards the top card of the encounter deck and raises his threat by X, where X is that card's
Forced: After the players travel here, advance to the next stage C, if able.
Twilight Hall gets +2 for each resource on it.
Forced: After a Forest location is explored, place 1 resource here.
Travel: Raise each player's threat by 1 for each resource here. If there are no resources on Twilight Hall, the players cannot travel here.
While Accursed Forest is in the staging area, "when revealed" effects cannot be canceled.
Travel: Reveal the top card of the encounter deck.
There was a breath of air and a noise of wind, but it had a sad sound.
–The Hobbit
While Dark Black Woods is in the staging area, no more than 1 progress can be placed on each Forest location in the staging area each round.
Travel: Each player discards the top card of the encounter deck. Add each enemy discarded this way to the staging area.
While Iron Hills Mine is the active location, it gains:"Response: When Iron Hills Mine is explored, each player may return 1 card from his discard pile to his hand."
Travel: Each player discards the top 4 cards of his deck to travel here.
Cave Entrance gets +1 for each Dragon Sign in the victory display.
Travel: Raise each player's threat by 1.
That, of course, is the dangerous part about caves: you don't know how far they go back, sometimes, or where a passage behind may lead to, or what is waiting for you inside.
–The Hobbit
Response: After the players travel to Creature Den, search the Caves deck for a Dragon Sign and attach it to Creature Den as a guarded objective. Shuffle the Caves deck.
Travel: Shuffle the encounter discard pile into the encounter deck and discard cards from the top until an enemy is discarded. Add that enemy to the staging area.
X is the number of locations in the staging area.
Travel: Assign X damage among characters in play.
The roar of the great falls drew nearer.
–The Fellowship of the Ring
While Deep Ravine is in the staging area, no more than 1 progress can be placed on locations in the staging area each round.
Travel: The first player must either exhaust Urdug, or raise each player's threat by 2 to travel here.
While Town Gate is in the staging area, it gains:"Forced: At the end of the quest phase, place 1 resource here. Then, if there are 3 resources here, discard Town Gate and deal 4 damage to Hrogar's Hill."
Travel: Dagnir makes an immediate attack against the first player.
While Wooden Palisade is the active location, Dagnir gets -2
Travel: The first player readies a hero he controls.
"Within there rise the roofs of houses; and in the midst, set upon a green terrace, there stands aloft a great hall of Men."
–Legolas, The Two Towers
X is 1 more than the number of side quests in the victory display.
Travel: Each player assigns X damage among characters he controls.
Immune to player card effects.
While Gate of Gundabad is in the staging area, resources cannot be placed on The Heroes' Defense.
Travel: Search the encounter deck, discard pile, and victory display for a Goblin Troop and add it to the staging area. Shuffle the encounter deck.
While River Running is in the staging area, enemies cannot be optionally engaged.
Travel: The first player engages the highest engagement cost enemy in the staging area.
...below them were trees that looked like oaks and elms, and wide grass lands, and a river running through it all.
–The Hobbit
While Exposed Riverbank is in the staging area, it gains:"Forced: After a 'when revealed' effect is canceled, place 1 resource on Easterling Pursuit."
Travel: Place 1 resource on Easterling Pursuit.
When Revealed: Each copy of Rolling Plains gets +2 until the end of the phase.
Travel: Raise each player's threat by 2.
The falling stream vanished into a deep growth of cresses and water–plants, and they could hear it tinkling away in green tunnels, down long gentle slopes...
–The Two Towers
While Rocky Outcrop is in the staging area, characters cannot be readied by player card effects.
Travel: The first player exhausts a hero he controls.
While Hillside Manor is in the staging area, each player's threat cannot be reduced by more than 1 each round by player card effects.
Travel: Each player discards 1 random card from his hand.
The wine of Dorwinion brings deep and pleasant dreams.
–The Hobbit
City Forum gets +1 for each resource here.
While City Forum is in the staging area, it gains:"Forced: After a location is explored, place 1 resource here."
Travel: Each player raises his threat by 1 for each resource here.
Immune to player card effects.
Forced: When Seedy Travern is explored, reveal each facedown card under it.
Travel: Look at the top 5 cards of the encounter deck. Put one of those cards facedown under Seedy Tavern and shuffle the rest back into the encounter deck.