Shadow of War - All Shelob Cutscenes + Secret Cinematic Cutscene 

"Christopher, my son, did I ever tell you the full story of Shelob? You know, the monstrous spider - descended from the vile Ungoliant! - which I used to read aloud of in our Oxford meetings of the Inklings? Well what I didn't mention back then was Shelob could also transform into a totally hot babe: all pale and dark and wan like Rebecca in Ivanhoe or what will later come to be known as the goth subculture. In fact she looked very much like the pornographic actress Stoya who will be born 13 years after I die. Christopher, I will be entrusting you with my estate. If there is ever a videogame adaptation of my work you must make sure they get this Shelob right - make sure she is what the Anglo-Saxons would have called a hæða ecge, a real sexy bitch." -J. R. R. Tolkien

20 percent of comments: this is against lore! 80 percent of comments: she can spin me a web any day😂

I'm an arachnophobe and this confuses me deeply.

its just so sad that Talion was ready to give up the ring, which would essentially have meant death for him, just to save Celebrimbor from Shelob...but Celebrimbor abandoned him so easily, leaving him for death, when he realized that they did not see eye to eye....feelsbadman :/

tfw you realize you voluntarily dated a guy called "The Deceiver," "The Cruel" and "the Abhorred" and thought it would end well.

Somehow, I was surprised that despite all of Celebrimbor´s warning, Shelob didn´t betray Talion. In fact, she was pretty honest and gave him good advice, including the consequences of playing with rings of power.

I almost have a feeling that the game creators mistook Shelob for her mom - Ungoliath. She was probably powerful enough to transform into a human.

shelob? more like shehot

Pro-Tip for all you girls out there: Don't trust guys nicknamed "The Great Deciever"

I like how the writers had Sauron betray Shelob, like her mother Ungoliant was betrayed by Sauron's mentor Melkor/Morgoth in The Silmarillion. That was a nice history repeating itself from mother to daughter.

Talion: "I've come to see more." Shelob: "I know." Me: "Don't do it, Talion. She is LITERALLY a man-eater!"

"In other news, a devastating earthquake rocked Oxford earlier today. Scientists are baffled as to the earthquake's origins, but some experts have suggested it may have been caused by the the late JRR Tolkein furiously spinning in his grave."

Talion: "I want to see more!" . Yeah me too...

Lesson learned: NEVER TRUST ELVES, only put your faith in the spider

Total SILF.

Shelob was actually extremely honorable in this story.

Really nice irony how Shelob only deals in truth given the expression, "web of lies."

Reminder: Shelob is not a shapeshifter. Her “human form” is only seen in the wraith-world.

Omg they found a way to oversexualize the giant spider from return of the king how??? Goddamn lol

I'm surprised at how many, "MUH LORE!" comments there are. I thought it was common knowledge that neither Shadows of Mordor or Shadows of War are canon. That pretty much settles it for me. This is sort of an alternate timeline version of LOTR. It's like fanfiction. Cool? Yes. Official? Hells no. Relax, your lore remains in tact.

when Sauron takes shape of elf , he looks badass as fuck

I... don't know what to think of this development. I've read the book, I know the lore. Shelob isn't just some giant spider, but giving her the ability to take on a human form AND making her Sauron's former squeeze? That's a bit tough to swallow.

Apparently Shelob is now a hot, leggy woman in a rather flattering dress because the Devs thought she was secretly a hero. But it was mostly an excuse to have a hot leggy woman around for no reason.

Damn Sauron actually smashed her..

I can already see the new wave of LOTR erotica.

98% of the comments: “lemme smash”

So apparently Shelob is Yennifer? Crossover of the century

So Shelob and Sauron were once a thing? Their breakup wasn't a pretty one.

Excerp from Return of the King: "But still, she was there, who was there before Sauron, and before the first stone of Barad-dûr; and she served none but herself, drinking the blood of Elves and Men, bloated and grown fat with endless brooding on her feasts, weaving webs of shadow; for all living things were her food, and her vomit darkness." Basically a giant, fat, bloated monstrosity, and not an attractive woman. If this was canon Shelob would have wanted to jab the main character immediately, then drag him to her lair where she could feast on his flesh in the stinking darkness.

