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More than likey they also would not have had to bother with the tower of Cirith Ungol at all. If they slipped by Shelob unnoticed, no alert would have been sounded, so no guards would have been patrolling. That would techically mean dealing with a guard tower still filled with it's compliment of orcs, but something tells me that sneaking by that would have been a lesser challenge than Shelob.
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Only too clearly Sam saw how hopeless it would be for him to creep down under those many-eyed walls and pass the watchful gate. And even if he did so, he could not go far on the guarded road beyond: not even the black shadows, lying deep where the red glow could not reach, would shield him long from the night-eyed orcs.
They'd also have to pass very close by the Silent Watchers, who were already "uneasy", according to Gorbag (and the Nazgul too, according to Shagrat), while Frodo and Sam were still climbing the pass. But that brings up another point, which is that the patrols might very well have been sent out anyway, even if Gollum hadn't precipitated the encounter with Shelob. How would that have played out, if our three steadfast adventurers had successfully slipped past the Spider, if Frodo wasn't camatose, and still in possession of the Ring?
In any case, it seems to me it would take at least a smallish eucatastrophe for them to pass the tower safely, Shelob or no. And there's at least a good chance they'd still have to deal with both, even without Gollum's treachery.