Check Out What Shelob Looks Like in this New Middle-Earth: Shadow of War Trailer

[Trunkage]

Shows how hungry the Middle-earth mythos is for female characters that at this point they have to make them up (the chick from Lost in The Hobbit movies) or transform them from other species altogether (seen here).

Isn't Luthein Tinuviel badass enough?

She threatened Sauron and pretty much saved did the reverse of the Damsal in Distress by saving her boyfriend who got captured.

I mean she entranced Morgoth to sleep, MORGOTH!!!

That whole story is pretty cool. I wish they'd make that into a movie/ game

 

[Callate]

And then Shelob said, "Looking like an attractive female humanoid is never going to be useful again. It's monstrous giant spider all the way, from here on out."

 

[Hawki]

Well that sounds like absolute heresy in regards to Tolkien's novels.

Not entirely.

The game itself is (apparently Minas Ithil falls between The Hobbit and the War of the Ring, when in canon it fell about 1000 years before), but Shelob taking humanoid form? I mean, there's no precedent for it, but unlike Minas Ithil, there's nothing to say that she can't do that.

I will feel happy the day someone faithfully adapts the Silmarillion.

Good luck with that. ;p

And then Shelob said, "Looking like an attractive female humanoid is never going to be useful again. It's monstrous giant spider all the way, from here on out."

Well, chances are those nasty hobbitses are only attracted to their own kind - tall women, even beautiful ones, might be a bit out of reach in more ways than one.

That, and I can buy Shelob needing to manipulate Talion, whereas with Sam and Frodo, brute force is fine.

 

[MeatMachine]

Meh... not nearly as sexy as my bae...

Spoiler

 

[Chimpzy_v1legacy]

So, A Shelob you can fap to. Honestly, I prefer old school giant monster spider. Dat thicc ass!

 

[wizzy555]

Well that sounds like absolute heresy in regards to Tolkien's novels.

Not entirely.

The game itself is (apparently Minas Ithil falls between The Hobbit and the War of the Ring, when in canon it fell about 1000 years before), but Shelob taking humanoid form? I mean, there's no precedent for it, but unlike Minas Ithil, there's nothing to say that she can't do that.

Well they establish in the first game that Sauron being a Maiar can shift at will. (In the books he can definitely shift appearance but it's not clear how quickly he can do it, perhaps not as quickly as the game shows). Shelob being the daughter of the ungollant could have some similar nature.

You can certainly make the argument she isn't simply a giant spider.

PS: I really really hate Talion's face in this one.

 

[cynicalsaint1]

Because the main thing you think when you think about Shelob is "Giant spider monster, sure ... but I sure wish I could @#$! her"

 

[Recusant]

You know, considering that Shelob's a descendant of Ungoliant, who not just Sauron but Melkor ran away from, the idea of her having illusion powers isn't actually that big of a stretch- certainly far less than some of what the first game did.

...Of course, that's not actually going to be brought up; it's just an excuse to stick in a pair of breasts.

 

[immortalfrieza]

You know, considering that Shelob's a descendant of Ungoliant, who not just Sauron but Melkor ran away from, the idea of her having illusion powers isn't actually that big of a stretch- certainly far less than some of what the first game did.

...Of course, that's not actually going to be brought up; it's just an excuse to stick in a pair of breasts.

Nah, though no doubt sex appeal is a nice bonus for them, it's likely mostly just laziness on the part of the developers. It's much easier to make an animate a human or something with a human skeleton than it is a giant spider, and a human model can be reused more easily.