Middle-earth Villains and Beasts

Clues in this puzzle

Across

• Slithering ancestral dragon without wings or breath of flame (4)
• Vain wyrm whose glittering underbelly hid a single missing gem (5)
• Whispering advisor who sapped King Theoden's vitality with deceit (5)
• Insatiable arachnid progenitor who devoured the radiant light of Valinor (9)
• Darksome footsoldier that detests the painful glare of the sun (3)
• High-flying rescuer summoned from the lofty peaks of the Misty Mountains (5)
• Woodsman who traded human shape for a rampaging grizzly form (5)
• Schizophrenic cave-crawler haunted by riddle games and lost jewelry (6)

Down

• Chilling specter that binds trespassers within ancient barrow mounds (5)
• Nocturnal mammal whose vast clouds obscured the sky during the Battle of Five Armies (3)
• Deceiver who took fair form as Annatar before losing his corporeal guise (6)
• Ancient mossy giant who takes a remarkably long time to say anything (3)
• Tentacled pool-dweller outside the West-gate of Khazad-dum (7)
• Nine-member squad bound by cursed golden bands to perpetual servitude (6)
• Mount of choice for an orc raiding party (4)

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