I realize that some do not consider the Book of Lost Tales as authoritative canon, but in BoLt II in
The Fall of Gondolin Tolkien writes:
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'Tis written in those days the fathers of the fathers of Men were of less stature than Men now are, and the children of Elfinesse of greater growth, yet was Tuor taller than any that stood there. Indeed the Gondothlim were not bent of back as some of their unhappy kin became,labouring without rest at delving and hammering for Melko, but small were they and slender and very lithe.
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So, apparently there were
short elves.