The Petty-dwarves (named in Sindarin Noegyth Nibin or Nibin-Noeg, part of an older and longer word Bar-en-Nibin-noeg) were a diminutive race of dwarves that lived in the Beleriand in Middle-earth during the First Age. They differed from normal dwarves in various ways: they were smaller, far more unsociable, and they freely gave away their names; other dwarves kept their Khuzdul names and language a secret.