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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.
[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 ...
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.
The light of the Phial is a tiny part of the light of the vala Elbereth, who created the stars and blessed the Silmarils, and to whom Samwise appeals in the face of Shelob. [6] In the end, the Phial is used to defeat Shelob, a descendant of Ungoliant, the monstrous servant of Morgoth who had destroyed the light-giving Two Trees of Valinor. [7]
Jane Chance likens Shelob to the guardian of the gateway to Hell in John Milton's Paradise Lost. [8] George H. Thomson similarly compares Shelob to Milton's Sin and Death, noting that they "serve neither God nor Satan but look solely to their own interests", as Shelob does; she is "the Death and Chaos that would overcome all". [9]
Andy Blakeman reviewed Shelob's Lair and the Tower of Cirith Ungol for Imagine magazine, and stated that "As usual, there is all the detail one could wish for on land, climate, politics and power, and of course, Cirith Ungol." [2] William A. Barton reviewed The Tower of Cirith Ungol and Shelob's Lair in The Space Gamer No. 73. [1]
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 was featured in the film adaption of the last book of the Lord of the Rings series. [69] Although described as giant spiders, Tolkien gave them fictional attributes such as compound eyes , beaks and the spinning of black webs.