#8: a wet place could be a FEN, and a limb could be a leg, twisted backwards to make FENGEL.
#7: if 'a blogger with a couple of differences' is a straight clue, it could point to a chronicler, of which Tolkien has a few. Avarice suggests GREED, which almost appears in 'Pengolodh'... but not really close enough, and you're left with 'pnloh' for an army.
Could that latter be HOST? Greed Host is an anagram of, uh... Ghost Deer, that famed writer of the... Nandor? ^_^; Maybe not.
And obviously #4 is Cidertheclambread. ^_^
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