for the lesser.

 lay south of the Bay of Eldamar, beneath the eastern feet of the Pelуri, and its long and mournful shores stretched away into the south, ligh   tless and unexplored. There, beneath the sheer walls of the mountains and the cold dark sea, the shadows were deepest and thickest in the world; and there in Avathar, secret and unknown, Ungoliant had made her abode. The Eldar knew not whence she came; but some have said that in ages long before she descended from the darkness that lies about Arda, when Melkor first looked

 

down in envy upon the Kingdom of Manwл, and that in the beginning she was one of those that he corrupted to his service. But she had disowned her Master, desiring to be mistress of her own lust, taking all things to hers    elf to feed her emptiness; and she fled to the south, escaping the assaults of the Valar and the hunters of Oromл, for their vigilance had ever been to the north, and the south was long unheeded. Thence she had crept towards the light of the Blessed Realm; for she hungered for light and hated it.