While I’ll admit that “wolves” instead of “elves” seems to make more sense, I think that assuming there were 2 typos in a single sentence, both of them going from mundane to fantasy, is just too hard to believe without actual evidence instead of just someone’s whim.
If you think of them as errors made while copying letter by letter from a clean source, sure. But if it’s a scribe copying sentence by sentence from scribbled notes taken during the sermon (say), the first error would make the scribe more likely to misread the second word as well.
While I’ll admit that “wolves” instead of “elves” seems to make more sense, I think that assuming there were 2 typos in a single sentence, both of them going from mundane to fantasy, is just too hard to believe without actual evidence instead of just someone’s whim.
If you think of them as errors made while copying letter by letter from a clean source, sure. But if it’s a scribe copying sentence by sentence from scribbled notes taken during the sermon (say), the first error would make the scribe more likely to misread the second word as well.