Smeagol's Story

Firstly, I'm sorry I haven't been posting.
Secondly, I'm writing Smeagol's story.

Smeagol's story begins on his birthday while he is fishing with his friend Deagol. Deagol falls out of the boat, and happens to find a shiny ring. Smeagol sees the ring and wants it. After Deagol refuses to give it up, Smeagol kills him and takes the ring. The ring drives him mad, he finds out it turns him invisible and he starts stealing from shops in town. The townspeople kick him out of town, and he flees to the mountains. He lived in the mountain for hundreds of years. Gandalf, Bilbo, and Thoren's dwarfs eventually come to that mountain he is in. Bilbo falls down a tunnel, sees the ring on the ground and takes it, and meets Smeagol there too. They have a riddling game, and Bilbo wins. So Smeagol has to show him the way out. Bilbo asked 'What have I got in my pocket?' and Smeagol believed this to be unfair, so refused to lead him out. He suspected that Bilbo already knew how to get out. Bilbo had the ring on and couldn't be seen. Smeagol goes to the exit and Bilbo follows. Bilbo escapes, and that started Smeagol's journey to get back at the Baggins family. He tracked them down, and found The Fellowship in Moria, kept chasing them and was seen on the Anduin. He is eventually caught after the Fellowship splits. Frodo and Sam make him be there guide. Smeagol leads them to Mordor, but Frodo and Sam can't make it past the Black Gate. He tells them there's another way, and leads them to it. While leading them there, they meet Faramir, and spend time with him. Faramir threatens to kill Smeagol if danger comes to Frodo and Sam. Smeagol leads them to Shelob's tunnel. He intends to get them killed, but Frodo gets poisoned and Sam stabs Shelob. Frodo gets carried off to Cirith Ungol, and Sam follows. Frodo and Sam escape the tower and eventually make it to Mount Doom. Smeagol again comes and tries to kill them. They fight in the Crack of Doom, and he bites off Frodo's finger and steals the ring, but he dances with joy and falls in the volcano. Although he ment to do bad, without him, Middle Earth would have been governed by Sauron.

Original "A Long Expected Party"

In the original version of "A Long Expected Party," Bilbo announces he is leaving and getting married. Tolkien messed around with the idea, and came up with him getting married and having a son, Bingo, and it's his party not Bilbo's. He then makes Bingo Bilbo's nephew that he adopted. It is still Bingo's party. Evidently he stuck to this idea, but liked the name Frodo, so he changed it.

Faramir

Faramir is the younger brother of Gondorian Fellowship member, Boromir. He is also the Captain of the Gondorian Rangers. Frodo and Sam run across him and his men in Ithillien. They then "witness" a battle between the Rangers and the Haradrim. That is, they are in a lightly wooded area and hear the battle. Anyhow, Faramir then takes them to a cave. Before they leave, he orders Frodo and Sam to be blindfolded and have their hands tied behind their backs. They then set off. After a few days at the cave, Faramir lets them go and heads off to Osgiliath. He comes into the story later, and tells Gandalf and Pippin what happened. He is then ordered by his father, Denethor, to go and fight the oncoming army. He leads a troop of cavalry towards them, and fights for quite sometime. But when he returns, he is dying, pierced by a poisonous dart. Denethor despares and thinks him dead. He then attempts to burn Faramir and himself before Minis Tirith is overrun. Pippin, who by this time was in the Gondorian army, heard of this and got Gandalf. After a while, Gandalf arrives and clears things up, but Denethor burns himself and dies with a palantir in his hands. So Denethor dies, and Farimir is brought to the Houses of Healing. Eowyn, who snuck in posing as a Rohanian soldier, got wounded in battle by the Witch King. She also is brought to the Houses of Healing. Both seem to be getting worse, but Aaragorn, the new king of Gondor, heals them both, because the hand of the healer is the hand of the king. So says an ancient poem. While gradually recovering, they are also gradually falling in love. After the war is over and evil is wiped away, they get married, and he is named the Prince of Ithillien. That is where his story ends, and his is a story both of happiness, and sadness alike.

Shelob

In The Return of the King movie, Sam and Frodo part before Shelob's Lair.

In the book, The Two Towers (not in The Return of the King), Sam and Frodo stick together the entire time. They only get split up in Shelob's Lair when Gollum jumps on Sam. That is how Frodo gets wounded by Shelob. Sam fights Gollum off, and then goes and wounds Shelob, then runs when he hears the orcs.

From Ungoliant to Shelob (A History of Giant Spiders)

Ungoliant is the first spider you meet in the entire Middle Earth series. She is working under Melchor, but after destroying town and devouring anything she sees. She finishes her job for him, and wants a reward, but Melchor is afraid of her, but he reluctantly holds takes a Silmaril in his hand, but she eats it, and it drives her mad (I don't remember how he gets it back :/). Then there are the smaller spiders in The Hobbit. They are not as terrifying to read about, but to a hobbit and 13 dwarves, several of those spiders are quite frightening. They capture the heroes, but they miss Bilbo. He frees his companions and holds off the spiders with Sting. The last spider is Shelob, the terror at Cirith Ungol (the pass). She is not quite as big as Ungoliant, but almost as scary (definatly for Sam and Frodo). She guards the pass into Mordor and kills all who try to enter Mordor. Frodo gets captured, so Sam comes in to save him. He uses Sting to stab her belly. What happens after that, no one knows. We know Shelob was wounded, and we know she lived, but there is no other history about her.