[Bêthberry]

Mention of Goldberry once again brings up the question of her mother, although as Boro88 points out, the orginal sequence of Bombadil verse was not part of LotR. Still, we have no birth date for either Tom or Goldberry. Usually one assumes the woman is younger than the man, but this is not always the case. Yet the River Woman must be older than her daughter.

Speaking of spiders, Ungoliant clearly is ancient, older even than the maiar, it might appear, from her early descriptions in The Silm, yet she is outside Eru's creation, from the Void, and so I suppose does not qualify for this thread. Still, it is interesting to speculate what else might be out there in the Void or what the relationship is between The Void and Eä.