Indestructible.

Cannot be optionally engaged. The Balrog and shadow cards dealt to The Balrog are immune to player card effects.

While in the staging area, The Balrog is considered to be engaged with the first player and only the first player can declare attackers against The Balrog.

While Helm's Gate is the active location, if any player is not engaged with an enemy, the first player reveals an encounter card at the end of each staging step.

Forced: When Helm's Gate is explored, each enemy gets -20 engagement cost and +2 until the end of the round.

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

Spectral. Cannot have attachments.

While you are engaged with The Lord of the Dead, treat all printed text boxes on characters you control as if they were blank (except Traits.)

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 Deep Gulley is in the staging area, it gains :"Forced: After a player optionally engages an enemy, that player raises his threat by X, where X is the engaged enemy's

Each time they clambered out, the trees seemed deeper and darker... –The Fellowship of the Ring

Cannot have attachments.

Lurker of the Depths cannot be engaged or take more than 4 damage each round.

While Lurker of the Depths is in the staging area, it is considered to be engaged with each player.

While Stone Ring is in the staging area, each Wight enemy engaged with a player gets +1 and +1 and applies the first sentence of its game text to each player at this stage as if it were engaged with him.

Stone rings grinned out of the ground like broken teeth in the moonlight. –The Fellowship of the Ring

While Barrow-wight is engaged with a player, that player's threat cannot be reduced.

Forced: After Barrow-wight attacks and destroys a character, that character's controller raises his threat by 2.

While Cold-wight is engaged with a player, that player cannot draw cards from card effects.

Forced: After Cold-wight attacks and destroys a character, that character's controller discards a random card from his hand.

While Dark-wight is engaged with a player, that player's heroes cannot gain resources from card effects.

Forced: After Dark-wight attacks and destroys a character, that character's controller discards all resources from each hero he controls.

Immune to player card effects.

While Staddle Hiding Hole is in the victory display, each player not engaged with a Suspect cannot declare attackers against that Suspect.

Travel: Search the encounter deck and discard pile for a Greenway Footpad, reveal it, and add it to the staging area. Shuffle the encounter deck.

While engaged with a player with threat 35 or higher, Lawless Ruffian gets +2

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

While Mirkwood Patrol is in the staging area, enemies cannot be optionally engaged.

Shadow: Attacking enemy gets +1 (+2 instead if it was engaged this round).

While Southron Sailor is engaged with you, each Ship enemy engaged with you contributes its to the total in the staging area.

"There is a great fleet drawing near to the mouths of the Anduin, manned by the corsairs of Umbar in the South."
–Beregond, The Return of the King

While it is engaged with you, Spiders of Mirkwood gets +1 for each exhausted character you control.

Shadow: Choose and exhaust 1 character you control. If this attack is undefended, also deal that character 2 damage.

While Treetop Bird-eater is engaged with a player, characters controlled by that player cannot be healed.

Forced: At the beginning of the encounter phase, Treetop Bird-eater engages the player who controls Wilyador (regardless of threat).

While Ill-fated Guard is engaged with a player, that player cannot commit more than 1 character to each escape test.

Shadow: Discard all attachments from each character you control with 3 or more

Surge.

While you are engaged with Swarming Goblins, it gains:"Forced: When a quest card is bypassed, search the encounter discard pile for a copy of Goblin Spearman and put it into play engaged with you."

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

Surge.

While Vicious Tracker is engaged with a player, that player is considered to have +20 threat for purposes of engagement checks only.

While Sentinel of the Deep is engaged with a player, that player cannot draw cards from card effects.

Shadow: Defending player must choose and trigger 1 'Lost:' effect in play.

While Dockside Street is in the staging area, enemies in the staging area cannot be damaged or optionally engaged.

Travel: Exhaust the hero with Alcaron's Scroll attached to travel here.

Surge.

While the engaged player has 3 or more cards in hand, Savage Hillman cannot take damage.

While the engaged player has 5 or more cards in hand, Savage Hillman gets +2

Hinder. Cannot have attachments.

While Blocking Huorn is engaged with a player, it adds its to the staging area.

Shadow: Put Blocking Huorn into play engaged with you.

Whiles Plains of Dunland is in the staging area, each Dunland enemy gets -20 engagement cost and cannot be optionally engaged.

Travel: The first player engages the highest enemy in the staging area to travel here.

While Munuv D–v River is in the staging area, it gainst:"Forced: After a player draws any number of cards, he deals 1 shadow card to an enemy engaged with him."

Shadow: Raise your threat by 1 for each enemy engaged with you.

Capture 1.

While you are engaged with Prison Guard, it gainst: "Planning Action: Rescue a random card from underneath Prison Guard. Then, raise each player's threat by X, where X is that card's printed cost. (Limit once per round)."

While Giant Beetle is engaged with a player, it gains: "As an additional cost to travel to a safe location, Giant Beetle makes an immediate attack against the engaged player."

Damaged characters cannot be declared as attackers or defenders against Giant Beetle.

While you are engaged with Apostate of Angmar, you cannot attack Thaurdir.

Shadow: Discard the top card of the encounter deck. Attacking enemy gets +X where X is that card's printed threat.

While you are engaged with Silent Guardian it gains:"Forced: The first time you play an event card each round, instead of discarding that card after playing it, reanimate it."

While Raider of the Storm is engaged with you, each Ship enemy engaged with you gets +1 +1 +1 and contributes its to the total in the staging area.

While Submerged Crawlway is the active location, deal each engaged enemy 1 additional shadow card at the beginning of the combat phase.

Forced: If Submerged Crawlway is the active location at the end of the quest phase, each player must search the encounter deck and discard pile for an enemy and add it to the staging area. Then, you may flip Submerged Crawlway to its Grotto side.

Peril. Hide 2.

Cannot have non-Morgul attachments.

While Dark Horseman is engaged with you, characters you control get -1 during Hide tests.

“There's been a strange customer asking for Mr. Baggins of Bag End...”
–The Gaffer, The Fellowship of the Ring

Toughness 2.

While Lugdush is engaged with a player, each other enemy cannot take damage.

Shadow: If attacking enemy is unique, it cannot take damage until the end of the round.