yet dairon fled from the apparition of beren in the forest because 'all the elves of the woodland thought of the gnomes of dor lomin as treacherous creatures , cruel and faithless ' ( p. z x ) ; and 'dread and suspicion was between the eldar and those of their kindred that had tasted the slavery of melko , and in this did the evil deeds of the gnomes at the haven of the swans revenge itself ' ( p. x x ) .