[Anguirel]

Women's beauty is only skin-deep. If men knew what lay beneath, they would shun the sight of women forever.

There's a dollop of that in Ungoliant; a dash of Lilith perhaps; a bit of foul things gnawing at the roots of the earth too; to simplify it all into a mere Maiar spirit seems rather dull.

But whatever she is, she came from outside Arda and she's deeply scary. Balrogs be blasted; before they turned up, Morgoth himself was grovelling beneath her manifold legs.

But we're a little off-topic. Back to the Ring. Yawn.