I've always wondered why in "Middle-earth: Shadow of War" Shelob basically looks like Galadriel with black hair and dressed in black

They turned a giant Spider into a waifu "SHE-LOB!" - Talion

So... Is this suggesting that Shelob was not always a spider monster? And in Tolkien, she is *just* a spider. She is a child of Ongoliant, but the children of Ongoliant were purely bestial, not anything like the anomalous spirit-thing that she was. She should not be able to shape-shift, since she's basically just a larger and more intelligent version of the spiders of Mirkwood, not some sort of Maya like Gandalf, Saruman or Sauron.

I love that this game shows a grimy, grey side of Middle Earth. As side we know always eventually slides into evil, but as side we know must exist because of canon characters like Isuldur, Saruman and Smeagol...

Shelob looks like Millia Jovovich with a mature voice.

14:23 that sentence has a different meaning once you've collected all of the memories

The actress is Polyanna McIntosh you may know her from the The Walking Dead seasons 7 etc...

I always wondered if Shelob was into the politics of Middle Earth, she had to have been intelligent being a child of Ungoliant. I dunno if this is canon, but I think how they developed her is really cool.

I love how they basically made her a darker version of Galadriel

I find it amazing that someone like Sauron had a relationship, especially that Shelob was the one he was with, it makes me think, that their relationship was probably one sided

Trivia: The actress who voices Shelob is Pollyanna McIntosh (Jadis in "The Walking Dead").

I'd totally "slay" that spider. My weapon of choice would be a "spear" to "penetrate" her "armor". Once her armor is "broken" I would target her "weak points" with lots of "concentrated stabs". After the "battle" is over I'd "loot" whats left and stick my "finger" through her "ring" which belongs to me now! 14:58

“To what end? For knowledge? To dominate?” To... dominate

So for anyone who is annoyed at Shelob taking the form of an attractive humanoid: 1 - Maiar and Valar characters did this all the time in the TKverse (look cool/wise/beautiful) 2 - She is in the wraith world in this form. 3 - Even Tolkien had inconsistencies and huge revisions! There's some room for flexibility 4 - deal wit it

THICC even in human form

Odd how Celebrimbor is blind to how Ar-Pharazon tried to enslave Sauron as well, and that it did not go well.

Golems connections with her will interpreted in a VERY different way in the movies

damn i had no idea shelob would be soo "alturistic" to say the least.. and sexy to boot..

"Little she knew of or cared for towers, or rings, or anything devised by mind or hand, who only desired death for all others, mind and body, and for herself a glut of life. alone, swollen till the mountains could no longer hold her up and the darkness could not contain her." (Two Towers; Shelob's lair) So much for source material

Yennefer!?

Giving a part of his soul back from Shelob which can fortune tell is a pretty unique way to bring MC back to life without making it too cliche.

Shelob is being soft and rough at the same time. This game has so many awesome characters, why cannot this be a propper RPG instead?

for all of you confused about how shes a woman. she isnt a spider, or a woman, but in fact a demon. this demon can take many forms and was actually saurons lover for a time. shes actuall a maia in the shadow of war game but canonically shes just a demon.

Shelob a hot lady? Wtf did i just watch

That humanoid form seems more appropriate for a human form for Ungoliath. Ungoliath is not only a great spider, but a physical form of Darkness. Tom Bombadil might be the physical form of light and whats good, he also had a humanoid form.

Rosie Cotton (to Sam): So....THIS is the "giant spider" you "stabbed"?

