A partial English translation of Torech Ungol, the name of the black, mazelike lair of Shelob in the pass of Cirith Ungol.
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We don't know exactly when Shelob made her lair in the Mountains of Shadow, but we do know that she found her way to Cirith Ungol before Sauron had begun building the Barad-dûr. The building of the Dark Tower began in about the year II 1000, so Shelob had haunted Cirith Ungol since before that date (and perhaps as early as the beginning of the Second Age).
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We know that Shelob was still present in her lair at the time of the War of the Ring, at least 5,400 years after she had first settled there. Whether she survived there much longer after the War is unknown, but it seems more than plausible that the new King Aragorn would have made efforts to deal with the menace on his eastern borders.
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Shelob's name comes from a compound 'she-lob' (that is, 'she-spider'), so the first syllable is almost certainly pronounced like the English word 'she'. Following the rules of Elvish pronunciation, it would have a short 'e' sound, something like 'sheh', but those rules do not appear to hold in this particular case.
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