In response to my post on editorial changes, Iain Murray (whose Edge of England’s Sword blog has just gotten active again) writes:
[W]hen JRR Tolkien got the edited manuscript of The Hobbit back from his publishers he was outraged to see all references to “Elvish” changed to “Elfin” and all instances of “Dwarfs” corrected to “Dwarves”, among many others.
Yup, the Elves were certainly not elfin.
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