2012年9月2日 · Shelob survives the initial encounter with Sam, and Tolkien indicates that she may have eventually fully healed herself. Sam deals some pretty serious damage to shelob, piercing her underside, blinding her eyes, and cutting her legs. Shelob flees inside to nurse her wounds, leaving a trail of blood.

2023年5月8日 · In support of DQdlM's answer, Shelob doesn't pierce Frodo's mithril chainmail at all. While in the book she stings him in his unprotected neck, it's clear that this doesn't happen in the movie ! We see Shelob stinging Frodo from the front (since he turns to face her just before getting stung) and we can clearly see his neck is unhurt, so that's ...

Here's a snippet from the LOTR Wiki page on Shelob: At one point, Gollum, after being set free from Mordor, stumbled into her lair; it is not known what he sought there. As he mainly prefers staying away from danger, and the cave being littered with bones from Shelob's meals evidently is dangerous, he must have had a clear purpose.

2019年2月17日 · For Tolkien, creatures like Shelob demonstrate the part that evil necessarily inhabits within the whole of the spectrum: without having hope of redemption the world cannot return to being whole. With this in mind, think of Shelob in light of Gollum's more major--but not dissimilar--part in LotR:

2016年12月14日 · Shelob. Though it sounds (I think) a suitable name for the Spider, in some foreign (Orkish) tongue, it is actually composed of She and lob (a dialectal E. word for ‘spider’). (Cf. The Hobbit, Chapter 8.) The Dutch version retains Shelob, but the Swed. has the rather feeble Honmonstret. Nomenclature of The Lord of the Rings

2017年8月8日 · Neither of which are able to take human form. Shelob therefore, canonically, cannot take human form. Another reason why this form of Shelob is just a bunch of mumbo-jumbo, Shelob is not a force for good, her only intention is to live in the darkness and eat. She has no intention of helping the good and captured Frodo purely for eating purposes.

2014年10月28日 · Chapter 9 of the Silmarillion ("Of the Flight of the Noldor") suggests that Ungoliant starved to death.With their whips of flame they smote asunder the webs of Ungoliant, and she quailed, and turned to flight, belching black vapours to cover her; and fleeing from the north she went down into Beleriand, and dwelt beneath Ered Gorgoroth, in that dark valley that was after called Nan Dungortheb ...

2014年9月16日 · But none could rival her, Shelob the Great, last child of Ungoliant to trouble the unhappy world. (TT, Shelob's Lair, p.332 (HM Collector's Ed. 1987).) The implication is that the reason Bilbo was more successful fighting the spiders of Mirkwood than Sam fighting only Shelob was because Shelob was a greater and more powerful creature.

2018年1月21日 · ANGLE ON: SHELOB HISSES and REARS above SAM, her STINGER dribbling with VENOM! SAM ducks inside the arch of her LEGS and STABS STING into one of her EYE CLUSTERS! CLOSE ON: SHELOB SCREAMS, her MANDIBLES thrashing wildly, GREEN OOZE trickling from her WOUNDED EYE. With HIND LEGS, SHELOB picks SAM off the ground and TOSSES him BACKWARDS! SAM ...

2016年11月18日 · As the LOTR wiki says: Cirith Ungol was a pass or cleft through the Ephel Dúath located near Minas Morgul. It was also the name of an orc-stronghold that stood watch in that pass, and nearby within the mountains was located Shelob's lair.