The One Ring: The Giant Spiders #1 (Wargames Atlantic)

Hello!

I invite You for a first entry with Middle-earth spiders! I used very nice models of spiders from Wargames Atlantic.

For the first two babies (in a week a really BIG one!) I made some different bases (I like both the idea with the forest rotten mushroom and the heap of gold!) - I think they will look pretty cool in different projects as supporting characters.

I invite!

Giant, sapient spiders, also known as the Children of Ungoliant, lived in particularly dark and perilous places in Middle-earth. Those who spoke were vicious and malevolent creatures, and their presence was typically considered a blight.

The first Dark Lord, Melkor, used big spider- Ungoliant to help him destroy the Two Trees of Valinor and steal the Silmarils. Ungoliant, who had an insatiable desire to devour light, demanded the Silmarils. Melkor refused and she attempted to kill him.
Ungoliant was subsequently driven off by Melkor's Balrogs, and she ultimately wandered across Middle-earth, consuming anything that gave light such as gemstones; and often mated with other large spiders.
Her offspring were a great bane on the world in later years.
She was described as surrounded by "an aura of darkness".
Her fate is unknown, but it is said that, always hungry, Ungoliant ended by devouring herself.

The hobbit Bilbo Baggins and his thirteen Dwarf companions encountered giant spiders in Mirkwood on their Quest to the Lonely Mountain.
They managed to capture and entangle in webs each of the thirteen Dwarves. Only Bilbo's magic Ring and his Elven blade (Sting) allowed them to escape from being eaten.

Frodo Baggins and Samwise Gamgee encountered the lone, giant spider Shelob in her lair, within caves near Cirith Ungol, as they were trying to enter Mordor in their quest to destroy the One Ring.
Frodo was ambushed by her twice, and paralyzed by her poison on the second encounter.
Sam used Sting to attack Shelob and wound her, which caused her to flee.
Her fate is unspecified.