I have always found interesting the topic of monsters and beasts in Middle-earth, as things like the dragons and spiders are never fully explained by Tolkien. It is my assumption that they are entities created at the beginning of the world, maybe always in their respective semblances, maybe only as spirits, who, like Morgoth, became enamoured of darkness and evil.
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...where the instrument of intelligence is added to brute power and evil will, mankind is powerless in its own defence.
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