shelob

A "what if" scenario has been on my mind today and is as follows -Gollum's deceitful yet brilliant plan to use Shelob to ambush and kill Frodo and Sam works. He regains the One Ring and successfully hides for years, maybe decades or more, somewhere in Middle Earth with his precious. -The...

This is basically an exercise to try and assign 'Dungeons & Dragons' alignments to evil characters in the legendarium. Morgoth is probably clearly chaotic evil, though may also exhibit lawful evil tendencies (for example he commands armies), while Sauron may be described as Lawful evil. Their...

It's clear that those two somehow survived it, but could there be others, like perhaps the Watcher in the Water or the Nameless creatures way under Moria?

If Shelob is a spawn of Ungoliant, a being which consumed raw practically the entire world's supply of magical light (whatever that is), why is Shelob's reaction to such light not comparable to Ungoliant's reaction to the Two Trees? That is, she should find it a tasty appetizer for her main...

Though they don't purely seem to be this (two of them seem to have a certain power level as well that is on a par with Maia, if not higher) but I think Tom Bombadil is an embodiment of carefreeness and Ungoliant and her daughter Shelob are embodiments of gluttony. I realize that Ungoliant had...

So. Shelob. That one ugly mother of a spider. I don't know if anyone picked up on this, but I found out that she not only birthed multiple spiders, but she MATED with THOSE spiders!!!!!!! :eek::eek::eek: Then KILLED them!! She makes the Black Widow look like an angry housewife! What does...

Upon reading the last couple chapters of the Two Towers again, I’ve thought of something interesting. Is it possible that Shelob can, and does, cast an Unlight in her lair, even as Ungoliant did? Listen to this description of the atmosphere inside her cave: I added emphasis to the words “black...

Hello I'd like to ask two questions if I may: how old was Aragorn when he got married, and did Shelob perish at the end? I have the impression, right or wrong, that Shelob is independent of Sauron and so when his plans are thwarted is does not matter one way or the other to her. Since Tolkien...

At the end of the Two Towers does Shelob crawl away and die or survive to come back and reak havoc later?I hope she dies I might be 5ft 10in with a 50in chest but spiders petrify me. One that size I would have definetly become a dwarf and tunneled under rather than entering her lair.

Does anyone else think this is possible? It makes sense, I mean where else could a huge spider come from?

Sideshow Weta released their shelob statue today. Is it just me, or does this statue have an (from what I can see) an eye and two eyebrows on it's back?

Anti-geek Shaun (my long-suffering boyfriend) has a question for all you Tolkienites! Why does Shelob have a sting? Don't spiders bite their victims and thereby paralyse them? Here's a snippet from the Encarta website: So did Tolkien get his biology wrong?

This has always puzzled me, and became very apparent to me when I saw the movie today. Was Ungoliant's incredible ability to consume light itself an intrisic quality of an Umaiar (likely to be a Maia herself)? What these foul creatures are I do not know, perhaps some form of kelvar that we...

Always wondered if Shelob should not be played by an actor in customs :D Jackson would have been laudded as greatness, himself.....i bet the fight scene will be crap like the gandalf vs balrog on the mountain top....very fake, he hyper extended :(

I am currently reading the Lord of the Rings INTENTLY for the first time. I read it a few years ago, but was unable to capture the true feelings and emotions of it because someone told me the climax of the story before I had finished. I just finished reading The Stairs of Cirith Ungol...

What is she really? A big spider, yes. But how did she get there? Is she related to the spiders in Rhovanion? At first I though she was Ungoliant, but after reading another page in the Silmarillion I didn't think so anymore. So where can you read more about her?

Many of you read theonering.net, for those of you that don't..... I saw this picture of a Shelob toy that is to be released. Shelob toy I can't vouch for the validity...and the colors are a little different, but it is something to mull over until the movie comes out.

So, what WAS Shelob anyhow? What race did Shelob belong to? What was Ungoliant anyhow? Maia? Valar? Bombadil-ish? - Mike

Hear it from her own mouth! http://bbspot.com/News/2003/06/shelob.html The world just isn't fair to giant spyders.

I'm posting this because i'm looking for any advance pics on the creature Shelob. I've seen what spider it will be based after but i'm just wondering if anyone has a cgi version of the Shelob that will be in the final film. I'm looking because frankly, I'm scared STIFF of spiders!!! even when...