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Just for fun... Interview with one of Tolkien's Nameless Things Scottty: "Greetings, nameless tentacled creature who sleeps in the foundations of stone! Be nameless no more, I name you... Oscar!" Oscar: "Greetings, strange human. How did you get in here, and why have you disturbed my slumber?"...

Well... the Valar did not know about Ungoliant - but they're not the only Ainur, not by a long way. Like a lot of things, we don't have a definitive answer because Tolkien himself never quite made up his mind. But the explanation he seems to have been going with in his later drafts as that...

Or the Watcher did it itself.

"It is unlikely however that the Watcher was created by either Morgoth or Sauron. Evil creatures of Morgoth avoid water and fear it, while the Watcher dwells in it. Ulmo also had a much more active involvement in the affairs of the Middle Earth, and as far as is known none of his Maiar joined...