Uploaded July 2019 | Updated September 2026, 1 week ago
These creatures make their first appearance in An Unexpected Journey when they attack Radagast the Brown’s abode at Rhosgobel but in The Desolation of Smaug they return in full force. Their arachnid-like 8-note tone row creeps from the Mirkwood gloom and tries to capture Thorin’s company. This time however these monsters receive several independent musical ideas, spinning, fast string figures, insistent 2-chord brass and flute ideas that end in violent and aggressive deep exclamations brought to the lowest possible brass in deliciously old fashioned expression of true melodramatic monster music. It is music created to make your skin crawl and truly illustrates the blood curdling creeping horror of the giant spiders.
These creatures make their first appearance in An Unexpected Journey when they attack Radagast the Brown’s abode at Rhosgobel but in The Desolation of Smaug they return in full force. Their arachnid-like 8-note tone row creeps from the Mirkwood gloom and tries to capture Thorin’s company. This time however these monsters receive several independent musical ideas, spinning, fast string figures, insistent 2-chord brass and flute ideas that end in violent and aggressive deep exclamations brought to the lowest possible brass in deliciously old fashioned expression of true melodramatic monster music. It is music created to make your skin crawl and truly illustrates the blood curdling creeping horror of the giant spiders.
