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.
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.
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.
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.