![]() There she sucked up all light that she could find, and spun it forth again in dark nets of strangling gloom, until no light more could come to her abode and she was famished. In a ravine (Ungoliant) lived, and took shape as a spider of monstrous form, weaving her black webs in a cleft of the mountains. ![]() ![]() There agelong (Shelob) had dwelt, an evil thing in spider-form, even such as once of old had lived in the Land of the Elves in the West that is now under the Sea, such as Beren fought in the Mountains of Terror in Doriath, and so came to Luthien upon the green sward amid the hemlocks in the moonlight long ago.īut none could rival her, Shelob the Great, last child of Ungoliant to trouble the unhappy world. We know that Shelob was last child of Ungoliant, and like her was noted to be an evil entity that took the shape of a spider. Little she knew of or cared for towers, or rings, or anything devised by mind or hand, who only desired death for all others, mind and body, and for herself a glut of life, alone, swollen till the mountains could no longer hold her up and the darkness could not contain her. ![]() Here is the exact quote from The Two Towers: Shelob's Lair:Īlready, years before, Gollum had beheld her, Smeagol who pried into all dark holes, and in past days he had bowed and worshipped her, and the darkness of her evil will walked through all the ways of his weariness beside him, cutting him off from light and from regret. ![]()
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