Tolkien Spotting (Aaronovitch)

So, I've just started reading the latest in Ben Aaronovitch's THE RIVERS OF LONDON books, and was amused to find a Tolkien reference in the first chapter. The main character is speaking, giving his opinion about various prominent London buildings:

"Now, I have . . . views about architecture. But there's modern stuff I like. The Gherkin, the Lloyd's building, even the Shard -- despite the nagging feeling I get that Nazgul should be roosting at the top"
This is pretty straightforward and unambiguous; another good example of Tolkien's ubiquity in our culture.

Oddly enough, I'd come across another possible but much less certain example earlier the same day. In a Talking Points Memo post about Trump aid Mike Flynn, TPM founder Josh Marshall wrote


"Flynn already appears to be in the process of getting wraithed"*
This struck me as an odd usage, not just Tolkienesque but positively Shippeyian. I'm curious: has anyone else come across this word lately so applied (i.e. as Tolkien used it)?
--John R.just finished: OTHER MINDS: THE OCTOPUS THE SEA, AND THE DEEP ORIGINS OF CONSCIOUSNESS by Peter Godfrey-Smith (?2016).
*http://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/d...


UPDATE: Thanks to the comment by Clive Shergold I've corrected the author's name, which I'd gotten wrong in the initial post.  Thanks Clive.
--John R., 2/2-17.