Embrace the shadows, or become a dark terror in your own right with this terrifying yet completely adorable Shelob shawl! Knit up in Leviathan Fibres BFL Fingering, this lustrous knit shawl is just the thing for lurking and lounging in style and comfort.

Using slipped stitches for the spokes of the web and some simple cabling for the body of Shelob, offspring of Ungoliant, this project will be a must for knitters who love our eight-legged and eight-eyed friends, no matter if they are ginormous and life-threatening or small and adorable.

“Do not go to Cirith Ungol!”

“Where then shall I go?” said Frodo. “…What do you know against this place that makes its name so dreadful?”

“Nothing certain,” said Faramir. “We of Gondor do not ever pass east of the Road in these days, and none of us younger men has ever done so, nor has any of us set foot upon the Mountains of Shadow. Of them we know only old report and the rumour of bygone days. But there is some dark terror that dwells in the passes above Minas Morgul. If Cirith Ungol is named, old men and masters of lore will blanch and fall silent.”

The Two Towers, J. R. R. Tolkein