You use a sword to kill a spider. This is the whole story. I was practicing that move that Eowyn does with her sword in my room, when suddenly, in the next room, my younger brother (who is 8) started screaming, "SPIDER!!!! SPIDER!!!!" Naturally, I rushed over to check, and sure enough, this HUGE spider was crawling down the wall. Compared to most house spiders, this one was like Shelob! It was a tarantula as big as my hand! So utterly scary! Anyway, I took one look at my sword (in my hand) and another at the spider, decided to take my chances, and swung at the dratted thing with my sword. Sure enough, I caught it right across the middle, squashed it, and put a nice gash in the wall. Now, there's a big smear of very questionable substances on the wall, with a big cut in the middle. I'm hoping that my parents don't notice it for a while, but if they do, I can use the excuse that, "Just because Frodo and Sam were inept at killing spiders doesn't mean I have to be! I just saved him (my little brother) from Shelob!"
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But Melkor also was there, and he came to the house of Fëanor, and there he slew Finwë King of the Noldor before his doors, and spilled the first blood in the Blessed Realm; for Finwë alone had not fled from the horror of the Dark.
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