Shelob an offspring of primordial Spider Ungoliant. She's weaker than a balrog as she couldnt manage to drain much of a power in her lifetime unlike her mother..she was fucking powerful so powerful and big that almost Pwn Morgoth... "Morgoth gave out a terrible cry of pain as she attacked, which was heard a company of Balrogs hibernating under the ruins of Angband.They awoke and immediately rushed to the aid of their Lord, tearing apart Ungoliant's webbing with their fiery whips and forcing her to break off her attack.Ungoliant's attack upon Morgoth left an echoing scream ever after on the land that gave the area the name Lammoth, and it is said to this day that when one screams in that place, the voice of the Dark Lord echoes back from the surrounding hills."

Soooo yeah, i guess I appreciate the poetic license and creativity but shelob always was a spider.

Feels bad when you realize that among all the characters Talion encountered, the only one he could completely trust was the giant spider demon woman.

"Milf shelob What other extravaganza do they have in stock ?" *Black Gondorian appears*

Personally I quite enjoyed this version of shelob, and that is as a long standing tokien fan and person who prefers giant monsters over human-like threats. I simply place it and the rest of Shadow of Mordor in the category of "Interpretations" and that's great, and I kinda wish that the wonderful mythology was more up for interesting twists and interpretations in a fashion similar to myths such as the norse or greek. As for Shelob herself, I kinda loved the Dark Galadriel vibe she had going on and thought it was an interesting twist. I don't think it was stated, but in my head, I assumed they were simply assuming that Ungoliant was one of the fallen Ainur (an interpretation Ive seen before) in which case its not outrageous to assume she and her offspring would have the ability to change form.

I love how so many people hate this and call it a travesty. Chill. It's not canonical to Lord of the Rings' lore, anyway, so what does it matter? For all the faults in the game's lore, it's nothing compared to Peter Jackson's take on The Hobbit. Now that, my friends, is a travesty. Those films are a cash grab joke. I feel like the Shadow of games respected the source material far more than Jackson's latest in the franchise.

1:25 I love how here, when Shelob says “to suffer” her human(?) form’s mouth doesn’t move, showing how that form is not real 9:51 same here 23:36 damn tho, this may not be accurate to the books but I really like this interpretation where she seems to transform into her spidery-self over time Also the scene in this when she’s heading towards the mountains and her limbs are moving so creepily is fantastic

Can't believe Frodo wouldn't smash, only stab.

Damn Stoya looks amazing in this game.

that why Shelob is just right outside Modor? Because of a one night stand and a restraining order?

Deffinetely interesting characters- none of the main game's playable characters or allies are truly good or evil ....... they just pursue their own purposes in middle-earth

And yet, Sauron called Shelob "his cat".

*Shelob ready to devour Frodo* *Sam appears in the last second* Sam:COME ON YOU FILTH! IT'S ME YOU WANT!! *Shelob turn into woman again* Shelob:It's you I want indeed small man 😉 Sam:HOLD UPPPPPPPP!!

This definitely adds a lot more character to Shelob, and also (for me at least) seems to show that Peter Jackson was right on the nail for his portrayal of Shelob. In the Return Of The King Extended Edition special features, when he was talking about creating Shelob, he said "I wanted Shelob to feel really old, and really, kind of, sick. Not physically sick, but sort of a--mentally sick, psychologically sick." And after seeing this backstory, I can definitely see how she would have gone Bellatrix Lestrange-style batshit crazy.

I’m a couple of years late but I must say that having read the books and played the games I much prefer the later Shelob to the former. As interesting as a giant demon spider that only wants to eat on anything that comes into her lair may be, it lacks the depth that this one has. The game devs could have easily just created a new character and gave them a new name and they would still be better than the original Shelob but instead they gave her purpose, and substance. Not much character depth can be had from a literal spider.

I wanna know what the writers were smoking when they decided to make sauron and shelob a couple.

Lemme Smash

"So let me get this straight: Shelob used to be a Spider lady, but now's she just a big spider?"

Dayum son .. That spider is absolutely THICC

She looks somewhat like a CGI version of Arwyn (Liv Tyler)

Imagine Tolkien coming back to life and finding out they turned Shelob into waifu bait... lmao

I am confused in more ways than one right now...

