U is for Ungoliant

             Ungoliant!  He ought to have remembered, he thought, laboring to cut the dark web, grateful for the Elven blade he now wielded.  Sting, after all, had been intended to defend against creatures of such darkness!  An image of Bilbo seated in front of the parlor fire, reading aloud the tale of the destruction of the Two Trees by means of Morgoth’s spear and Ungoliant’s mouth-parts, Sam sitting solidly against his own shoulder as they listened and imagined the deed.  No wonder Faramir’s teachers quailed at the name of the pass!  It was named for her!  This is the Spider’s Pass!