I'm sorry, but someone who writes a line like this in defense of his effort deserved to incur the Estate's wrath.
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Tolkien refers to Quendi people as “elves,” a common term in his time, but considered highly offensive today. And while Tolkien was a great scholar of the Quenya and Sindarin languages, his command of Late Vulgar Adûni was rudimentary at best, and his translation of the Red Book suffers for it.
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I consider slights about Tolkien's verbiage to be "highly offensive".
Meh, it takes all kinds, I guess. I think it's rather a waste of time.