Tolkien's exploration of the medieval 'Loathly Lady' motif through Galadriel, Shelob and Arwen through his geometry, and his implementation of 'The Dance of the Seven Veils'- which I believe finds some if its inspiration in Haggard's 'She'.
To date I've made 29 predictions specifically surrounding this theme. Here's one of them.
Prediction #71
That Tolkien would refer to Shelob as ‘loathly’ or 'loathsome’.
Searching, I found...
“Hardly had Sam hidden the light of the star-glass when she came. A little way ahead and to his left he saw suddenly, issuing from a black hole of shadow under the cliff, the most loathly shape that he had ever beheld, horrible beyond the horror of an evil dream. Most like a spider she was, but huger than the great hunting beasts, and more terrible than they because of the evil purpose in her remorseless eyes.” [TLotR, Book IV, Chapter 9 Shelob’s Lair]
As you can see Tolkien went all the way and actually used the word ‘loathly’.
Here's a link to the article on my website.
http://www.thewindrose.net/blogs/the...ate-drawing-2/
For those not familiar with the 'Loathly Lady', there's a link in the article.
monks
...according to the forum.. apparently I'm "Newly Deceased"...:-D