Ungoliant.

[Karita Alexander]

Ungoliant is high up on my list of favorite Tolkien characters due to her being weird, unexplained, and genuinely scary. While it would be easy to do the obviously-evil-crazy-lady thing (think Bellatrix Lestrange as played by Helena Bonham Carter), I think we should cast the pre-giant spider Ungoliant with somewhat more subtlety. I personally imagine a beautiful female with an unsettling gaze and a voice in a lower register.
So I would like to nominate Ruth Negga. She has played a variety of characters, but I first came across her as the cold and manipulative Raina in Agents of S.H.E.I.L.D. In my opinion that character outshone all of the other Bad Guys that she was working for; and I can easily picture this actress playing someone who is capable of creeping out the normally very self-assured Melkor.

 

[Nicholas Palazzo]

I remember her. She is creepy.

 

[Haakon]

I nominate Krysten Ritter.

 

[NonMortis]

2nd, love the Krysten idea.

 

[easttexas]

Tilda Swinton. She has a sort of emaciated look that I think would suit a humanoid representation of Ungoliant, due to her constant hunger.

 

[Haakon]

Tilda Swinton. She has a sort of emaciated look that I think would suit a humanoid representation of Ungoliant, due to her constant hunger.

Good suggestion! I wish we had nominated her.

 

[Ange1e4e5]

Helena Bonham-Carter, in my opinion.

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[TheWitchKing]

What actually happened to Ungoliant in the end?

 

[Haakon]

What actually happened to Ungoliant in the end?

If I remember correctly, her destiny is unknown, but it is said that she might have consumed herself.

 

[NotACat]

If I remember correctly, her destiny is unknown, but it is said that she might have consumed herself.

Isn't there an "apocryphal story", or the next best thing, that Eärendil killed her during his voyages in Vingilótë?

 

[Haakon]

Isn't there an "apocryphal story", or the next best thing, that Eärendil killed her during his voyages in Vingilótë?

Personally, I hope not - I think the idea of her eating herself is perfect. But I don't know, I haven't read all the volumes of HOME.

 

[ouzaru]

I think that was one of the tales he planned but never wrote. I think Tolkien ever only wrote one poem about Earendil's voyages that wasn't specifically the part we get in the Published Silmarillion.