Immune to player card effects.

X is 1 more than the number of Castle side quests in the victory display.

Forced: After Thane Ulchor attacks, reveal the top card of the encounter deck.

Forced: After Soldier of Nurn attacks, place 1 card from your hand facedown under a Castle side quest.

Shadow: Attacking enemy gets +1 If this attack destroys a character, place 1 card from your hand facedown under a Castle side quest.

Forced: After Grishn kh enters play, the first player attached 1 of the Captives to him. If Grishn kh is defeated, place the attached Captive faceup underneath To Isengard!

Forced: At the end of the quest phase, deal 1 damage to the attached Captive.

Forced: At the end of the planning phase, place each Harad enemy in the staging area facedown underneath The Black Gate.

If there are at least X facedown cards underneath The Black Gate, the players lose the game. X is 3 more than the number of players.

Peril.

When Revealed: Either place the lowest Harad enemy engaged with you facedown under The Black Gate or reveal the top card from under The Cross-roads and put it into play engaged with you.

"Always more people coming to Mordor. One day all the peoples will be inside." -Gollum, The Two Towers

Peril.

When Revealed: Put the topmost Orc enemy in the discard pile into play engaged with you.

Shadow: If this attack destroys a character, return attacking enemy to the staging area.

Peril. Archery 1.

When Revealed: Either deal 2 damage to a hero you control, or deal 2 damage to Minas Tirith.

Shadow: Attacking enemy gets +1 (+2 instead if it has the Mordor trait).

Surge.

While Minas Tirith is in play, undefended damage dealt by Mordor Orc must be dealt to Minas Tirith.

Shadow: If Minas Tirith is in play, engage Mordor Orc and deal it a shadow card.

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. 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

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

Immune to player card effects.

X is twice the stage number of the main quest.

Forced: After the players travel here, flip The Two Watchers to its enemy side and move it to the staging area.

They were like great figures seated upon thrones. Each had three joined bodies, and three heads facing outward, and inward, and across the gateway.
–The Return of the King

Immune to player card effects. Cannot be optionally engaged.

Forced: When The Two Watchers deals any amount of damage, cancel that damage and raise the defending player's threat by X instead. X is the amount of damage just canceled.

Add Eye to each Fortitude test.

Forced: At the end of the round, flip The Eye of Sauron, then move it and each Nazgûl enemy in the staging area to The Black Gate Opens staging area. The first player may raise each player's threat by 3 to cancel this effect.

Each enemy in the staging area gets +1 and -10 engagement cost.

Forced: At the end of the round, flip The Eye of Sauron, the move it and each Nazgûl enemy in the staging area to the Mount Doom staging area. The first player may raise each player's threat by 3 to cancel this effect.

Forced: At the beginning of the refresh phase, if Hunting Warg entered play this round, search the encounter deck and discard pile for 1 copy of Hunters from Mordor and add it to the staging area, if able. Shuffle the encounter deck.

"...where the warg howls, there also the orc prowls."
–Aragorn, The Fellowship of the Ring

Orc Interceptor gets +1 and +1 for each resource token on it.

Forced: After a location leaves play as an explored location, place a resource token on Orc Interceptor.

When Ambushing Orcs is dealt a shadow card that targets the player guarding Gollum that shadow card also targets each other player

"It was that very night of summer, yet moonless and starless, that Orcs came on us at unawares." –Legolas, The Fellowship of the Ring

Overseer Maurûl gets +X +X and +X where X is the highest number of resources on a Goblin enemy in play.

The Players cannot win the game unless Overseer Maurûl is in the victory display.

When Revealed: Add 1 resource to each Goblin enemy in play.

Forced: When a Goblin enemy with at least 1 resource on it is dealt any amount of damage, remove 1 resource from that enemy and cancel all damage just dealt to it.

Forced: While Durin's Bane has no damage, Servant of Flame gets +2 and +2

Shadow: Search the encounter deck for a treachery card with the Shadow or Flame trait and reveal it, if able. Shuffle the encounter deck.

Each enemy gets -20 engagement cost.

Shadow: If this attack destroys a character, attacking enemy cannot take damage this round.

"And some are large and evil: Black Uruks of Mordor." –Gandalf, The Fellowship of the Ring

Forced: After Invading Orc attacks and destroys a character, that character's controller returns a location he controls to the staging area.

Shadow: If this attack destroys a character, return a location you control to the staging area.

X is the total number of hidden cards in the game.

Forced: When Black Númenorean engages you, turn all hidden cards in your play area faceup.

Forced: At the end of the round, each player must raise his threat by 1 for each hidden card in his play area.

Archery 3.

Forced: After Uruk Marksman is turned faceup as a hidden card, deal 3 damage to a character controlled by the engaged player and return Uruk Marksman to the staging area.

Forced: At the end of the round, if Orc Captor is in the staging area, place 1 progress token on To the Tower.

Shadow: Attacking enemy gets +3 until the end of the combat phase.

X is the number of progress tokens on To the Tower.

Shadow: Attacking enemy gets +1 If this attack destroys a character, place 1 progress on To the Tower.

Bellach cannot take damage.

Scour: Heal all damage from Bellach's Bodyguard.

Shadow: Attacking enemy cannot take damage until the end of the phase.

Surge.

When Revealed: Attach to the current quest. (Counts as a Condition attachment with the text:"Forced: After a player fails a Hide test, he discards a random card from his hand.")