I remember the orcs saying something to that effect. I think they did communicate "some how" As Gollum survived his encounter with Shelob by "promising to bring her tastier meats". ; Shelob is an adaptation of the character of the same name from The Two Towers novel and the The Return of the King film, a monstrous entity in the shape of a giant spider who is worshiped by Gollum, attacks Frodo, and is severely injured by Samwise. Gollum leads Sam and Frodo to a dark stone wall and to a cave within it, which they enter. History. Shelob let Gollum live because he would kill or incapacitate orcs and bring them back to her lair to eat. And Gollum had brought it to her. My understanding is that all of the Great Spiders could talk. Trivia. Gollum deliberately leads Frodo Baggins there in hopes of recovering the One Ring when Shelob attacks Frodo. I don’t think she could speak in the sense that one person speaks to another. Gollum’s reappearance at the chapter’s end is very visceral and upsetting. Gollum visits the great spider Shelob, child of Ungoliant, because he is planning to betray the Hobbits to her and then get the Ring for himself. De Plater apparently considers Shelob and Gollum as "unsung heroes" of Lord of the Rings, Gollum because he's the one who actually (sorry, spoiler alert) destroys the ring and Shelob … The mobile version of Shadow of War classifies Shelob as a Maia. Sauron tolerated Shelob because she was the perfect guardian to one of the very few entrances to his realm of Mordor. Shelob guards the second entrance to Mordor - the pass of Cirith Ungol. However, Sam wakes up and speaks harshly to Gollum, and all hope of redemption is lost. When he returns, he finds the Hobbits sleeping, and the sight of Frodo asleep nearly moves Gollum to repent. Although you are right that he never 'talked' to her about the ring. Gollum must have been letting her know he was back and soon bringing some specially nice treats for her ladyship. 'We'll see, we'll see,' he said often to himself, when the evil mood was on him, as he walked the dangerous road from Emyn Muil to Morgul Vale , 'we'll see. Which he did in the form of Sam and Frodo. The smell is overwhelmingly bad. Shelob is a fictional demon in the form of a giant spider from J. R. R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings.Her lair lies in Cirith Ungol ("the pass of the spider") leading into Mordor. he just figured she would let it … Gollum basically just told Shelob that if she let him go he’d give her a better meal. Also Gollum was sneaking off as Sam, Frodo, and he got closer to Cirith Ungol and Shelob's Lair. Gollum takes the hobbits Frodo and Sam this route as an alternative way into the Black Land (the only other known way to enter Mordor being the Black Gate) and they encounter Shelob. 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