A new study has looked into this size misestimation phenomenon a little further, asking participants to estimate the size of ...

Gollum Was Shelob's Servant in The Lord of the Rings Shelob was a beast feared long before The Lord of the Rings, yet her fall from grace left the giant spider as nothing more than Sauron's evil pet.

2. Ungoliant The Ungoliant is the most powerful creature to ever exist. The incredibly mighty giant spider that Frodo encountered – Shelob – is a direct descendant of the Ungoliant. However, when it ...

Notorious on-screen spiders, including Shelob, get a shout-out in “The Art and Science of Arachnids,” a new temporary exhibit at the Peggy Notebaert Nature Museum.

For the first time in the fantasy gaming series' history, players will not be menaced by giant, eight-legged beasties. There's plenty of other things trying to eat you, though. Dragon Age is one ...

A giant Joro spider has been confirmed in Boston for the first time. It’s “the most northern sighting yet,” the leading Joro researcher from the University of Georgia told the Her… ...

The giant, venomous arachnid was spotted in Boston's Beacon Hill neighborhood. Mount Vernon Street resident Sally Rogers shared photos of the big black and yellow spider in its web with WBZ-TV.

The Lord of the Rings: A Musical Tale is geared towards fans of the books, and yet also contains a lot of things that will probably annoy them. Still, it's worth seeing for the energy and novelty.

Amazon Studios It’s a really flagrant mash-up of the Shelob sequence from The Return of the King and Aliens, but it gets away with it because it’s really, really good.