Ungoliant is a primidorial being who took the shape of a great spider. What or where she came from i
Ungoliant is a primidorial being who took the shape of a great spider. What or where she came from is unknown, even to the valar. From The Book of Lost Tales 1: “Mayhap she was bred of mists and darkness on the confines of the shadowy seas, in that utter dark that came.”. Morgoth came to Ungoliant, knowing her lust to feed off of light and offered an alliance to attack the and obtain the light of the two trees. After Ungoliant had gorged on the sap of the tree’s and fled Valinor, She feasted on the gems that Morgoth had stolen. In turn she grew to a monstrous size, dark and terrible to behold. She saw that Morgoth kept in secret the silmarills that held the light of the trees and refused to give them to her. With appalling rage Ungoliant unleashed a storm of fearsome black webbing that came unseen through the inky void of the Unlight surrounding Her and she ensnared The Dark Lord Morgoth helplessly in a constricting stranglehold that he could never escape. In his helplessness Morgoth gave one last cry to what he thought to be his last breath. His cry echoed in the depths of his stronghold of Angbad and summoned his sevants of shadow and flame the balrog. With their whips of fire that bore unnatural strength from the furnaces of Udun, they tore the webbing and Freed their Lord. In her defeat Ungoliant fled to Nan Dungortheb and bred with great spiders, producing many of her kind. It is said that Ungoliant ultimately perished at her own hands when, in her utmost hunger, she devoured herself. -- source link
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