Gollum would attempt later to fulfil this promise by leading Frodo and Sam into her lair and abandoning them. Orcs of Cirith Ungol had seen him on several occasions and believed that he was too thin and wiry for Shelob to bother eating. She caught him, but he survived the encounter by promising to bring her tastier meats than he.
However, as she was a more effective guard for the pass than they, Sauron never made any serious attempt to stop her (though Orcs would occasionally try to barricade her lair with stones).Īt one point after being set free from Mordor, Gollum stumbled into her lair while attempting to escape the barren country. She would also sometimes eat Orcs that manned the Tower of Cirith Ungol. Reports of the massacre made by Shelob would be carried back to Barad-dûr to further please the Dark Lord's humor. Sauron would sometimes give her food in the form of prisoners for which he had no more use, or servants who had displeased him. Sauron was known to be somewhat fond of her, and in a rare show of humor, was even known to refer to her as his cat. Sauron was aware of Shelob's presence in the mountains and allowed her to dwell there, for she made an excellent, if incidental, guard for the pass of Cirith Ungol. She feasted primarily on those who wandered into her webs, though if a particularly juicy morsel was available, she would silently pursue and kill it. For thousands of years she resided there, making a labyrinth of webs within a network of caves to better trap her prey, which included all creatures great and small. By the Second Age, she often feasted on her own children, and that at some point after fleeing from Beleriand, yet long before Sauron took the land of Mordor for himself she spun a dark lair in the Ephel Dúath (Mountains of Shadow) in Cirith Ungol. Shelob's early history is completely unknown, save for the assumption that she was born in the Ered Gorgoroth and that she was the "last child" of Ungoliant.
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