re: Who is the greatest fictional spider (spoilers

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Is it worthwhile to read the Silmarillion if I haven't read LOTR?
I love LOTR and read have read it multiple times. Silmarillion is boring AF.

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It all depends on your perspective and intent. Someone above said it was like a history book.
Basically, it's Tolkien's life's work, and a masterpiece of imagination. He created a mythology that basically merges Judao-Christian beliefs with Norse or Greek mythology. The scope is tremendous, and as such the individual stories are small and dry; much like elements of the Bible or other old myths are dry. God cast Lucifer down, Michael defeated him and cast him into Hell. Go read that sometime, I think it might take a page or maybe two. Similarly, not much fleshing out of the Olympians taking down the Titans.
But those are fertile grounds for development; and you arguably get more of that in Tolkien.

Honestly, I would guess there are at least 5, maybe a good bit more, stories that would be WAY more epic than LOTR, if they were detailed.

To answer the OP: Ungoliant in a landslide. She is literally the darkness that consumes all.