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The Land of Shadow


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Ambush the Men of Harad Ambush the Men of Harad
Type: Quest
Encounter Set: Journey to the Cross-roads
Encounter Info:
Quest Points: 20
“These cursed Southrons come now marching up the ancient roads to swell the hosts of the Dark Tower. Yea, up the very roads that craft of Gondor made.” —Mablung, The Two Towers
Setup: Add The Black Gate and The Cross-roads to the staging area. Shuffle the Harad encounter set and place it facedown under The Cross-roads. Each player, except for the first player, searches the encounter deck for a different non-unique location and adds it to the staging area. Shuffle the encounter deck.

“The road may pass, but they shall not!” —Mablung, The Two Towers
Forced: At the beginning of the quest phase, reveal the top facedown card from under The Cross-roads and add it to the staging area.
The players cannot defeat this stage while The Cross-roads is in play. When The Cross-roads is explored, the players win the game.



Set: The Land of Shadow Number: 68
Quantity: 1
Illustrator: Julepe
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Faramir Faramir
Type: Hero Sphere: Leadership
Starting Threat: 11
Willpower: 2 Attack: 2 Defense: 2 Hit Points: 5
Gondor. Noble. Ranger.
Ranged.
Response: After you engage an enemy, ready an ally you control. (Limit once per phase.)

“That will be the Captain: he can master both beasts and men.” —Beregond, The Return of the King
Set: The Land of Shadow Number: 2
Quantity: 1
Illustrator: Jason Cheeseman-Meyer
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Gollum Gollum
Type: Enemy
Encounter Set: Gollum
Threat Threshold: 30
Threat: 2 Attack: 2 Defense: 2 Hit Points: 5
Gollum.
Immune to non-[Fellowship] player card effects. Gollum engages the first player.
Forced: After Gollum engages the first player during the refresh phase, he makes an immediate attack.
Forced: When Gollum is defeated, flip him to Smeagol exhausted.


Set: The Land of Shadow Number: 75
Quantity: 1
Illustrator: Lukasz Jaskolski
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Staff of Lebethron Staff of Lebethron
Type: Attachment Sphere: Leadership
Cost: 1
Item.
Attach to a Gondor or Hobbit hero. Restricted.
Response: After attached hero exhausts to defend an attack from an enemy with engagement cost higher than your threat, exhaust Staff of Lebethron to discard a shadow card from that enemy.

“They are made of the fair tree lebethron, beloved of the woodwrights of Gondor...” —Faramir, The Two Towers
Set: The Land of Shadow Number: 8
Quantity: 3
Illustrator: Kara Williams
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Ambush Ambush
Type: Attachment Sphere: Lore
Cost: 2
Condition. Trap.
Play Ambush into the staging area unattached. If unattached, attach Ambush to the next eligible enemy that enters the staging area.
Combat Action: The engaged player discards Ambush to declare an attack against the attached enemy.

“But we have a new errand on this journey: we come to ambush the Men of Harad.” —Mablung, The Two Towers
Set: The Land of Shadow Number: 9
Quantity: 3
Illustrator: Cristina Vela
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Snowmane Snowmane
Type: Attachment Sphere: Spirit
Cost: 1
Mount.
Attach to a Rohan hero. Restricted.
If attached hero is Theoden, Snowmane loses the restricted keyword.
Response: After attached hero quests successfully, ready attached hero.

Suddenly the king cried to Snowmane and the horse sprang away. —The Return of the King
Set: The Land of Shadow Number: 10
Quantity: 3
Illustrator: Julepe
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Taste it again! Taste it again!
Type: Event Sphere: Leadership
Cost: 1
Response: After a hero you control defends an attack made by an enemy with engagement cost higher than your threat, ready that hero. Until the end of the phase, that hero gets +2 [Attack] while attacking that enemy.

“We’re going on; but we’ll settle with you fi rst. Come on, and taste it again!” —Sam Gamgee, The Two Towers
Set: The Land of Shadow Number: 11
Quantity: 3
Illustrator: Piya Wannachaiwong
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In the Shadows In the Shadows
Type: Event Sphere: Lore
Cost: 3
Lower the cost to play In the Shadows by 1 for each Hobbit or Ranger hero you control.
Combat Action: Each enemy engaged with you with engagement cost higher than your threat gets -1 [Attack] and -1 [Defense] until the end of the phase.

He could see them stealing up the slopes, singly or in long files, keeping always to the shade of grove or thicket... —The Two Towers
Set: The Land of Shadow Number: 12
Quantity: 3
Illustrator: Piya Wannachaiwong
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Speak Your Promise! Speak Your Promise!
Type: Event Sphere: Fellowship
Cost: 1
Action: Ready the Ring-bearer to choose an enemy engaged with you. If the Ring-bearer’s [Willpower] is greater than that enemy’s [Threat], lower its [Attack] and [Defense] by the difference until the end of the phase.

