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In the Silmarillion it is recorded that Beor's people called the Elven-king Felagund Nóm, "Wisdom", and his people they called Nómin, "the Wise".
Okay Tolkien himself didn't publish this... but... well I think he was still going to have a version of 'gnome' one way or the other.
Take that Paracelsus!
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