LOTR: What Happened To Shelob And The Other Spiders After The War Of The Ring?
Arguably one of the most nerve-wracking, teeth-clenching scenes in the entire Lord of the Rings trilogy is when we see Samwise the Brave fight Shelob, the spider demon who lurks in the cleft of Cirith Ungol, at the entrance to Mordor. The giant spider is a cruel and hideous creature, who likes to sting her victims and drink them dry in a slow, agonizing death.
Luckily for Frodo, she never gets the chance with him, because his most loyal and true companion battles to protect him, even though he fears he may already be too late. Shelob is an unusual creature, because despite her cruel and evil nature, she seems to have no heed of the alluring voice of the ring. Many of the evil creatures in the world go straight for Frodo, like the Watcher in the Water outside the Mines of Moria, or the cave troll he gets stabbed by in the underground tunnels, as if they can sense that he is the one who holds some sort of evil enticing object, even if they don't know exactly what that object is. However, Shelob doesn’t appear to have any sense of the ring being in her proximity, she is too concerned with her own appetite, and seems to live only for the joy of sucking blood from her victims. She wants only for herself ‘a glut of life, alone, swollen till the mountains could no longer hold her up and the darkness could no longer contain her.’
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She has been around for thousands of years of Middle Earth. She is thought to be as old as Treebeard and Bregalad, the ents, though not quite as old as Tom Bombadil, who exists in the world almost before time itself. Shelob came from before the time of Melkor, the first dark lord, long before the reign of Sauron, and was the
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