For a moment it appeared to Sam that his master had grown and Gollum had shrunk... —The Two Towers
Set: The Land of Shadow Number: 13
Quantity: 3
Illustrator: Cristina Vela
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Brace of Coneys Brace of Coneys
Type: Event Sphere: Boon
Cost: 0
Play only if you control the Ring-bearer.
Planning Action: Add Brace of Coneys to the victory display to (choose 2): heal up to 2 damage from a hero, add 2 resources to a hero’s pool, draw 2 cards, or reduce a player’s threat by 2.

“‘Sméagol always helps,’ he said. ‘He has brought rabbits, nice rabbits.’” —Gollum, The Two Towers
Set: The Land of Shadow Number: 14
Quantity: 4
Illustrator: Cristina Vela
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The One Ring The One Ring
Type: Objective
Encounter Set:
Artifact. Item. Ring.
Setup: The first player claims The One Ring and attaches it to the Ring-bearer.
Attached hero does not count against the hero limit. The first player gains control of attached hero.
If The One Ring leaves play, the players lose the game.


Set: The Land of Shadow Number: 63
Quantity: 1
Illustrator: Mike Nash
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Gamling Gamling
Type: Ally Sphere: Spirit
Cost: 3
Willpower: 1 Attack: 1 Defense: 2 Hit Points: 2
Rohan. Warrior.
Response: After a Rohan ally you control is discarded from play, exhaust Gamling to return that ally to your hand.

“...we have a thousand fi t to fi ght on foot,” said Gamling, an old man, the leader of those that watched the Dike. —The Two Towers
Set: The Land of Shadow Number: 7
Quantity: 3
Illustrator: Melanie Maier
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The Spider’s Pass The Spider’s Pass
Type: Quest
Encounter Set: Shelob’s Lair
Encounter Info:
Quest Points: 16
Presently they were under the shadow, and there in the midst of it they saw the opening of a cave. “This is the way in,” said Gollum softly. “This is the entrance to the tunnel.” He did not speak its name: Torech Ungol, Shelob’s Lair. —The Two Towers
When Revealed: Add Shelob to the staging area and shuffle all cards from The Great Spider encounter set and the encounter discard pile into the encounter deck.

They had not gone more than a few yards when from behind them came a sound, startling and horrible in the heavy padded silence: a gurgling,
bubbling noise, and a long venomous hiss. —The Two Towers
Shelob cannot leave the staging area and Smeagol cannot attack or defend.
Each player cannot play, or put into play, more than 1 ally each round.
No more than 4 progress can be placed on this stage each round.



Set: The Land of Shadow Number: 71
Quantity: 1
Illustrator: Dimitri Bielak
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The Stairs of Cirith Ungol The Stairs of Cirith Ungol
Type: Quest
Encounter Set: Shelob’s Lair
Encounter Info:
Quest Points: 0
Sméagol has led Frodo and Sam to the Morgul Vale, where he promises to show them a secret way over the Mountains of Shadow and into the land of Mordor, but Sam fears that Gollum may be leading them into a trap...
Setup: Set Cleft of Cirith Ungol, Shelob and The Great Spider encounter set aside, out of play. Put Smeagol into play under the first player’s control. Make Morgul Vale the active location. Add Smeagol’s Secret Way to the staging area. Shuffle the encounter deck.

Progress cannot be placed on Underground locations.
Response: After Smeagol’s Secret Way is explored, discard 3 random cards from each player’s hand to discard each Nazgul enemy in the staging area.
Forced: At the end of the quest phase, if Smeagol’s Secret Way is in the victory display, advance to stage 2A.


Set: The Land of Shadow Number: 70
Quantity: 1
Illustrator: Chris Rahn
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Journey to the Cross-roads Journey to the Cross-roads
Type: Campaign Side A
Encounter Set: Journey to the Cross-roads
You are playing campaign mode.
Setup: Each player must choose: either add 1 resource to each of his heroes’ pools, or shuffle 1 copy of Brace of Coneys into his deck. Remove each burden with the following burden set icons from the encounter deck and each player’s deck: Helm’s Deep, The Road to Isengard
So they passed into the northern marches of that land that Men once called Ithilien, a fair country of climbing woods and swift-falling streams. —The Two Towers



Set: The Land of Shadow Number: 69
Quantity: 1
Illustrator: Julepe
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Gollum’s Betrayal Gollum’s Betrayal
Type: Quest
Encounter Set: Shelob’s Lair
Encounter Info:
Quest Points: 8
“Got him!” hissed Gollum in his ear. “At last, my precious, we’ve got him, yes, the nassty hobbit. We takes this one. She’ll get the other. O yes, Shelob will get him, not Sméagol: he promised; he won’t hurt Master at all. But he’s got you, you nassty filthy little sneak!” He spat on Sam’s neck. —The Two Towers
When Revealed: Add Cleft of Cirith Ungol to the staging area. Flip Smeagol to Gollum and heal all damage from Shelob. Each player places 1 resource on Shelob.

