Sam didn't kill Shelob tho? He drove her off which is damn impressive, but she did live.
Pretty sure she had to call all her children from Mirkwood and ended up eating most of them to recover.
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That's actually even better. Depopulated Mirkwood in a few hits.
I think your second para is purely from LotR Online, the MMO? But you're certainly right that Shelob doesn't explicitly die - she flees, seriously wounded, and her fate is unstated as far as I know.
Probably, I did play that game a bit so it has corrupted my knowledge of the books/movies.
"Shelob was gone; and whether she lay long in her lair, nursing her malice and her misery, and in slow years of darkness healed herself from within, rebuilding her clustered eyes, until with hunger like death she spun once more her dreadful snares in the glens of the Mountains of Shadow, this tale does not tell."
I don't know that feels like it does in fact tell that
Legolas leaning over and whispering to Gimli: "Our rivalry is for second place."