Exactly what the title says it is.
This is adapted from Monsters and Villains of the Movies and Literature by Gerrie McCall, Dragons: Fearsome Monsters from Myth and Fiction by Gerrie McCall, and Mythical Monsters by Chris McNab.
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LEGS: The ultra-sensitive hairs on her legs detect movement and the scent of her prey approaching. JAWS: Shelob's powerful jaws seize and crush her prey. The needlelike barbs puncture and inject poison into her victim. EYES: A group of eight dull, cruel eyes are Shelob's only vulnerable spot. Her natural habitat is darkness, so any amount of light is painful to her.
SKIN: Her bumpy, pitted hide is so thick that no weapon can pierce it.
A demon is spider form, Shelob lives in a dark, foul-smelling lair of underground tunnels, and devours any living thing that approaches along Spider's Pass. the evil Lord Sauron uses Shelob to guard one of the entrances to his realm. Sauron throws her an Orc every few days to keep her happy. She spins ropelike webs that even a sword cannot break. Somewhere in the maze of black, reeking tunnels she waits, the sensitive hairs on her legs detecting the approach of her next meal. When a victim is tangled in her web, she uses her stinger and needlelike jaws to pump paralyzing poison into his veins.
Shelob is fat from drinking the blood of men, Orcs, and Elves. She attacks and stings the hobbit Frodo in the neck., leaving him paralyzed and helpless. Frodo's friend Sam rips off one of Shelob's legs and puts out one of her eyes, which are the only soft spots on her body. In a fury, she tries to crush Sam beneath her massive body, but she is impaled on Frodo's sword. The injury is not enough to kill her, but she scurries away, wounded.
DID YOU KNOW? Frodo attempts to slash a Shelob with his sword before she is able to attack him, but her armored skin cannot be cut open.
Frodo lights the way through Shelob's lair using the Star-glass, which contains a fragment of the Evening Star's light. Shelob is accustomed to complete darkness, so the light from the Star-glass is painful to her eyes.
Frodo and Sam are led into Spider's Pass by Gollum, a servant of Shelob. Gollum intends to steal the One Ring from Frodo after Shelob devours Frodo and Sam.
Shelob's webs are as strong as steel. She wraps her paralyzed victims in the silk she spins, and leaves them until she is ready to dine on their blood.
