CHAPTERS: 1. - From Beowulf to the Balrogs: The Roots of Fantastic Horror in The Lord of the Rings. 2. - Fear and Horror: Monsters in Tolkien and Beowulf. 3. - Of Spiders and (the Medieval Aesthetics of) Light: Hope and Action in the Horrors of Shelob's Lair. 4. - Shelob's and her Kin: The Evolution of Tolkien's Spiders. 5. - The Shadow beyond the Firelight: Pre-Christian Archetypes and Imagery Meet Christian Theology in Tolkien's Treatment of Evil and Horror . 6. - The Cry in the Wind and the Shadow on the Moon: Liminality and the Construct of Horror in The Lord of the Rings. 7. - Barrows, Wights, and Ordinary People: The Unquiet Dead in J. R. R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings . 8. - Horror and Anguish: The Slaying of Glaurung and Medieval Dragon Lore. 9. - Shadow and Flame: Myth, Monsters and Mother Nature in Middle-earth. 10. - Evil Reputations: Images of Wolves in Tolkien's Fiction.