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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.
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.
The One Ring, also called the Ruling Ring and Isildur's Bane, is a central plot element in J. R. R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings (1954–55). It first appeared in the earlier story The Hobbit (1937) as a magic ring that grants the wearer invisibility.
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.
[T 3] Burns writes that Galadriel brings light, able to oppose Shelob's darkness effectively. [1] Verlyn Flieger notes that the Phial of Galadriel holds the light of the Star of Elbereth , which in turn, by a complicated route of one fragmentation after another, is a surviving splinter of the light from the Two Trees of Valinor, the original ...
The light of the Phial of Galadriel is effective, too, against Middle-earth's giant spider Shelob, [1] [2] daughter of the line of the evil Ungoliant. Shelob is both evil and ancient, "bloated and grown fat with endless brooding on her feasts, weaving webs of shadow; for all living things were her food, and her vomit darkness". [1]
Spoilers below. It has been nearly two years since the shocking reveal from The Rings of Power’s season 1 finale: Sauron was once hot.. Halbrand, who everyone was shipping with Galadriel, was ...
"The Scouring of the Shire" is the penultimate chapter of J. R. R. Tolkien's fantasy The Lord of the Rings.The Fellowship hobbits, Frodo, Sam, Merry, and Pippin, return home to the Shire to find that it is under the brutal control of ruffians and their leader "Sharkey", revealed to be the Wizard Saruman.