Setup: Set each copy of Great Barrow, Standing Stones, and Hollow Circle aside, out of play. Shuffle the encounter deck.
After rescuing the hobbits from Old Man Willow, Tom Bombadil has invited Frodo and his friends to stay the night in his house. There they are greeted warmly by his wife, Goldberry, the River–daughter.
Skip the quest phase.
Forced: At the end of the round, place 1 progress on this stage.
"Let us shit out the night!" she said. "For you are still afraid, perhaps, of mist and tree–shadows and deep water, and untame things. Fear nothing! For tonight you are under the roof of Tom Bombadil."
–The Fellowship of the Ring
When Revealed: Add Hollow Circle to the staging area. Each player reveals 1 encounter card.
Forced: At the end of the refresh phase, raise each player's threat by 1.
The players cannot defeat this stage unless Hollow Circle is in the victory display.
When Revealed: The first player adds Standing Stones to the staging area. Each other player reveals 1 encounter card. Shuffle the encounter discard pile and each copy of Great Barrows into the encounter deck.
Progress cannot be placed here while Great Barrow is in play.
Forced: After a player is eliminated (at any stage), raise the threat of each player at this stage by 10.
The players cannot defeat this stage unless each player in the game is at this stage and Standing Stones is in the victory display. If the players defeat this stage, they win the game.
Forced: When a location is revealed at this stage, cancel its effects and discard it. Then, raise your threat by that card's
(including modifiers).
Forced: After this stage is defeated, advance to stage 3B at the beginning of the travel phase (combining staging areas with stage 3B) and place 1 progress on a Great Barrow at that stage.
Immune to player card effects.
Travel: Each player searches the encounter deck and discard pile for a Wight enemy and puts it into play engaged with him. Shuffle the encounter deck.
It was shapeless and yet significant: like a landmark, or a guarding finger, or more like a warning.
–The Fellowship of the Ring
Immune to player card effects.
Travel: The first player searches the encounter deck, discard pile and victory display a Great Barrow and adds it to the staging area. Shuffle the encounter deck.
He had passed between them almost before he was aware: and even as he did so darkness seemed to fall round him. –The Fellowship of the Ring
X is 1 plus the number of facedown cards under this location.
Forced: After Ancient Barrow enters play, each player places an ally he controls facedown under this location. When Ancient Barrow leaves play as an explored location, return each ally under this location to its owner's hand.
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 North Downs is in the staging area, characters use their 
instead of their when defending against Wight enemies.
Shadow: Attacking enemy gets +2 If this attack destroys a character, raise each player's threat by 2.
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1
6
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.
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1
5
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.
3
1
7
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.
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3
6
When Revealed: Choose a player. That player gains control of Tom Bombadil, ready and committed to the quest. At the end of the round, discard Tom Bombadil. Then shuffle the encounter discard pile into the encounter deck. This effect cannot be canceled.
"Tom Bom, Jolly Tom, Tom Bombadillo!" –Tom Bombadil, The Fellowship of the Ring
You are playing Campaign Mode.
Setup: While any player is at stage 4B, the first player cannot lose control of the first player token.
Even in the Shire the rumour of the Barrow–wights of the Barrow-downs beyond the Forest had been heard. But it was not a tale than any hobbit liked to listen to, even by a comfortable fireside far away. –The Fellowship of the Ring
Resolution: The players have earned the Ho! Tom Bombadil! boon card.
At last they set off. They led their ponies down the hill; and then mounting they trotted quickly along the valley. They looked back and saw the top of the old mound on the hill, and from it the sunlight on the gold went up like a yellow flame. Then they turned a shoulder of the Downs and it was hidden from view.
–The Fellowship of the Ring