Can half-elves be black?

Elves tend to have a fairly narrow range of skin tones, and the Thalassians are pale. San'layn, in true vampire fashion, are somehow even more pale than their already pale base race, so that's also a no. I suppose a half-elf could have whatever skin tone their human parent might have, but there are no examples of that.

Can half-elves have dark skin?

Such elves are almost unfailingly marked with the white or silver hair of the drow parent, and more often than not have dusky gray skin that takes on a purplish or bluish tinge in the right light, while their eye color usually favors that of the human parent.

What skin color can half-elves have?

Half-elves are paler, fairer, and smoother-skinned than their human parents, but their actual skin tone, hair color, and other details vary just as human features do. Half-elves' eyes are green, just as are those of their elf parents.

Can high elves be black?

Most high elves were fair-skinned, though sun elven skin was a hue darker than that of the star elves or moon elves. Dark elven skin, in contrast, was dark brown. Most high elves had black hair, with silvery hues common among moon elves and star elves while blond or copper hues were more common among the sun elves.

Can DND elves be black?

Dark elves, known as Drow, have skin that “resembles charcoal” and are associated with the evil spider queen Lolth. As both a ruleset and a fantasy backdrop, D&D is in the business of translating these racial differences into numerical scores: Dwarves get extra points when they try to hit something with a battleaxe.

Half-elves, and how they could be entertainingly different

Are all elves white?

Tolkien never describes his Elves as white skinned. There's no reason to believe that all Elves had pale skin, and even if all Elves had pale skin not all people with pale skin are white. It is okay to imagine Elves however you imagine them.

Are dark elves black?

In the Dungeons & Dragons multiverse, especially in the worlds of Greyhawk, the Forgotten Realms and Eberron, dark elves are commonly called drow. They are dark-skinned and white-haired and are generally, but not exclusively, evil.

Can elves have black hair?

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Other Elves - including the Noldor, Sindar, and Avari - had dark brown or black hair like Finwë or Maeglin. Lúthien Tinúviel and her remote descendant Arwen Undómiel, both described as the fairest of all Elves, were dark haired.

Are wood elves black?

Wood elves were easily identifiable by their coppery skin and green, brown, or hazel eyes. Wood elven hair was usually black or brown, although hues such as blond or copper red were also found.

Are there black Hobbits?

No. There is no indication of black hobbits in the Tolkien Legendarium.

Can elves be different colors?

They typically have fair skin and hair that runs in hues from silver-white to black or blue. While human style hair colors are rare, eye color can be remarkably similar, with colors ranging from blue to green. The majority of the half-elves in Faerûn come from parings between humans and moon elves.

What do half drow look like?

A half-drow generally had dusky skin, silver or white hair, and human eye colors. They could see around 60 feet (18 m) with darkvision, but otherwise had no other known drow traits or abilities.

What skin colors do elves have?

All elves are described as having fair/white skin.

Can elves have green skin?

Green-Elves are a race of elves that reside mainly within the island of Summer of Priest. They are mysterious to most, and serve as healers across the whole of Amsnorth. They differ greatly from their fellow elves, and a more like humans in appearance but instead with green skin.

What kind of elf is Legolas?

Legolas is a Sindarin Elf from the Woodland Realm of Northern Mirkwood. His father, Thranduil, is the King of the Silvan Elves living in that realm, making Legolas the Prince of Mirkwood.

What race are wood elves?

Wood elf is a generic term for an elf that live in wooded areas such as forests. Wood Elf may refer to: Silvan Elves, a fictional race in J.R.R. Tolkien's Middle-earth of northern Mirkwood and Lothlórien.

What is a moon elf?

Moon elves, also known as Teu-tel-quessir in the elven language or as silver elves, were the most common of all the elven subraces. More tolerant of humans than other elves, moon elves were the ancestors of most half-elves. They were considered high elves sometimes also called eladrin.

What color are dark elves hair?

Dark elves had dark brown skin, as opposed to the the ebony skin that drow had, and pale hair. It was believed that some of them may have had black hair instead of white, and no darkvision.

Can high elves have dark hair?

Tolkein's Noldor had dark hair, except the house of Finarfin, who were blonde. As Tolkien is the basis of the western fantasy genre since he wrote LOTR, I think you'll be ok.

What color is Thranduil's hair?

Thranduil also has blonde hair, but since his father is Sindarin (and none of the Vanyar returned to Middle Earth with the Noldor) it's very very unlikely that he has any Vanyarin blood, so exceptions must be possible.

What is a dark elf called?

Drow, or dark elves, a fictional subrace of elves in Dungeons & Dragons.

What race are elves?

Elves, much like their living ancestors, the eladrin, who were also commonly called elves, were a long-lived race of the Tel-quessir found most commonly in forests, shrublands, and other wildernesses.

Can elves be brown?

Wendy Pini's Elfquest elves are a great example of this (and one of the rare cases of brown elves — some of them settled in a desert or on plains, and developed darker skin), but they'd throw a monkey wrench into the whole thing since some of them turned into magic eugenicists.