I see the difficulty, but I still have two points.
1) I found it jarring the way the name of the necklace is introduced in our text. Can we at least say
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.. and he cast the {Nauglafrin}[Nauglamír, the Necklace of the Dwarves] around his throat ..
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This, for me, keeps the title and makes it more introductory. It's introduced this way in Lost Tales, with its translation.
2) For me the text as it stands is odd: the Dwarves present the Nauglamir as if it was a surprise, but it was essentially the driving force of Thingol's contract with them, and was there watching them make it. Why then do they have to explain that they kept a part of gold in order to make a necklace. I suppose they could simply be being ceremonial, but it seems odd to me. Perhaps I am simply reading into it too much.