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The prisoners were brought before (the Elvenking) : and though he looked grimly at them, he told his men to unbind them, for they were ragged and weary.
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Barrels Out of Bond
That's the only instance of what you refer to that I could quickly find, though there may be others. In this quote, the reference to 'men' is not capitalized, as is usual when Tolkien is speaking of Men as a race. That leads me to believe that here it is simply a different word for 'folk' or 'people', and not an error.