Ungoliantes spawn?

[Amarie of the Vanyar]

Why do you say that Ungoliant was the only spider? [img]smilies/wink.gif[/img]

I have always thought that the case for spiders was the same than that for eagles: there were the Great eagles, and normal eagles; and in the same way there was Ungoliant and lesser spiders. Ungoliant's spawn was the result of her union with these normal spiders [img]smilies/wink.gif[/img] (In fact, I remember having read this in any place, but now I can't remember where ...)

EDIT:
I have found it! [img]smilies/smile.gif[/img]

and fleeing from the north she [Ungoliant] went down into Beleriand, and dwelt beneath Ered Gorgoroth, in that dark valley that was after called Nan Dungortheb, the Valley of Dreadful Death, because of the horror that she bred there. For other foul creatures of spider form had dwelt there since the days of the delving of Angband, and she mated with them, and devoured them;
Of the Flight of the Noldor; The Silmarillion

[ June 15, 2003: Message edited by: Amarie of the Vanyar ]