Overlooked # 1 - The Most Overlooked Lady in LotR
Overlooked # 2 - Another Undeservedly Forgotten LotR Lady
Her master hated and despised her, and gave her the job no one else wanted to do. He never fed her. She was forced to serve the one who was but a mere servant of the creature who was afraid of her mother�s shadow.
By that time, everyone forgot once-famous deeds of her mother. No one appreciated her ancient lineage. No one appreciated the effort she needed to stay alive, her anatomy being incompatible with the environment in which she lived. Instead of eyes filled with wonder, she saw the eyes filled with hate.
She spend her last days crying in the darkest corner of her home. She was mortally wounded by someone she would never expect could do that to her. And before that, she was insulted, when those she tried to talk to last looked at her with disgust.
Her whole life was a sad history of disappointments.
Who was she? Shelob, the most overlooked lady in the Lord of the Rings.
She was a good wife and mother, always trying to do what she thought was best for her son, trying not only to provide for him while he was young, but to take care of his future as well. Yet this ungrateful son of hers imprisoned her.
The imprisonment neither broke her indomitable spirit, nor hardened it. After being let out of the prison, and getting back her property, she gave everything she had to charity, even though she knew that those who would benefit from it previously called her mean, and stingy, and accused her of petty theft.
She outlived her only son, her only child, and what is a worse fate than that of a mother who has to bury her child? And she could not even weep for him, for this son of hers imprisoned her and destroyed their country�s wealth.
Her every dream and hope was crushed, every single time. Yet this very tragic character is undeservedly overlooked by fanfic writers.
Who is she? Lobelia Sackville-Baggins, She-Hobbit Extraordinaire.
