Since the bodies of Elves are, after all, bodies, I assume that they decay after death just as a Human body would. Even so, the bodies in the Dead Marshes are different, because their fëar, or spirits, have been trapped there by Sauron (I think).
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But Melkor also was there, and he came to the house of Fëanor, and there he slew Finwë King of the Noldor before his doors, and spilled the first blood in the Blessed Realm; for Finwë alone had not fled from the horror of the Dark.
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