On this Sunday, forty years ago, BBC Radio 4 broadcast 'Shelob's Lair', the nineteenth episode of its radio dramatisation of J R R Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings, in which Gollum leads Frodo and Sam into Cirith Ungol and the cobwebbed, labyrinthine lair of the monstrous spider, Shelob, the "last child of Ungoliant to trouble the unhappy world".
Eric Fraser's original art for the BBC's weekly listing magazine Radio Times, shown here, is a complex intersection of black and white spider-thread-lines giving the viewer, perhaps, a Shelob's-eye-view of the doomful entrance through which her prey will pass.
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