I've heard rumors to that effect, yes. But if you'll accept an opinion from someone who's only seen the movies, not read the books, I think it's Sam all the way for that spider - Shelob's a closet sub - it's all so madly Scarlett O'Hara: "For the first time in her life she had met someone, something stronger than she, someone she could neither bully nor break, someone who was bullying and breaking her..."

This is OT, isn't it? Oops.