Who kills Shelob?

Galadriel both chooses not to be "She-who-must-be-obeyed" by rejecting Frodo's offer of the One Ring, and gives Frodo her light (the Phial of Galadriel) which enables the hobbits to defeat Shelob.
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What happens to Shelob LOTR?

Here, he managed to stab and paralyze Frodo, webbing him up for a feast. Sam entered as Frodo's hero, fighting off the spider with a short-sword and the Phial of Galadriel, using it to blind her. After taking a beating, Sam managed to stab Shelob in the belly and send her cowering back into her cave.
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Does Shelob survive?

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.
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How did Samwise beat Shelob?

Sam managed to defeat her by letting her impale herself upon Sting when she tried to crush him under her massive body and using all power of the Phial of Galadriel to blind her. Wounded, she fled to her lair and was not seen for the remainder of Lord of the Rings.
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How did Sauron betray Shelob?

In the Second Age, Shelob had been Sauron's ally and lover prior to him betraying her for an opportunity to corrupt Suladân with a Ring of Power. Surrounded by soldiers, Shelob slaughtered them in rage and retreated to Cirith Ungol, swearing revenge.
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Who is bigger Aragog vs Shelob?

It's explained that Shelob's size was roughly eight feet in length and seventeen feet across, which is by no stretch a small spider. However, Aragog is explained to be roughly the size of a small elephant with an eighteen-foot leg span.
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Did Shelob serve Sauron?

It is also seen in the game that Shelob was working with Sauron during the period he was posing as Annatar, and was implied to be his lover before he betrayed her. The mobile version of Shadow of War classifies Shelob as a Maia, though J.R.R. Tolkien never specified her exact nature.
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Is aragog based on Shelob?

Rather than a spoiler alert, it's more of a spider alert. Aragog, the Forbidden Forest-dwelling spider from Harry Potter, is probably influenced by Shelob, the spider that lived in the Ephel Dúath mountains, near Mordor.
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What does Sam shout at Shelob?

"O Elbereth Starkindler from heaven gazing-afar, to thee I cry now in the shadow of (the fear of) death.
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Can Shelob use ring?

She might, but she would not have used it. The spiders and spider-things we read about in Tolkien's work are all motivated primarily by the same thing: hunger. The spiders of Mirkwood capture Bilbo and the dwarves for food: the fact they're also foiling Gandalf's plan is merely a coincidence.
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Was Sauron an elf?

Prior to the publication of The Silmarillion, Sauron's origins and true identity were unclear to those without full access to Tolkien's notes. In early editions of The Guide to Middle Earth, Sauron is described as "probably of the Eldar elves".
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Is Shelob a demon?

According to Tolkien, Shelob was the child of Ungoliant, a spirit of darkness who took the form of a giant spider and allied herself with the dark spirit Melkor in his conflict against the elves. Her origins were uncertain, but she hated the light and fed upon it, making her a natural partner for Melkor.
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Can Shelob turn into a woman?

How, we wondered, did a gargantuan, malevolent arachnid wind up in Shadow of War in a cocktail dress and a human body? Or, rather, why? I spoke to Monolith's creative vice president Michael de Plater earlier this month and took the opportunity to quiz him on the studio's decision to turn Shelob into an attractive lady.
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How old is Shelob?

9 Shelob Is A Relic Of The First Age

The First Age of Middle-earth spans around six centuries, starting with the "Awakening of Men" and concluding with the removal of Morgoth from Arda through the Tarn Fui. Shelob is born at some point during this era, making her several thousand years old at the very least.
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What spider is Shelob based on?

Shelob is related to most, if not all, of the spiders in the LOTR world-- not just the spiders of Mirkwood-- like the spiders of Nan Dungortheb. Her look and size are based on the New Zealand Tunnel-Web Spider. The spider has a large, smooth, thick exoskeleton with large fangs and large spinnerets on its abdomen.
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Who is Shelob's father?

Shelob is an offspring of Ungoliant.
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Is Shelob related to Ungoliant?

Ungoliant (Sindarin; IPA: [uŋˈɡoljant]) was a primordial taking the shape of a gigantic spider. She was initially an ally of Melkor in Aman, and for a short time in Middle-earth as well. She was a distant mother of Shelob, and the oldest and first giant spider of Arda.
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Does Frodo abandon Sam?

Frodo, who is already suspicious of everything around him, and is not in a fit mental state to reason as he is slipping further and further into the clutches of the ring, sends Sam away, telling him that he can't go with Frodo any further, and must return home.
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What killed Aragog?

That same year, Aragog contracted an unknown illness over the summer, and despite Hagrid's attempts to heal and comfort Aragog by feeding him giant grubs, he eventually died on 20 April, 1997.
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Who is Aragog's wife?

Mosag was a female Acromantula, and the wife of Aragog. Sometime before 1993, Mosag gave birth to hundreds of baby acromantulas and co-founded the acromantula colony located in the Forbidden Forest near Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. Her husband died later in 1997.
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Was Hagrid mad at Aragog?

Unfortunately he was wrong - he had misjudged Aragog's nature. Still, there is no reason to believe that Hagrid sent Harry and Ron to Aragog believing they'd come to harm.
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What did Shelob eat?

Shelob also ate anything and everything that she could. Literally. The Two Towers text informs us that "all living things were her food." While her appetite and palate may have known no bounds, though, the villain still has her preferences.
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Was Shelob an ally of Sauron?

Shelob was a Maiar who was one of the greatest offspring of Ungoliant and lived in the land of Mordor. She was once an ally of Sauron before the Dark Lord abandoned her and exiled herself in the mountains. Her brood still infest portions of Mordor.
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How many balrogs are there?

In Tolkien's later writings, he made note of the fact that there could not have ever been more than seven Balrogs, yet they were able to drive away Ungoliant in what was described as a "tempest of fire". In another early writing, the Lord of the Balrogs was named Lungorthin.
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