Petty-dwarves

The Petty-dwarves (named in Sindarin Noegyth Nibin or Nibin-Noeg, part of an older term, Bar-en-Nibin-noeg) were a diminutive race of Dwarves living in Beleriand during the First Age. They differed from most Dwarves: they were smaller, much more unsociable, and freely revealed their true names while other Dwarves kept their Khuzdûl names and language a secret.
==History ==
The Petty-dwarves were Dwarves of several houses, exiled for reasons untold in very ancient times during the Peace of Arda. They were the first to cross the Blue Mountains in the First Age, and established strongholds in Beleriand before the building of Nogrod and Belegost in the Blue Mountains, and before the Elves arrived. They delved the very ancient settlements of Narukuthûn (Nargothrond) and Amon Rûdh but they dwindled before the Ñoldor returned to Middle-earth.
The Sindar, not yet acquainted with Dwarves, first thought the Petty-dwarves were animals, and hunted them. Not until the Dwarves of the Blue Mountains established contact with the Sindar did the latter realize what the Petty-dwarves were. Afterwards they were mostly left alone, but not before the Petty-dwarves came to hate all Elves with a passion.
By the time of the War of the Great Jewels, after the Return of the Ñoldor, the Petty-dwarves had nearly died out. By the fifth century of the Sun of the First Age, the last remnant of their people were Mîm and his two sons, who lived at Amon Rûdh. Túrin and his men shot at the Petty-dwarves, mistaking them for animals or Orcs. Mîm survived, but an arrow had killed one of his sons, Khîm. Mîm's other son had been killed by Orcs, leaving Mîm the last of his kind. Mîm was killed by Húrin after the latter's release from Angband, and the Petty-dwarves were no more.The Silmarillion, Quenta Silmarillion, Chapter XXI: "Of Túrin Turambar"
==Development==
The Petty-dwarves were created from remnant ideas based on the Nauglath in Tolkien's earliest writings in the The Book of Lost Tales. They were more or less created to explain the difference between the Dwarves later writings such as The Hobbit in comparison to the wicked dwarves from his earlier stories which he hadn't yet completely abandoned. However, some of the ideas of the Nauglath were reincorporated into the Naugrim (Dwarves) by J.R.R. Tolkien or his son in the published Silmarillion and separate from the Petty-dwarves (such as the history of Belegost and Nogrod, and the Sack of Doriath events).
Niwennog was their first ascribed name (preceding the change to Nibin-noeg), as told of in the index of The War of the Jewels.
==Translations==
Foreign Language 	Translated name
Afrikaans 	Klein dwerge
Albanian 	I vogël Xhuxha të vegjël
Amharic 	ትናንሽ ኖዎች
Arabic 	الأقزام الصغيرة
Armenian 	Փոքր Թզուկները
Azerbaijani 	Kiçik cüceler
Belarusian Cyrillic	маленькія гномы
Bosnian 	Mali patulji
Bulgarian Cyrillic 	Малки Джуджета
Cambodian 	មនុស្សតឿតូចៗ
Catalan 	Petit nans
Croatian 	Sitni patuljci
Czech 	Drobní trpaslíci
Danish 	Smålig Dværge
Dutch 	Nietige Dwergen
Esperanto 	Malgranda nanoj
Estonian 	Väikesed päkapikud
Finnish 	Vähäkääpiöt
French 	Petits-Nains
Galician 	Ananos Pequena
Georgian 	მცირე ჯუჯები
German 	Kleinzwerge
Greek 	Μικρο-νάνοι
Hebrew 	גמדים זוטאים
Hindi 	छोटे बौने
Hungarian 	Pici-törpök
Icelandic 	Lítil Dvergar
Indonesian 	Kecil Kurcaci
Irish Gaelic 	Abhaic Beaga
Italian 	Nanerottoli
Japanese 	小ドワーフ
Kannada 	ಸಣ್ಣ ಕುಬ್ಜಗಳು
Korean 	작은 난쟁이
Latin 	Nani Parvus
Latvian 	Nelielu rūķis
Lithuanian 	Mažas Nykštukai
Luxembourgish 	Klengzwake
Macedonian Cyrillic	Мали Џуџињата
Maltese 	Nani żgħar
Mongolian Cyrillic 	Жижиг одой
Norwegian 	Smålig Dverger
Persian 	پتی‌دورف‌ها
Polish 	Krasnoludy Poślednie
Portuguese 	Anões Pequenos
Punjabi 	ਛੋਟੇ ਡੌਵਰਜ਼
Romanian 	Mici Piticii
Russian 	Малые гномы
Scottish Gaelic 	Troichean Beaga
Serbian 	Ситни Патуљци (Cyrillic) Sitni Patuljci (Latin)
Slovak 	Malí trpaslíci
Slovenian 	Majhni škrati
Spanish 	Enanos Mezquinos
Tajik Cyrillic 	Котибот майда
Tamil 	சிறிய குள்ளர்கள்
Telugu 	చిన్న మరుగుజ్జులు
Thai 	คนแคระขนาดเล็ก
Turkish 	Ufak-cüceler
Ukrainian Cyrillic 	Малі гноми
Urdu 	چھوٹے گنوماس
Vietnamese 	Nhỏ người lùn ?
Welsh 	Corrachod Bach
Yiddish 	קליין דוואַרפס
==References==
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Category:Dwarves
Category:Petty-Dwarves
Category:Wicked dwarves