in subsequent writing the story of the fighting between urin 's band and tinwelint 's elves disappeared , and there is no trace afterwards of ufedhin or the other gnomes that lived among the dwarves , of the story that the dwarves took half the unwrought gold ( 'the king 's loan ' ) away to nogrod to make precious objects from it , of the keeping of ufedhin hostage , of tinwelint 's refusal to let the dwarves depart , of their outrageous demands , of their scourging and their insulting payment .