I wouldn't say they were 'above' names [img]smilies/wink.gif[/img] Yes they are englished: 'gods' but as Tolkien says that is not entirely accurate they were more accurately: 'angelic beings'
Indeed it does seem they had names in their own language from which Quenya forms were extracted. This according to the Linguistic essay 'Quendi and Eldar' published in The War of the Jewels
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