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<blockquote data-quote="humble minion" data-source="post: 1539711" data-attributes="member: 5948">Not necessarily.&nbsp; The most obvious time for Frodo to have been shortened (even further) was when he was imprisoned after being bitten by Shelob.&nbsp; Sam is still wandering round Mordor with the Ring, or more likely got strangled by Gollum one dark night, who then promptly grabbed his Precious and disappeared down a dark hole.&nbsp; The quest to destroy the Ring has failed utterly, the armies of the West are destroyed to the last at the Black Gate simply by weight of numbers rather than the power of Sauron reunited with the One.&nbsp; A new Age of brutal conventional war against an overwhelming foe looms on the horizon for the exhausted West.&nbsp;&nbsp;Alternatively:&nbsp;Like Mother Like Daughter: Ungoliant wanted to devour the world, to the point that eventually, bereft of any other sustenance, her hunger drove her to devour herself.&nbsp; Shelob the Great, after a routine meal of two soft wriggling things led to Cirith Ungol by her Sneak, found herself heir to these dreams.&nbsp; And the new power burning in her belly meant she could do it, too...&nbsp; (and when the heroes finally slay Shelob - what of the still-untarnished Ring that they retrieve from her black entrails?)</blockquote>

[QUOTE="humble minion, post: 1539711, member: 5948"] Not necessarily. The most obvious time for Frodo to have been shortened (even further) was when he was imprisoned after being bitten by Shelob. Sam is still wandering round Mordor with the Ring, or more likely got strangled by Gollum one dark night, who then promptly grabbed his Precious and disappeared down a dark hole. The quest to destroy the Ring has failed utterly, the armies of the West are destroyed to the last at the Black Gate simply by weight of numbers rather than the power of Sauron reunited with the One. A new Age of brutal conventional war against an overwhelming foe looms on the horizon for the exhausted West. Alternatively: Like Mother Like Daughter: Ungoliant wanted to devour the world, to the point that eventually, bereft of any other sustenance, her hunger drove her to devour herself. Shelob the Great, after a routine meal of two soft wriggling things led to Cirith Ungol by her Sneak, found herself heir to these dreams. And the new power burning in her belly meant she could do it, too... (and when the heroes finally slay Shelob - what of the still-untarnished Ring that they retrieve from her black entrails?) [/QUOTE]

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