Can elves grow beards?

Elves cannot naturally grow a beard
Elves do not grow facial hair, according to the D&D 5th edition's Player's Handbook (p. 21): Elves have no facial and little body hair. Therefore, an elf cannot grow a beard even with this particular item.
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Can elves grow beards in LOTR?

Elves had no beards, at least until their "third cycle of life", like Círdan. Mahtan was an exception, and had a beard in his early "second cycle". The Elvish beardlessness could also be observed in Mannish lines with an Elvish strain (as in the princely house of Dol Amroth), which lacked beards.
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Can elves grow beards Warhammer?

All Elves are lithe and attractive, their faces thin and alert, with large eyes and full mouths. Their ears can be quite large and are often pointed. Few Elves can grow beards and hair colours are black through silver to pure white.
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Why do elves not have beards?

In fact all we really know is this: elves have three life cycles, and they only grow beards during the third cycle (except for Mahtan, who was described as being unusual since he began growing a beard sometime during his second cycle.)
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Can Half Elf grow beards?

Half-elf men do have facial hair, and sometimes grow beards to mask their elven ancestry.
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Do half elves have elven ears?

Half-elves'ears are about the size of human ears, but they are tapered, like the ears of their elven ancestors.
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Do drows have beards?

Drow generally kept their hair long, and decorated it with pins and webbing made of precious metals. They were incapable of growing proper beards, but some males managed to grow long sideburns or even tufts of wispy hair on the cheek or chin.
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Can hobbits grow beards?

Stoors were also the only kind of Hobbit that could grow facial hair. The Hobbits we have seen in the films have not a trace of facial hair, not even a mustache. But rest assured, there are a very small amount of Hobbits that can sprout themselves a beard.
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Do female dwarves have beards?

In The War of the Jewels, all Dwarves are described as having beards, including women. In later writings published in The Nature of Middle-earth, Tolkien did not discuss female Dwarves when listing the characters he imagined with or without beards, simply mentioning that all male Dwarves had beards.
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Are hobbits and elves related?

The prologue to the Fellowship of the Ring states that “it is plain indeed that in spite of later estrangement Hobbits are relatives of ours: far nearer to us than Elves or even than Dwarves.” If human-elf hybrids are possible, and dwarves and hobbits are taxonomically more closely related to humans than elves are, ...
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Are elves Tall or short?

The Elves were the fairest creatures in Arda, a far more beautiful race than Men, and generally tall (about six feet). Among them, those who had gone to Valinor were the fairest and had the greatest skill of body.
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Are black elves evil?

In The Elder Scrolls series of role-playing video games, Dark Elves (often referred to as Dunmer) generally live peacefully with other races and by and large their entire race is not considered evil like many other fantasy series.
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Is Grombrindal a Snorri?

Either Snorri never died and he is Grombrindal. Or Grombrindal isnt Snorri.
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Do elves get periods?

((EDIT: Although ti's very possible - even likely, that menstruation wasn't actually a monthly cycle. Elves rarely even counted in years (preferring centuries), let alone months.)) So, long story short, I'm pretty confident that elves do menstruate.
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How long is an elf pregnancy?

Elves' pregnancy lasts for two years. Most elf-maidens don't make it through 2 years thus less children. Twins are more common in Elves than in humans.
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Does Aragorn canonically have a beard?

Viggo Mortensen's turn as Aragorn virtually guaranteed that for some people, Aragorn absolutely has a beard. But he didn't. Tolkien confirmed this in the 1970s—in response to a fan letter that was written in Elvish.
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What is a female dwarf called?

No English word has grammatical gender. "Dwarf" can be used for a male or a female. 20.
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Is Gimli a female?

gimli is a male.
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Do female gnomes have beards?

More modern descriptions of gnomes usually emphasize their bright red pointed hats, solid colored clothes, and the long white beard of the typical male. Though sightings of female gnomes are rarely reported, gnome women are generally thought to be beard-free.
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Can elves get drunk?

Well, the Hobbit shows that Elves can certainly get themselves drunk. They can also be killed by poison, so presumably an Elf could theoretically drink themselves to death. However, they would be unlikely to suffer much from the long term physiological effects of drinking.
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Was Sauron a elf?

Prior to the publication of The Silmarillion, Sauron's origins and true identity were unclear to those without full access to Tolkien's notes. In early editions of The Guide to Middle Earth, Sauron is described as "probably of the Eldar elves".
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How tall is a dark elf?

They usually varied in height from four feet seven inches to five feet five inches and weighed from 80 to 155 pounds on average.
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How old can a elf live?

An elf reaches adulthood at about 110 years of age and can live to be more than 700 years old.
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How tall is Drizzt?

Description. Drizzt Do'Urden was a drow. He stood about 5 feet and 4 inches (1.6 meters) tall and weighed about 130 pounds (59 kilograms). His handsome features were sharp and well proportioned and, like other drow, Drizzt's skin was black and his stark white hair was long, thick, and flowing.
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