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

)
- Hasini.