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The listed objects currently include most objects in the asteroid belt and moons of the giant planets in this size range, but many newly discovered objects in the outer Solar System are missing, such as those included in the following reference. [58] Asteroid spectral types are mostly Tholen, but some might be SMASS.
In the Years of the Trees, Arda was lit by the Two Trees of Valinor. Melkor damaged the trees, and Ungoliant drained them of their sap [T 2]. Tolkien's original writings say that Ungoliant was a primeval spirit of night, named Móru, [T 3] who aided Melkor in his attack upon the Two Trees of Valinor, draining them of their sap after Melkor had injured them.
Shelob is described in The Two Towers as an "evil thing in spider-form...[the] last child of Ungoliant to trouble the unhappy world", [T 1] living high in the Ephel Dúath mountains on the borders of Mordor. Although she resided in Mordor and was unrepentantly evil, she was independent of Sauron and his influence.
A size comparison of the planets in the Kepler-37 system and objects in the Solar System. Below is a list of the smallest exoplanets so far discovered, ...
ending when Melkor strikes the Two Trees, and the giant spider Ungoliant kills them: First Age (Years of the Sun) Last flower and fruit of the Two Trees become the Moon and the Sun. There is war over the Silmarils. One Silmaril is buried in the Earth, one is lost in the Sea, one sails in the Sky as Eärendil's Star. [a] Third Age
An overview of ranges of mass. To help compare different orders of magnitude, the following lists describe various mass levels between 10 −67 kg and 10 52 kg. The least massive thing listed here is a graviton, and the most massive thing is the observable universe.
Ochyrocera ungoliant is a species of spiders of the family Ochyroceratidae. It is endemic to Brazil . It was named after Ungoliant , an evil spider spirit created by J.R.R. Tolkien , described in the book The Silmarillion .
In Tolkien's constructed languages, Thingol is Sindarin for "grey cloak", "greymantle", while the Quenya form of his name, Singollo, has the same meaning. [T 10] The medievalist and Tolkien scholar Verlyn Flieger writes that while the name Elwë ("the star") indicates light, this is dimmed by the character's second name, the light being "cloaked or mantled over". [4]