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They finally had reached he end of the long stair and there they rested finally. As they walked on they suddenly saw the outline of a fortress standing in their way. Frodo was very angry because Sméagol had said the way was secret and unwatched. Then Sméagol showed them what he had meant. He led them to a secret hidden cave entrance in the mountain and explained that the other end of the cave lay behind the fortress. So the hobbits walked into the dark cave.
The cave was very dark and it was not empty! In the deep shadows a creature lived which was possibly even worse than the dark lord himself. It was a great, spiderlike creature called Shelob. Gollum had found her lair on his journeys through the mountains and he had made a stoolpigeon for her. So she had not eaten him and he had the advantage of her power to protect him. To this hideous creature he had led the hobbits with the thought of afterwards getting the ring of Frodo. But Frodo and Sam (which he had left after the entering) found a way through the cave and Shelob was too slow. They drove her back with Frodos Elvenlight and so they nearly escaped her but then Frodo stumbled and so she caught him. So far Gollum's plot had succeeded.
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