While Gap of Rohan is in the staging area, Dunland enemies get +1

Shadow: Attacking enemy gets +1 . If this attack destroys a character, remove 1 time counter from the current quest.

While Heart of Fangorn is in the staging area, each player cannot refresh more than 5 characters during the refresh phase.

Attacking enemy makes an additional attack after this one.

While Ancient Forest is in the staging area, each Forest location in the staging area gets +1 and +3 quest points. This ability does not stack with other copies of Ancient Forest.

Shadow: Defending player exhausts a character he controls.

While Tangled Woods is in the staging area, each Forest location in plays gains:

Travel: Exhaust a hero to travel here.

This ability does not stack with other copies of Tangled Woods.

The forest was dark and close. –The Two Towers

While Broken Lands is in the staging area, progress cannot be placed on locations in the staging area.

Shadow: Attacking enemy gets +1 for each location in the staging area.

While Hills of Dunland is in the staging area, it gains:

Forced: After a player draws any number of cards, discard the top card of the encounter deck. If the discarded card is a Dunland enemy, put it into play engaged with that player. This ability does not stack with other copies of Hills of Dunland.

Travel: Each player draws a card to travel here.

Doomed 2.

X is the number of players in the game.

While Grim Foothills is in the staging area, progress must be placed on Grim Foothills before it can be placed on the active location.

Progress cannot be placed on Streets of Tharbad while it is in the staging area.

While Streets of Tharbad is the active location, enemies get -20 engagement cost.

As soon as his back was turned, a dark figure climbed quickly in over the gate and melted into the shadows of the village street. –The Fellowship of the Ring

While Ruins of the Second Age is in the staging area, City locations get +1 .

While Ruins of the Second Age is the active location, deal engaged enemies 1 additional shadow card at the beginning of the combat phase.

...as far as Tharbad, where the old North Road crossed the river by a ruined town. –The Fellowship of the Ring

While Fen of Reeds is in the staging area, it gains:

Forced: After the players advance to a quest stage, each player must exhaust a character he controls.

Shadow: Attacking enemy gets +1 for each time counter on the quest.

While Finger of Glanduin is in the staging area, it gains:

Forced: At the end of each round, remove 1 progress from each location in play.

Shadow: If this attack destroys a character remove all progress from the current quest.

While Sinking Bog is in the staging area, each character gets -1 -1 and -1 for each Item attached to it. This ability does not stack with other copies of Sinking Bog.

Shadow: Defending character gets -1 for this attack for each attachment attached to it.

Cannot have attachments.

While Orc War Party is in the staging area, enemies in the staging area cannot take damage.

The players cannot win the game while Orc War Party is in play.

They kept no order, thrusting, jostling, and cursing; yet their speed was very great. –The Two Towers

While Borders of Bree-land is in the staging area it gains:

Forced: At the beginning of the quest phase, return 1 enemy engaged with a player to the staging area.

Shadow: Defending character gets -1 for each quest stage in play.

Doomed 1.

While Outlying Homestead is in the staging area, players cannot reduce their threat.

Travel: Reveal a card from the encounter deck.

They were far beyond the borders of the Bree–land, out in the pathless wilderness... –The Fellowship of the Ring

While Blood-thirsty Warg is in the staging area, it gains:

Forced: When it becomes Night, Blood-thirsty Warg engages the first player and makes an immediate attack.

The wold snarled and sprang towards them with a great leap.
–The Fellowship of the Ring

While Eriador Wastes is in the staging area, no more than 5 progress can be placed on the current quest each round.

Travel: The first player engages a Warg enemy in the staging area and deals it a shadow card.

"...the long leagues of Eriador still lie before us." –Aragorn, The Fellowship of the Ring

While Barren Moorland is in the staging area, it gains:

Forced: When an ally enters play, you must either exhaust it or deal 1 damage to it.

Travel: Deal 1 damage to each exhausted character.

While Forbidden Descent is in the staging area, the first 2 progress that would be placed on a quest each round must be placed on Forbidden Descent, instead.

Forced: If Forbidden Descent leaves play from the staging area, raise each player’s threat by 2.

While Decrepit Remains is in the staging area, each location and quest in the staging area gets +2 quest points.

