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Off-hand all I can say is that Shelob was a descendent of the spider Ungoliant that sucked the life from the Trees of Valinor. Sauron used her to guard the pass that Sam and Frodo used to get into Mordor.
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This is right, but Sauron didn't used her as stated by Orofacion of the Vanyar.
From the Letters of JRRT: 144
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The giant spiders were themselves only the offspring of Ungoliante the primeval devourer of light, that in spider-form assisted the Dark Power, but ultimately quarrelled with him. There is thus no alliance between Shelob and Sauron, the Dark Power's deputy; only a common hatred.
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Since Ungoliant was a Maiar corrupt, and the spiders here spawn, this means they are children of maiar.
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I have find no evidence that Ungoliant is a maiar.
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There, beneath the sheer walls of the mountains and the cold dark sea, the shadows were deepest and thickest in the world; and there in Avathar, secret and unknown, Ungoliant had made her abode. The Eldar knew not whence she came; but some have said that in ages long before she descended from the darkness that lies about Arda, when Melkor first looked down in envy upon the Kingdom of Manwë, and that in the beginning she was one of those that he corrupted to his service.
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Wouldn't the Eldar know if she were a Maia?