"Long have the people of Middle-earth rued the power of the Enemy to twist that which is good to its own dark ends - but now and again the truest craftsmen among the Free People find a way to redeem some of the darkest works and materials of the Enemy, and bind them to true and good purpose again. So it is with the mythical Silk-hide armours, woven from strands of silk taken from the dark brood of Shelob and her ilk, wound with strips of hide into the leather itself to craft armour of surpassing strength and lightness. Would that all such workings of the enemy could come to such elegant ends."