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Originally Posted by Gil-Galad
Shelob starves to death due to the wounds inflicted on her by Samwise the Brave.
According to the Tolkien Beastiary by David Day, the Watcher was a creature created by Melkor but forgotten.
with Ungoliant and the spiders, i beleive that they were created at the forming of the world but were swayed by evil, like the Crebain were turned into evil use while the Ravens assisted the dwarves.
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The biggest demon from the ancient world mentioned is probably David Day. He's not erm...the most reliable of sources. Nice books though, I got the Bestiary twice because the pictures are so beautiful (contrary to what Alex Lewis of the TS thinks, after he gave the illustrations an unwarranted knocking about!). The best source in terms of reliability is the Robert Foster A-Z.
Remember Melkor couldn't create any new life, he could only corrupt what already existed. The scariest thing though is possibly this:
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Far, far below the deepest delvings of the Dwarves, the world is gnawed by nameless things.
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Nameless things can be whatever you want them to be, that's what's so
scary about 'em.
Check out
me horror thread for more nasties.
Talking about Ungoliant, after a while, she takes
nobody for her master:
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there in Avathar, secret and unknown, Un- goliant 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 Manwe, and that in the beginning she was one of those that he corrupted to his service. But she had disowned her Master, desiring to be mistress of her own lust, taking all things to herself to feed her emptiness; and she fled to the south, escaping the assaults of the Valar and the hunters of Orome, for their vigilance had ever been to the north, and the south was long unheeded. Thence she had crept towards the light of the Blessed Realm; for she hungered for light and hated it.
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