[The Saucepan Man]

I do know that "Sting's" runes suposedly say something like, "Sting is my name; I am the Spider's bane."

I remember reading that these were the Runes devised by the Elvish language expert retained by the makers of the films. But is there any evidence in the books that this was the inscription? After all, it was a blade that shone blue in the presence of Orcs suggesting that they were its primary intended victims. Now, Ungoliant left some of her brood along the Ered Gorogoroth didn't she, so there would have been spiders in the vicinity of Gondolin. But I doubt that they were any great threat to the hidden city ...