Eldar14, Tolkien himself chose Elves and Dwarves as the plurals of both races. The proofreaders wanted to replace those spellings with the traditional ones of elfs and dwarfs. He made that choice to set them apart, especially the Elves, from the children's fairy story elfs.
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'Mercy!' cried Gandalf. 'If the giving of information is to be the cure of your inquisitiveness, I shall spend all the rest of my days in answering you. What more do you want to know?' 'The whole history of Middle-earth.. .'
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