Demons from the Ancient World

[Saurreg]

Originally Posted by Bêthberry

Ungoliant was not created by Melkor: "The Eldar knew not whence she came." Shelob is the last of her children, I believe and as I recall it isn't known for sure that Shelob dies in LotR. Does this place her higher than the Balrog, who was destroyed?

No one really knows where Ungoliant came from, though the Silmarillion hinted that she might have entered the world during the influx of the Ainur.

An anomaly like Tom Bombadil?