![]() ![]() He hopes to get the Ring back after Shelob eats the Hobbits. Throughout this time, Gollum himself is planning his own double treachery. However, none of them ever grow large enough to rival Shelob, who is referred to at the time of The Lord of the Rings as "Shelob the Great, last child of Ungoliant to trouble the unhappy world." Talk about a title. These spread out across the mountains of Mordor and - you guessed it - eventually reach Mirkwood. Snuggled into her new lair, she serves "none but herself." From this new base of operations, the demonic terror begins to have children. Regardless of the cause, Shelob resettles in her new mountain home before Sauron ever shows up on the scene. It's guessed that this could be the famous War of Wrath that ended the First Age and sunk the entire region of her birth into the ocean. At an unknown point in time, Shelob fled from "ruin," although the specific disaster isn't described. He explains that "there agelong she had dwelt, an evil thing in spider-form." He proceeds to add that she is one of many creatures like her that lived during the First Age of Middle-earth. That connection is buttoned up in The Two Towers when Tolkien pauses the narrative to explain how this random, horrifying spidery creature guarding the pass of Cirith Ungol came into being. ![]()
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