Shadow: For each point of damage dealt by this attack, remove 1 progress from each quest in play.

While Dark Halls is in the staging area, each Reanimated Dead gets +1 and +1 .

Shadow: If there is a copy of the defending character in your discard pile, reanimate it and deal it 1 shadow card.

Surge.

Shadow: Attacking enemy gets +1 for each damage token on the active location.

While Rough Waters is in the staging area, cancel the first symbol found during each Sailing test.

Shadow: If you are off course (, , or ), attacking enemy gets +2 Attack.

Boarding 3. Cannot have attachments.

While Corsair Warship os om the staging area, it cannot be damaged and gains archery 4.

...ships of great draught with many oars, and with black sails bellying in the breeze.
–The Return of the King

Boarding 2. Cannot have attachments.

While Swift Raider is in the staging area, it gains:

Forced: After a player commits 4 or more characters to a Sailing test or to the quest, Swift Raider engages that player.

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.

Island Watcher cannot be optionally engaged.

While Island Watcher is in the staging area, it gains:"Forced: At the beginning of the encounter phase, if the active location has the Ruins trait, Island Watcher engages the player with the highest treat. Then, deal it 2 shadow cards."

Archery 2. Cannot have attachments.

While Siege Ship is in the staging area, it gains:"Forrced: at the end of the quest phase, if Siege Ship is not guarding an objective and there is an unguarded objective in the staging area, attach Siege Ship to that objective, guarding it."

While Watch Tower is in the staging area, it gains:"Forced: When a Raider enemy enters play, add 1 resource to it."

Shadow: If this attack destroys an ally, add resources to a Raider enemy in play equal to that character's printed resource cost.

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.

While Parched Wadi is in the staging area, each Creature enemy gets +1 and +1

Forced: After Parched Wadi becomes the active location, shuffle the encounter discard pile into the encounter deck and discard cards from the top until a Creature enemy is discarded. Add that enemy to the staging area.

While Southron Captain is in the staging area, each other Harad enemy gets +1

While Southron Captain is engaged with you, each other Harad enemy engaged with you gets +1

While Towering Dunes is in the staging area, progress cannot be placed on locations in the staging area not named Towering Dunes.

Forced: After Towering Dunes becomes the active location, reveal the top card of the encounter deck.

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.

Surge.

While Broken Courtyard is in the staging area, the main quest cannot have progress tokens beyond its printed quest points value.

Shadow: Either remove 2 progress from main quest, or return attacking enemy to staging area after this attack.

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.

Surge.

Dungeon Cell gets +X where X is the printed of the attached objective.

While Dungeon Cell is in the staging area, it gains:"Forced: After an ally is destroyed, attach it to Dungeon Cell if there is no objective attached to Dungeon Cell."

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.

While Foothills of Mordor is in the staging area, 'when revealed' effects cannot be canceled.

Forced: After Foothills of Mordor becomes the active location, raise each player's threat by 2.

...there lay dark thickets, and a tumbled land of rocky ghylls and crags, behind which the long grim slopes of the Ephel Dúath clambered up.
–The Return of the King

Surge. Cannot be optionally engaged.

While Stray Goblin is in the staging area, it gains:"Forced: After a player engages an enemy, Stray Goblin engages that player."

Shadow: Add Stray Goblin to staging area.

Lonely Lands gets +2 for each facedown card under it.

While Lonely Lands is in the staging area, it gains:"Forced: After an event is played during the quest phase, place it facedown under Lonely Lands."

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.

Deep.

While Dark Tunnel is in the staging area, progress cannot be placed on Dark locations in the staging area.

The tunnel seemed to have no end. All he knew was that it was going down pretty steadily...
–The Hobbit

While Mountain Pass is in the staging area, the 'when revealed' effects of Weather treachery cards cannot be canceled.

"We may well be seen by watchers on that narrow path, and waylaid by some evil; but the weather may prove a more deadly enemy than any."
–Gandalf, The Fellowship of the Ring

Deep.

Progress cannot be placed on Dwarven Door while it is in the staging area.

"Dwarf–doors are not made to be seen when shut."
–Gimli, The Fellowship of the Ring