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Shelob is a fictional monster in the form of a giant spider from J. R. R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings. Her lair lies in Cirith Ungol ("the pass of the spider") leading into Mordor. The creature Gollum deliberately leads the Hobbit protagonist Frodo there in hopes of recovering the One Ring by letting Shelob attack Frodo.
In the fictional history of the world by J. R. R. Tolkien, Moria, also named Khazad-dûm, is an ancient subterranean complex in Middle-earth, comprising a vast labyrinthine network of tunnels, chambers, mines, and halls under the Misty Mountains, with doors on both the western and the eastern sides of the mountain range.
Mithril is a fictional metal found in J. R. R. Tolkien's Middle-earth writings. It is described as resembling silver , but being stronger and lighter than steel . It was used to make armour, such as the helmets of the citadel guard of Minas Tirith , and ithildin alloy, used to decorate gateways with writing visible only by starlight or moonlight.
J. R. R. Tolkien built a process of decline and fall in Middle-earth into both The Silmarillion and The Lord of the Rings.. The pattern is expressed in several ways, including the splintering of the light provided by the Creator, Eru Iluvatar, into progressively smaller parts; the fragmentation of languages and peoples, especially the Elves, who are split into many groups; the successive falls ...
The Sycamore Gap tree or Robin Hood tree is a 150-year-old sycamore tree next to Hadrian's Wall near Crag Lough in Northumberland, England.Standing in a dramatic dip in the landscape created by glacial meltwater, it was one of the country's most photographed trees and an emblem for the North East of England.
The economy of Middle-earth is J. R. R. Tolkien's treatment of economics in his fantasy world of Middle-earth.Scholars such as Steven Kelly have commented on the clash of economic patterns embodied in Tolkien's writings, giving as instances the broadly 19th century agrarian but capitalistic economy of the Shire, set against the older world of feudal Gondor.
“Its demise is enigmatic considering that it was one of the few Asian great apes to go extinct in the last 2.6 million years, whereas others, including orangutan, survived until the present.”
He thought Isildur's encounter with Shelob was "completely unnecessary but suitably creepy". Whitbrook was more critical of how quickly the Númenórean storyline was being told. [ 44 ] Matt Schimkowitz at The A.V. Club praised the episode as the best of the season so far, partially attributing this to the focus on Isildur who is "the closest ...