• rtxn@lemmy.world
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    5 days ago

    Middle Earth: Shadow of War turned giant spider Shelob into an attractive-by-western-standards woman because… reasons. Whatever you write, you can’t do any worse than that.

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      4 days ago

      That’s actually more justified than you’d think in terms of Tolkienisms. Shelob is more or less a spirit figure as akin to demons as the Maia are to angels, and there’s nothing more Catholic-metaphor approved than lust being used by secret monsters to entrap horny dudes.