Whereas others have decorated their house for the winter holidays – namely, christmas, we’ve kept the arachnid Halloween decorations up in our entryway – Cirith Ungol (Sindarin for Spider’s Cleft, or Pass of the Spider).
All Photos by Yours Truly – Glen Green. Click on images to see larger versions.
In a ravine she lived, and took shape as a spider of monstrous form, weaving her black webs in a cleft of the mountains. There she sucked up all light that she could find, and spun it forth again in dark nets of strangling gloom, until no light more could come to her abode; and she was famished.
– J.R.R. Tolkien, The Silmarillion, Of the Darkening of Valinor)
Shelob
Glow in the dark spiders in the windows
Spider feeds on a painted Dollar Store Hand
Skeleton Hand caught in the Web
Silhouette of Spider back-lit against Halloween Lights
Cocoon Corpse Covered in Newly Hatched Spiderlings
Spider Infested Skull Hanging Inverted from the Ceiling
Spider with Glowing Eyes and Baby Glow in the Dark Spiderling
Cocoon Corpse
Cirith Ungol – The Spiders Pass in the Daytime
Shadow Casting Webs
Giant Spider, Prepared to Drop Down on Unsuspecting Halloween Guests
A Hall of Spiders and Their Victims
Cocooned Corpses Strung from the Ceiling
Dark Shapes, with Many Legs and Webbed Corpses
One of the pleasures of adulthood – you can pretty much do whatever makes you happy insider your own home. For me, that means a hallway of giant spiders will continue haunting and hanging all winter long, because, why the hell not?
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