: I somehow doubt the spider gods come directly from The
: Hobbit OR any other of the spiders of Tolkien fame; I
: would think that, if anything, it would be the spiders
: themselves that were inspired by the Tolkien's
: spiders, and if so, the Spider Queen from TFL would
: quite obviously be inspired by (oh, damn, can't quite
: remember her name... The one that Gollum lead Frodo
: and Sam to in the Return of the King, you know the
: one, she's also in Silmarillion). At any rate, even
: there it's obviously the case that the idea was played
: around with before the final version of spiders were
: placed in Myth, because the Myth spider's were quite a
: bit more vulnerable to "ensquishment" than
: the spiders of The Hobbit and others. ;)
Shelob. I think the one in the Simarillion was called Ungoliant.
: Doom
