PS: You named it Shelob?!

That is weird. I'm confirmedly arachna-phobic myself, but even if I DID have a giant spider, I don't think I could've stood to name it Shelob. That chapter in LoTR was far too graphic for me to look at a spider again without shuddering. And now I've seen the movie.... peep

(Keeping Smirky company as she talks to the silent, white-padded walls of this thread... laugh )

- Hasini.

“Is he dead, Lois?”

“No! But I was really mad and I wanted to kick him between the legs and pull his nose off and put out his eyes with a freshly sharpened pencil and disembowel him with a dull letter opener and strangle him with his own intestines but I stopped myself just in time!”
- Further Down The Road by Terry Leatherwood.