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of Elves to Elfs & Dwarves to Dwarfs. But Tolkien did this intentionally. Dwarfs & Elfs were the "correct" words at the time, but they were associated with "Silly tales" as Tolkien put it.
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Depends whose old tales you read. Elves & Dwarves were also correct and older. See hoof > hooves. And borders elves (Scotland / England) in Thomas the Rhymer are like the Irish Sidhe (Scots sith or sėde) and those are much like Tolkien's Elves. He really only invented the Hobbits. The publisher's proof reader must have been uneducated.
Fairies (elves) being small & winged started in England with Shakespeare and peaked in Victoria Era and Early 20th C. The older stories are quite different.