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Even the modern form 'swarthy' is so dated as to be virtually obsolete. Tolkien would have taken it straight from Middle English; that is, he wouldn't have needed recent use to justify his own use.
In Old Norse, the dark elves are called svart-alfar. He might have meant precisely this.
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