If Gollum is defeated, add him to the victory display. (do not flip him to Smeagol.)
While Shelob has at least 1 resource on her, she gains: “
Forced: When Shelob is dealt any amount of damage, cancel that damage and discard 1 resource from Shelob instead.”
The players cannot defeat this stage unless both Shelob and Gollum are in the victory display. If the players defeat this stage, they win the game.


Set: The Land of Shadow Number: 72
Quantity: 1
Illustrator: Nicholas Gregory
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The Passage of the Marshes The Passage of the Marshes
Type: Campaign Side A
Encounter Set: The Passage of the Marshes
You are playing campaign mode.
Setup: Each player shuffles 1 copy of The Searching Eye into his deck. Remove each burden with the following burden set icons from the encounter deck and each player’s deck: Helm’s Deep, The Road to Isengard
“It’s that Gollum! Snakes and adders! And to think that I thought that we’d puzzle him with our bit of a climb! Look at him! Like a nasty crawling spider on a wall.” —Sam Gamgee, The Two Towers


campaign
Set: The Land of Shadow Number: 67
Quantity: 1
Illustrator: Cristina Vela
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Don’t Look at the Lights! Don’t Look at the Lights!
Type: Quest
Encounter Set: The Passage of the Marshes
Encounter Info:
Quest Points: 24
For a moment the water below him looked like some window, glazed with grimy glass, through which he was peering. Wrenching his hands out of the bog, he sprang back with a cry. “There are dead things, dead faces in the water,” he said with horror. —The Two Towers
When Revealed: Each player searches the encounter deck and discard pile for an Undead enemy and puts it into play engaged with him. Shuffle all locations in the victory display into the encounter deck.

Gollum laughed. “The Dead Marshes, yes, yes: that is their names,” he cackled. “You should not look in when the candles are lit.” —The Two Towers
While any player is engaged with an Undead enemy, progress cannot be placed on this stage.
The players cannot defeat this stage unless the first player controls Smeagol. If the players defeat this stage, they win the game.


Set: The Land of Shadow Number: 66
Quantity: 1
Illustrator: Cristina Vela
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Across the Dead Marshes Across the Dead Marshes
Type: Quest
Encounter Set: The Passage of the Marshes
Encounter Info:
Quest Points: 12
The Hobbits soon found that what had looked like one vast fen was really an endless network of pools, and soft mires, and winding half-strangled watercourses. Among these a cunning eye and foot could thread a wandering path. —The Two Towers
When Revealed: If the number of locations in the staging area is less than the number of players in the game, discard cards from the encounter deck until a location is discarded. Add the discarded location to the staging area.

Progress cannot be placed on locations in the staging area.
The players cannot advance unless the first player controls Smeagol and there are at least 4 locations in the victory display.
Forced: At the end of the staging step, if the number of locations in the staging area is less than the number of players in the game, reveal the top card of the encounter deck.


Set: The Land of Shadow Number: 65
Quantity: 1
Illustrator: Yoann Boissonnet
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The Taming of Smeagol The Taming of Smeagol
Type: Quest
Encounter Set: The Passage of the Marshes
Encounter Info:
Quest Points: 6
Frodo and Sam left the Fellowship above the falls of Rauros and crossed the great river to climb the Emyn Muil upon the Eastern shore. After days of wandering through that maze of rocky crags, they have finally reached the edge of the Dead Marshes only to discover that Gollum is following them.
Setup: Put Gollum into play engaged with the fi rst player. Each player searches the encounter deck for 1 location, reveals it, and adds it to the staging area. Shuffle the encounter deck.

Things would have gone ill with Sam, if he had been alone. But Frodo sprang up, and drew Sting from its sheath. —The Two Towers
The players cannot advance unless the first player controls Smeagol.
Forced: After a player declares any number of attackers against Gollum, discard the top card of the encounter deck. Gollum gets +X [Defense] for this attack, where X is the discarded card’s [Threat].



Set: The Land of Shadow Number: 64
Quantity: 1
Illustrator: Cristina Vela
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Rage and Hunger Rage and Hunger
Type: Treachery
Encounter Set: The Great Spider
When Revealed: Shelob gets +2 [Attack] until the end of the phase. Then, she makes an immediate attack against each player in turn order.
Shadow: If attacking enemy is Shelob, she makes an additional attack against you after this one.

