This crackpot theory may have you saying "he's smoking Old Toady", but I think that the spiders in The Hobbit seem more menacing given evil thoughts and voices, otherwise they would just be a bunch of overgrown house-arachnids. Shelob on the other hand is a single, huge malevolent presence. Not only does she not need to speak to seem more evil, but her talking would surely detract from the alien horror of her and her lair.
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But Gwindor answered: 'The doom lies in yourself, not in your name'.
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