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the passage you cite was actually revised out of a later version of the essay and changed to "...seldom is any tale told of deeds of lust among them."
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Yes it was. But the "seldom..." statement of manuscript B directly interferes only with this part of manuscript A-> "there is no record of any among the Elves that took another's spouse by force".
Manuscript B ignores the most pertinent part of the manuscript A quote-> "one so forced would have rejected bodily life and passed to Mandos". Nothing in B goes against this statement.