Another name for Ungweliante (S. Ungoliant) in the earliest Lost Tales (LT1/152), a combination of some form of the root ᴱ√GWIÐI having to do with weaving and lóme “gloom”, as suggested by Christopher Tolkien (LT1A/Gwerlum).
Early Quenya
ungwe
noun. spider
ungwe fuiva
feminine name. the Spider of Night
ungweliante
feminine name. Great Spider Who Enmeshes
wirilóme
feminine name. Gloomweaver
kangaris
noun. spider
maldor
noun. agony
Another name for Ungweliante (Ungoliant) doorkeeper in the Qenya Lexicon and Poetic and Mythological Words of Eldarissa from the 1910s (QL/103; PME/81, 104), a combination of ungwe “spider” and fuiva “murky”. In the Qenya Lexicon it also appeared in the variant form Ungwe Tuita (QL/80).