It may not be canon but I find it kinda cool that she was betrayed by Sauron and that is what changed her into a monsterous Spider. Sort of the thing I imagine happening to the Lady of the Light if she did take the ring from Frodo only with a slightly different result.

Now I envy Sam for putting his "Sting" into Shelob!

Return of the King: Let him go, you filth! Shadow of War: begone THOT!

I don't mind Shelob having shapshifting/illusion power and showing up as a human. I mind her getting involved in all the ringmaking and ringtaking, and making alliances that don't involve food for herself. "Little she knew of or cared for towers, or rings, or anything devised by mind or hand, who only desired death for all others, mind and body, and for herself a glut of life, alone, swollen till the mountains could no longer hold her up and the darkness could not contain her." --The Two Towers

9:49 "She is not our ally!" Celebrimbor is right on this. She's not their ally but she's TALION'S ally.

Imagine if Shelob had actually transformed with Frodo and Sam. Imagine if she had proceeded to warn Frodo of the price he would pay for destroying the ring of the dangers of releasing Celebrimbor

It's funny tho. Shelob was the only one who really helped Talion, and they shared the same goal of defeating Sauron.

Thank god. Thought i was the only having......thoughts about a spider

Geez you people are holding on to the lore like it's the bible or something. I just came to the game with open arms to see what kind of creativity they could burst forth with, making Tolkien's world their own.

To think, Talion saved Celebrimbor from Shelob but Celebrimbor still left him die for Eltariel

What’s always really bugged me is why Shelob didn’t have her spiders close Talion’s wounds. I get he’s the kind of character that’s supposed to die because of *when* his story takes place but if you write somebody like that, you need to be careful, cause you can’t leave room for the slightest opportunity for their life to be saved. At the very least, it likely would have still worked if they made Talion take Celebrimbor’s ring anyway for the power he would’ve found to be necessary to have.

No wonder some authors refuse to let Hollywood or the gaming industry touch their works. They taint whatever they touch. The balance??? This isn't freaking Star Wars.

Shelob sensed Frodo's wound on his shoulder, knowing he is on his way toward being corrupted by the ring and turned into a wraith. She thus wish to kill Frodo and have Golem as her puppet to continue the mission. Sam probably impressed her enough to give up that idea.

I know this is shelob however the game makes her more out to be like ungoliant instead. In the books (as far as I can remember been a long time) ungoliant was describe as a shape shifting female entity that preferred a form similar to that if a spider and was able to weave webs of shadows that had a strong craving for light. It's also unknown if or how she died (mainly assumed she was devoured by shelob and other spiderlings that she birthed). So every time I play shadow of war I always assumed this is actually ungoliant pretending to be shelob (or it was avatar name to keep her hidden since elves would know her true name and would seek to kill her since she was responsible for feeding in the tree of light) and when she was "betrayed by sauron she fled into the mountains and there gave birth to her last children they fed on her because of the light that was inside her once dead her last off spring all scattered but one. That one thrived and grew with all the orcs she fed on in ungoliant cave many believed her to be shelob not realizing that ungoliant (pretending to be shelob) was actually killed and replaced which explains why sauron didn't try to kill her upon discovery, why shelob is more spider than female spider entity, why shelob is different from the movie to game and why shelob here was very strong when you first met her being capable of capturing a spirit. Anyways this is a tolkien fan having fun with it so please don't throw rocks at me lol. But if you have a theory of your own please reply I would love to read them lol

Thank you for posting this!

So Frodo would had seen her like that if he wore the ring while in her lair?

The best spider hugs since Muffet in Undertail... And plenty of them, nice!))

She is very creepy yet powerful

I cannot take the horrifying description of Shelob in The Two Towers - Chapter 20 as seriously now.

Shelob is half demon so shape shifting would be part of her powers. Just like Ungoliant.

Never cheat on your girl. You dont want to awake the shelob-side of her.

Giant spider turns into a hot chick. Chris Griffin: So many confusing feelings- Feelings- Evil, Hot, Bestiality, Historically low mortgage rates Chris: I got to go buy a house

I can already see the rule 34 from Shelob.