Shelob
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Sep 25, 2026
CallumHOST
They're really nice paintings.
CallumHOST
We just got the one of Shelob, which is quite creepy in Lord of the Rings, actually.
CallumHOST
But she enjoyed it all.
MatthewHOST
Yeah, she liked it.
TylerHOST
I mean, I'm trying to, like, I really love Giza, Ghoulcaller.
TylerHOST
You love Shelob.
TylerHOST
And I love Shelob, but Shelob pisses people off.
TylerHOST
Yeah.
TylerHOST
you play green black
Chaise LevyGUEST
I try, I try to start about a week before their birthday so that I'm listening to Bilbo disappear at his birthday party on the 22nd so that I have, you know, it's like kind of this dropping into rapport with the legendarium kind of experience.
Chaise LevyGUEST
Um, but you know, So far later, like three books from where I am now, Frodo and Sam are at Cirith Ungol getting ready to go into Shelob's lair.
Chaise LevyGUEST
And they're talking about myth and story.
Chaise LevyGUEST
And Sam says to Frodo, like, do you think they'll ever tell stories about us? Well, will we ever be in a story? And Frodo's response is, we're already in a story.
ChaseGUEST
I try to start about a week before their birthday so that I'm listening to Bilbo disappear at his birthday party on the 22nd so that I have this dropping into rapport with the legendarium kind of experience.
ChaseGUEST
But you know, So far later, like three books from where I am now, Frodo and Sam are at Cirith Ungol getting ready to go into Shelob's lair.
ChaseGUEST
And they're talking about myth and story.
ChaseGUEST
And Sam says to Frodo, like, do you think they'll ever tell stories about us? Well, will we ever be in a story? And Frodo's response is, we're already in a story.
D.J. TaylorGUEST
On the other hand, he's kind of arguing with himself, you know, this kind of good Saruman, bad Saruman.
D.J. TaylorGUEST
simultaneously contending to make sense of this problem of how do we, how, you know, how do we stop Sauron mucking up middle earth with the ring in, in the same, in much the same way, you've got the extraordinary, um, sophisticated chapter where, um, on the road to Shelob's lair, where, um, Gollum is debating with himself what to do, you know, on the one hand, uh, And Frodo is about the only person in the world who's ever evinced any interest in him and been kind to him.
D.J. TaylorGUEST
On the other hand, he knows that a huge reward awaits him if he brings the ring back to the Dark Throne.
D.J. TaylorGUEST
And so you hear Gollum, Sméagol kind of discussing with him.
ChelseaHOST
No, thankfully it didn't.
ChelseaHOST
But yeah, I called this a young Shelob.
ChelseaHOST
Yeah.
ChelseaHOST
Because it's not as big as Shelob.
ArezouHOST
No, this is like Shelob's baby.
ChelseaHOST
so Greer tells her to run and he shoots it but unfortunately his weapons fire brings down a lot of rock and so now the tunnel entrance is blocked Fortunately, Young calls into this planet team and Matt's like, thank God.
ChelseaHOST
We're trapped.
Ben RiggsHOST
Like, you know, I'm rereading Lord of the Rings, and, you know, I'm in the Two Towers, and...
Ben RiggsHOST
Gollum's, of course, going to take them to the lair of Shelob, and the stairs are called Sirith Ungol, and Faramir hears the name Sirith Ungol, and he's like, oh, it's a terrible name, terrible place, and you're like, Sirith Ungol is a great name.
Ben RiggsHOST
It just seizes you.
Ben RiggsHOST
You're like, it does sound terrible.
Jessie EarlHOST
So they are basing it on, uh, technically I say the appendices cause that's where the story is kind of laid out.
Jessie EarlHOST
Um, but there are also references to some of the stories in like the Hobbit and Lord of the Rings, uh, little illusions like, uh, when Frodo says Elbereth, uh, The Light of Elbereth to Shelob, like that's referencing one of, I think, the Valinor using her elvish name.
Jessie EarlHOST
So like you can technically, oh, that's in there.
Jessie EarlHOST
You can use that, you know.
21 MINS LATER
Jessie EarlHOST
And then eventually at one point, and this is where I said they hinted this, but they can't exactly say it, I don't believe, is they had that shot of the trees getting killed during Galadriel's speech.
Jessie EarlHOST
You can see a shot of the trees dying.
Jessie EarlHOST
So how that was done in the books without, I'm going to yada yada a bunch, but Morgoth attacks it with Ungleant, Ungleant, I think is how you say her name? Essentially a giant spider, like primordial spider, who was Shelob's ancestor.
Jessie EarlHOST
Ooh.
SafiHOST
Yeah?
MysticHOST
Maybe it's the whole Shelob from Lord of the Rings thing, but giant spider creatures.
MysticHOST
Why?
SafiHOST
Well, so it's like jump scares for me, right? Like, it's an easy way to activate a specific reaction out of the majority of the population.
Roderick VonhögenHOST
Also, this is the spider season, so I have to be extra careful not to destroy any hunting grounds of the forest spiders that live here.
Roderick VonhögenHOST
I don't want to awaken Shelob.
Roderick VonhögenHOST
Oh, there's a nice house here on my right that I've never seen before.
Roderick VonhögenHOST
I hope I'm not trespassing.
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