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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: Monstrous spider and last notable spawn of Ungoliant. Smaug: A dragon and primary antagonist of The Hobbit. Slain by Bard the Bowman. Sméagol: was a stoor (one of the early hobbit types) that later on became Gollum.
Countless "days" pass, until Melkor reappears. He enlists the help of the giant spider Ungoliant to destroy the Two Trees. Concealed in a cloud of darkness, Melkor strikes each Tree and the insatiable Ungoliant devours whatever life and light remains in it. [T 3]
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Valinor lies in Aman ("Unmarred" [1]), a continent on the west of Belegaer, the ocean to the west of Middle-earth. [2] Ekkaia , the encircling sea, surrounds both Aman and Middle-earth. Tolkien wrote that the name "Aman" was "chiefly used as the name of the land in which the Valar dwelt".
Maglor casts a Silmaril into the Sea by Ted Nasmith, 1997. The painting was used on the front cover of HarperCollins's illustrated edition of The Silmarillion in 1999. [1]J. R. R. Tolkien describes the history of the Silmarils in The Silmarillion, published after but in fiction long preceding the events of The Lord of the Rings.
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.
Melian is somewhat Homeric in opposing Ungoliant, the monstrous spider of darkness in The Silmarillion, just as Galadriel opposes Ungoliant's spawn Shelob in The Lord of the Rings. [12] Mac Fenwick noted that while Melian is no longer present in Middle-earth by the Third Age, Galadriel continues her legacy, just as Sauron and Shelob continue ...