Ungoliant, Shelob, & the Spiders of Middle-earth [Compilation]

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1. I have two theories about Ungoliant.

   1. She being the lost souls of the world before. Fueld by the hatred that they all died.

   2. She being the essence of the void itself. Wanting more Nothing and Unlit everywhere.

2. I love your videos

3. Nope.

4. I very long time must have passed before the sun was created for her to live in the mountains of terror and went south to disappear before the first age started.

5. Ok… gunna be brave…. Seriously HATE spiders!!! But… I’m curious…

6. You should do a video about what would have happened if Shelob had acquired the ring

7. Her is soul is a fairy angry after the giants trees cut off , she still defending de trees from races

8. Absolutely excellent. Thank you.

9. One thing that always confused me was that ungoliant took her strength from consuming light. Yet shelob, ungoliants spawn, was repelled by the light and loathed it.

10. SHE'S A BABE.

11. My childish brain just imagined the Balrogs coming to Morgoth's aid, but instead of having their cool flaming swords, they're all armed with comically oversized newspapers and slippers.

12. Is there another source that says the Balrogs "fly with winged speed"? In my edition of The Silmarillion, it simply says they arose… (which I interpret as they ascended from the deep vaults in the ruins of Angband.)

13. I love your content so much

14. Don’t forget, according to the very real lore of a video game they are very… very sexy

15. W vid 🙏

16. Ungoliant is a reflection of the disharmony created in music by Melkor, a Vala who originally desired to control light and was rejected by Varda, with his corrupting melodies during the performance of the Music of the Ainur. This is the reason for Ungoliant's insatiable hunger for light. This hunger is a parallel theme, both metaphorically and physically, to Melkor's desire to corrupt creation and impose his will. It makes sense to interpret Ungoliant as being born from Melkor's shadow in this context.

17. So much to know about the middle earth and you are doing great work. The fantasy imagination is way beyond the mind reach of today

18. I think most scary is that she as not actually a spider but intelligent enough to become a spider. As a spider you make many eggs thus creating armies of spiders. She could have been one of strongest if her children were grown up and almost as big as her. Minas tiritch vs 60.000 orcs or minas tirith vs 120.000 shelob size spiders.

19. What I love about Tolkiens description of Ungoliant, is that he not merely uses the word Darkness to describe her power, but Unlight. It doesn't merely clash with light it is undoing the light, it's the opposite of light. That makes it even more terrifying

20. I like the fan theory that she had gone to the edge of night, seeking to consume the very stars, and gone into the darkness, becoming one with it, and there met melkor and had her revenge apon him, when he was exiled.

21. Btw it’s pretty sure that ungolianth is not a maia because Tolkien refused in his later writings the concept that maiar have children everywhere in the world (like the boldog or great eagles) which is quite reasonable since something rotten and evil like an orc or spider shouldn’t have godly blood in them. Since she must be something else.

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