Possible Clues:

• Monstrous
• Beastly
• Monstrously cruel
• Monstrous error when defending dissolute heirs
• Terrifyingly big, but his gore was shed
• GI's hero makes like a man-eater
• Go up to the shire is a horrible way
• This is monstrous - therefore reversing is hard
• Like a cruel monster
• Hideous, sprawled in his gore