Board Thread:Lore/@comment-26272311-20150412005128/@comment-26272311-20150412043549

I don't know,  the book says sam heard with the hearing augmentation from the ring, Shelob "bubbling". It sounds really weird, I know, but blood usually doesn't "bubble" unless the wound was on the lungs. While spiders don't breath through their mouth, rather their legs, the fact Sam cut off one of her legs and stabbed her in the eye, in addition to the impalement, means Shelob's breathing would be somewhat hampered, slowing the healing process, only giving more time for her to bleed to death from her 3 wounds. Because those injuries were pretty bad, even for a creature of that size. Also the healing would be further slowed by the fact that it would be difficult to sneak up on orcs because pain hampers stealth in many cases. Besides, orcs weren't exactly lining up to be eaten by her, even less so after the fall of Sauron, we can infer.