UNGOLIANT
American Folklore
Based on Literature
For my Husband
This is the name of a gigantic spider being in the literary works of the English academic and author J.R.R. Tolkien (1892-1973) in "The Hobbit" (1937) and "Lord of the Rings" (1955). UNGOLIANT was a vast female spider the wove her vicious web of Unlight, killing the light of the trees of Valar. When she bred with her kind in the Nan Dungotheb, or "Valley of Dreadful Death", she produced SHELOB among many of her monstrous spiders. They were eventually killed in raging floods after the War of Wrath, and she was said to have consumed herself with hunger.
Source: Giants, Monsters, and Dragons: An Encyclopedia of Folklore, Legend, and Myth