Originally posted by Exa
??Ungoliant fled to the far dark south of the world, not to the void... there are at least two versions of her death... in one she devours herself in hunger, in the other one she is slain by Earendil...
*pounces*
there are THREE versions of her fate
one, she ate herself
two, earendil kills her
three, she survives.....and hides in the deepest darkness of the earth until the end
Lol,
thats the version of the sil. After she ate all of these jewels she returned to the far south... where she stayed until in her great hunger, she ate herself... *searches for the right quote*
"Of the fate of Ungoliant no tale tells. Yet some have said that she ended long ago, when in her uttermost famine she devoured herself at last..."
(Silmarillion, "Of the Flight of the Noldor", end of §18)