A beast from the Lord of the Rings trilogy by J.R.R. Tolkien. She is most well known for heavily resembling a monstrous
spider, albeit with a wasp
stinger and a gaping mouth, despite real world spiders having a liquid diet. She appeared in The Two Towers, but the film places her in Return of the
King.
"Most like a spider she was, but huger than the great hunting beasts, and more terrible than they because of the evil purpose in her remorseless eyes. Great horns she had, and behind her short stalk-like neck was her
huge swollen body, a vast bloated
bag, swaying and sagging beneath her legs; its great bulk was
black, blotched with livid marks, but the belly underneath was pale and luminous and gave forth a stench. Her legs were bent, with great knobbed joints
high above her back, and hairs that stuck out like steel spines, and at each
leg's end there was a claw." -Description of Shelob from The Two Towers