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TL;DR penny-anna is wrong, man/men refers to males, not the race
Tolkien capitalise the m when speaking of the race Men. "Man" refers to the race of full sized humans and "man" refers to a male.
Chapter Treebeard:
Man is capitalised as they speak about the race of men
Chapter Shelob's lair:
Again, they speak of the race
Chapter The Battle of Pelennor Fields (Witch-King speaks of his prophecy):
Man is not capitalised as the prophecy was about males, not the race of men, which is a category Éowyn would have fallen into.
As summarised in the 50th anniversary edition :