Set: The Land of Shadow Number: 62
Quantity: 3
Illustrator: Álvaro Calvo Escudero
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Lurking Malice Lurking Malice
Type: Treachery
Encounter Set: The Great Spider
Peril. Surge.
When Revealed: Either place 1 resources on Shelob, or she makes an immediate attack against you.
Shadow: If attacking enemy is Shelob, place 1 resource on her. Then, she gets +1 [Attack] for each resource on her.

Set: The Land of Shadow Number: 61
Quantity: 3
Illustrator: Michael Wolmarans
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Shelob’s Poison Shelob’s Poison
Type: Treachery
Encounter Set: The Great Spider
Poison.
When Revealed: Attach to a hero you control and exhaust that hero. (Counts as a Condition attachment with the text: “Limit 1 per hero. Treat attached hero’s text box as blank, except for Traits. Attached hero cannot ready.”)
Shadow: If attacking enemy is Shelob, resolve the ‘When Revealed’ effect on Shelob’s Poison.

Set: The Land of Shadow Number: 60
Quantity: 2
Illustrator: Dimitri Bielak
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Blocked Tunnel Blocked Tunnel
Type: Location
Encounter Set: The Great Spider
Threat: 3 Quest Points: 9
Underground.
When Revealed: Make Blocked Tunnel the active location, returning any previous active location to the staging area.
Action: Exhaust a character with a Weapon attachment to place 3 progress on Blocked Tunnel. (Any player may trigger this effect.)

Across the width and height of the tunnel a vast web was spun, orderly as the web of some huge spider... —The Two Towers
Set: The Land of Shadow Number: 59
Quantity: 2
Illustrator: Julepe
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Haradrim Archer Haradrim Archer
Type: Enemy
Encounter Set: Harad
Threat Threshold: 42
Threat: 0 Attack: 3 Defense: 1 Hit Points: 5
Harad.
Archery X. X is the number of players in the game.
Forced: After Haradrim Archer engages you, assign X damage among characters you control.
Shadow: Deal 1 damage to the defending character.

Set: The Land of Shadow Number: 58
Quantity: 3
Illustrator: Melanie Maier
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Haradrim Soldier Haradrim Soldier
Type: Enemy
Encounter Set: Harad
Threat Threshold: 40
Threat: 2 Attack: 4 Defense: 3 Hit Points: 4
Harad.
Forced: After Haradrim Soldier engages you, it makes an immediate attack.
Shadow: Attacking enemy makes an additional attack against you after this one.

Set: The Land of Shadow Number: 57
Quantity: 3
Illustrator: Jon Bosco
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Oliphaunt Oliphaunt
Type: Enemy
Encounter Set: Harad
Threat Threshold: 44
Threat: 3 Attack: 6 Defense: 2 Hit Points: 9
Harad. Creature.
Cannot have attachments or take more than 3 damage each round.
Forced: After Oliphaunt engages you, exhaust each ally you control.
Shadow: Attacking enemy gets +3 [Attack].

Set: The Land of Shadow Number: 56
Quantity: 3
Illustrator: Lukasz Jaskolski
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We Hates Them We Hates Them
Type: Treachery
Encounter Set: Gollum
Gollum.
Surge.
When Revealed: Either flip Smeagol to Gollum, or Gollum makes an immediate attack. The first player may spend 1 [Fellowship] resource and exhaust The One Ring to cancel this effect.

Shadow: Attacking enemy gets +1 [Attack] (+3 [Attack] instead if the attacking enemy is Gollum).

Set: The Land of Shadow Number: 55
Quantity: 2
Illustrator: Álvaro Calvo Escudero
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Call of the Ring Call of the Ring
Type: Treachery
Encounter Set: Nazgul
When Revealed: The first player must choose: either search the encounter deck, discard pile, and victory display for a Nazgul enemy and add it to the staging area, or exhaust The One Ring and reveal the top card of the encounter deck.
Shadow: Attacking enemy makes an additional attack against you after this one.

Set: The Land of Shadow Number: 54
Quantity: 2
Illustrator: Melanie Maier
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Morgul Wraith Morgul Wraith
Type: Enemy
Encounter Set: Nazgul
Threat Threshold: 45
Threat: 4 Attack: 5 Defense: 4 Hit Points: 9
Nazgul.
Cannot have non-Morgul attachments.
While The One Ring is exhausted, Morgul Wraith gets -30 engagement cost and gains: “Immune to player card effects.”


“They see everything, everything. Nothing can hide from them.” —Gollum, The Two Towers
Set: The Land of Shadow Number: 53
Quantity: 2
Illustrator: Lukasz Jaskolski
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