My question revolves more around how content Sauron would be knowing that there was a power lurking in the caves around his land that he couldn't/didn't control. What we know of Sauron would show that he isn't 'happy' unless he is in complete control of everything and I just can't see him shrugging off the existence of or making a bargain with a giant man-eating spider creature. Unless he was afraid of her, and then he would try to manipulate her without her knowledge (or so I imagine), but it doesn't seem like he's doing that. It seems like he's treating her like an equal, and that's just not something he tends to do. So what has Sauron the Almighty treating a mere spider thing like an equal? Is there something I don't know, or is there more to Shelob than we realize?
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