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Originally Posted by The Saucepan Man
As Bêthberry noted, it is not a given that Ungoliant was a Maia. Her nature and origins are, to my mind, amiguous.
Indeed, valiant though Samwise undoubtedly was, it would surely have been a tall order for him to defeat a half-Maia in single combat ...
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I have a nasty habit of making every powerful being whose origin is not clear a maia (fg. Tom Bombadil, Ungoliant). Otherwise they don't fit into my image of Arda...
The latter part is probably true, though it was actually an accidental suicide by Shelob... Poor Sam.