S.T. Ockenner
Istar
He's inspired by the Norse, not Tolkien, so it does not really matter.The quote was about hobbits, but he said ears "slightly pointed and elvish". Meaning slightly pointed = elvish.
This was confirmed when The Lost Road and Other Writings was published in 1987. In the Etymologies under the first definition of ‘LAS’, which is the element in lasse meaning ‘leaf’, there is this note: “The Quendian ears were more pointed and leaf-shaped than [?human]” (p.368).