Gnomes

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As we all know, the Noldor started out in the mythos as Gnomes. Eventually, I suppose, Tolkien begain to dislike the connotations of this word, so he changed it to Noldor. But even so, he seems to have written in a story to keep the word Gnome alive.

Thus it was that Men called King Felagund, whom they first met of all the Eldar, Nóm, that is Wisdom, in the language of that people, and after they named his folk Nómin, the Wise.