1.
E In it you might sail a kayak, almost, overturned after the beginning of the end.
2.
NUMENOR: No number, no note, just a messed up kingdom.
3.
CARAS GALADHON: In a forest, cars glad with a one and a one and an endless honk.
4.
ISENGARD: Read, sign, move around, tower over the valley.
5.
REMNANT OF HITHLUM: Remainder of the northmen? In the fen.
6.
CRISSAEGRIM: See hear, rise as grim as the shaken mountains.
7.
LAVA: In the heart of the dark land, all you need is love! No, not love: l ---.
8.
RAMMAS ECHOR: Short mass arm chore in a muddle. Take the second half of the wall.
9.
DOR FIRN-I-GUINAR [Tol Galen]: Green land, after the resurrection.
Yes and yes and yes! I ended up including both encircled and encircling things in order to get good letters. And that is why I was not happy to learn that Dor FiG is not synonymous with Tol Galen, an island "encircled" by the river. So I again apologize for that clue being included on incorrect assumptions.
The 5th clue is a bit randomly textual, but look:
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Then all the hosts of Angband swarmed against them, and they bridged the stream with their dead, and encircled the remnant of Hithlum as a gathering tide about a rock.
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One more to go!