Or he might have meant the Eldar in Middle Earth maybe? Given that they are the ones that the readers of LOTR would need to know about and given the translator conceit, the ones that the scribes in Gondor (whose work IIRC the appendices were meant to be) was aware of,
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“But Finrod walks with Finarfin his father beneath the trees in Eldamar.”
Christopher Tolkien, Requiescat in pace
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