Do half-elves grow facial hair?

Half-elf men do have facial hair, and sometimes grow beards to mask their elven ancestry. The fact that Elves cannot grow beards is specifically mentioned and is a known fact about the species - Half-Elves sometimes do it deliberately so that they look less like elves!
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Can half-elf grow beard?

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

Male half-elves can grow facial hair, unlike male elves, and often sport thin mustaches, goatees, or short beards. 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 elves ever have beards?

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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Do elves grow body hair?

No Canon, more stories, more Realms. My own 'fix' for all of this is that NO, Elves don't have facial hair (and other body hair, even less likely). However, over the course of untold milenia, Elves have interbred with humans (and others), and therefor it is a recessive gene and some can.
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Why Some Men Can't Grow Beards



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 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 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 are elves pregnant?

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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Do elves only fall in love once?

Elves marry only once (with only one known, very special, exception), but there's no rule about them loving only once. For example, Finwe loved Miriel, and then he loved Indis.
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How tall is a half-elf?

Size: Half-Elves are about the same size as Humans, ranging from 5 to 6 feet tall. Your size is Medium. Speed: Your base walking speed is 30 feet.
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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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How old do half-elves live?

Half-Elves have curiosity and ambitions like humans but they have sense for magic and love for nature like their elven parents. Their skin is paler than human skin and they are taller and bigger than elves. Half-Elves have long ears like elves. They live about 180 years.
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Can a Wood elf 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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Does Bosmer have facial hair?

Well Altmer and Bosmer don't normally sport much facial hair, if any at all is present. But Dunmer seem to have beards and I see them with them often.
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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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Are half-elves sterile?

For elves and humans to be different species they must not produce fertile offspring. We know that half-elves are quite common but they can be interperated as hybrids, similar to mules or ligers, which are infertile.
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What do you call a baby elf?

changeling , also called elf child. In European folk tradition, a deformed or weak-witted offspring of fairies or elves substituted by them surreptitiously for a comely human child. changeling.
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How old can elves get?

Age: Although elves reach physical maturity at about the same age as Humans, the elven understanding of Adulthood goes beyond physical growth to encompass worldly experience. An elf typically claims Adulthood and an adult name around the age of 100 and can live to be 750 years old.
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Do elves get in heat?

Despite this lifespan, elven women only go into heat once in their lifetimes for around 10 years, during which their biology all but forces them to focus solely on procreating.
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Can a elf on the shelf have a baby?

To answer the burning question, no, Elf on the Shelf can't have babies.
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Do elves age slowly?

Elves: Similar to dwarves, elves age more slowly than men in their youth, and then once they reach maturity they stop aging. The rate for elves is much slower even than dwarves. Tolkien says that a 20 year old elf appears to be 7 years old.
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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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Can Orcs grow beards?

Dwarfs always have long, full beards, including the women. Gnomes often, but not always, have some sort of facial hair - usually a thick, heavy Sam Elliott-style mustache or a long goatee. Half-orcs can't grow proper beards, but they likely have an unkempt patch of scruff on their cheeks and chin.
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