Is Ungoliant still alive? What happened to the spider who drank the light of the Two Trees? This Tolkien deep dive follows the answer across fifty years of drafts, because the Silmarillion gives her one sentence and the famous line about her fleeing south was never printed at all.Tolkien wrote four endings for Ungoliant, and they can be dated. Eärendil hunts her down in 1926. She abides yet in 1951. She devours herself in the late 1950s. For a few weeks in May 1944, the creature waiting for Frodo and Sam above Cirith Ungol was still named Ungoliant, until a letter to Christopher Tolkien split her in two and made Shelob.Beren in Nan Dungortheb, an appetite that eats itself, and why the book leaves the door open.🕐 CHAPTERS:0:00 Introduction1:12 What the Book Actually Says5:12 Four Endings in Fifty Years10:13 The Weeks When Shelob Was Ungoliant15:31 The Arithmetic of Appetite20:14 The Creature the Doctrine Can't Reach24:51 Into a Country Nobody Mapped28:13 What an Empty Space Is For#lotr #tolkien #ringsofpower #silmarillion #middleearth #tolkienlore📖 Read more: https://rangeroftherealms.com/episodes/ungoliant-is-she-still-alive/📚 MORE FROM RANGER OF THE REALMS:🔹 Channel: https://youtube.com/@RangeroftheRealms🔹 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/1cBIiWA4DzPVubntEqH2cr🔹 Website: https://rangeroftherealms.com☕ Support: https://ko-fi.com/rangeroftherealms🎬 A DREAMBYTES PRODUCTIONThe works of J.R.R. Tolkien remain under copyright to the Tolkien Estate.This is a fan work created for educational and entertainment purposes.