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<blockquote data-quote="Ashy" data-source="post: 1293781" data-attributes="member: 312">Well, there were werewolves, but that was way back in the First Age....&nbsp; Of course, they were not called werewolves but Morgoth often took the shape of a giant, slavering wolf.&nbsp; Come to think of it, it seems like there were some mermaid like creatures around Numenor, but I will have to dig through the Silmarillion to find any specific references...However, back to the point, I think that Ackem is right, in Tolkien's mind, &quot;gnome&quot; was nearly synomyous with &quot;elf&quot;, as per the ancient mythologies of Britian and Europe, so to mention them by that name (the elves have enough names as it is) would be even more distracting and confusing.Also, just so that everyone knows, D&amp;D got the stereotypes of elves, dwarves and halflings from Tolkien, not the other way around.&nbsp; <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink&nbsp; &nbsp; ;)"&nbsp; data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" /></blockquote>

[QUOTE="Ashy, post: 1293781, member: 312"] Well, there were werewolves, but that was way back in the First Age.... Of course, they were not called werewolves but Morgoth often took the shape of a giant, slavering wolf. Come to think of it, it seems like there were some mermaid like creatures around Numenor, but I will have to dig through the Silmarillion to find any specific references... However, back to the point, I think that Ackem is right, in Tolkien's mind, "gnome" was nearly synomyous with "elf", as per the ancient mythologies of Britian and Europe, so to mention them by that name (the elves have enough names as it is) would be even more distracting and confusing. Also, just so that everyone knows, D&D got the stereotypes of elves, dwarves and halflings from Tolkien, not the other way around. ;) [/QUOTE]

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