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ry-alfur:

Entree for Silmarillion Writer’s Guild – Silmarillion 40th

Melkor, Ungoliant, and the darkening of Valinor.

Source: ry-alfur

myrkvidrs:

Into the Storm – Melkor vs Ungoliant // by

Sebastian Rodriguez

Source: myrkvidrs

What is Ungoliant outside of being very hungry spider? How short was your encounter with those unnamed things? What do you like more (as food) – a gold or a platina?

I don’t wish to remember these things.

She is one of them– not an Ainu, but a thing outside of creation. They are part of the Void; darkness so old it gained magnitude. When we came into being, that old shadow was scattered; no longer all that ever was, but only its opposite.
If you go far enough from Creation, you can still hear them, as the particles of being and light grow thin in the vastness. Their kingdom is far greater than ours. We are lucky they lack ambition…

I do not know how long I spent with them. Time did not mean anything. It was long enough that I learned to distinguish their individual voices.

That is where I met her. I told her of what was made by the thoughts of Eru. She was curious. Hungry. She followed me back.

….Platinum has a crisp and acrid taste, like watercress. Gold is sweeter. I like sweet things.

Ungoliant Character Designs –RivkaZ 2016

Good ol’ Ungles. For my purposes she’s going to have several forms to choose from, ranging from “Vaguely Humanoid” to “Garage-Sized Death Spider” to “A Vast Screaming Tear In Reality, A Maw Which Opens Into The Void With A Thousand Hungry Eyes, The Devourer of Suns.” She likes to keep it fresh.