Correct! Well done, Huinesoron.
'In transit' was because the letters of ALDI had to go into transit, as well as the letters of MRIS needing to be scattered.
C
RICKHOLLOW: Tess’s kindest boss. Empty location?
TOL
ERESSEA: He turns back (as did his wife, with dire consequences), before Saruman initially meets the ocean here.
BAM
FURLONG: See the fairies’ midwife dance backwards – a measure of the place!
LA
URELINDORENAN: Tree meets flatbread of South Yorkshire village here.
THE PRANCIN
G PONY: Stable, but not impenetrable, one might say of a part of this establishment.
ITHILI
EN: A blow is dealt to the lazy morning in confusion here.
IMLADRI
S: Scans scattered around amongst a shop in transit here.
Password: REFUGES
Specific theme: places where the Ringbearer took/was offered refuge.
Crickhollow was the one I wasn't quite sure qualified as a refuge, as Frodo had bought it rather than been offered sanctuary there. (He did take refuge there, though - from the road. His quest had begun and he had already (unknowingly) seen or sensed a Nazgul or two).
I think the idea of making it just the Ringbearer's places of refuge might have come from that piece of literary criticism that said that Frodo needed digging out of about 6 Homely Houses before he even got to Elrond's.
Well done everyone, and over to Huinesoron.