How many colors of elves are there?

Based on the descriptions Tolkien actually gave us in the books, there are four possible hair colors for elves: dark brown, blonde/golden, red/russet, and silver.
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What color do elves have?

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.
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What do the colors of elves mean?

Red/black themed clothings denote those who specialize in “heat” magic/attributes. Those in gold/white specialize in “light” magic/attributes. For the Moonshadow elves, the teal/black ones could deal more with illusion magic and those with purple/black would be more about life/death/spirits magic.
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What Colour are elves in Lord of the Rings?

All elves are described as having fair/white skin.
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Is there a black elf in LOTR?

Lord Of The Rings: The Rings Of Power is set to take the franchise in a diverse new direction, featuring the first ever black elf in Middle Earth's history.
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What type 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.
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What Colours do elves wear?

Christmas elves are usually depicted as green- or red-clad, with large, pointy ears and wearing pointy hats.
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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.
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What color are wood elves?

Description. Wood elves are easily identifiable by their coppery skin and green, brown, or hazel eyes. Wood elven hair is usually black or brown, although hues such as blond or copper red have also been observed.
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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.
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Can elves have black hair?

[edit] Hair colour

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.
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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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What is a sun elf?

The Sun Elf is a subrace of Eladrin in Forgotten Realms, and introduced as a subrace in the Neverwinter Campaign Setting. [ NCS :49] They are also known as gold elves. Sun elves are notorious as the most reclusive, conservative and elitist of the elven breeds.
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Do all elves have blue eyes?

All elves, with the exception of Sophie, have eyes that are different shades of blue. The main characters' eyes from left to right: Sophie, Keefe, Fitz, Tam, Linh, Biana, Dex, and Wylie. These shades have a lot of variation, from silvery blue to greenish blue to purplish blue, and more.
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What colors are elf eyes?

Elven eyes are commonly brown, hazel, or an emerald green. Elves, like their cousins the eladrin, were fair and beautiful, handsome, and had pointed ears and no body hair except eyebrows, eyelashes, and hair.
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What is the black elf?

Dark elf may refer to: Dökkálfar or dark elves, a type of elf in Norse mythology. Svartálfar or black elves, a type of elf in Norse mythology. Moriquendi, a fictional race of elves in J. R. R. Tolkien's legendarium. Drow, or dark elves, a fictional subrace of elves in Dungeons & Dragons.
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Are elves real?

From a scientific viewpoint, elves are not considered objectively real. However, elves have in many times and places been believed to be real beings.
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How many types of elves are there in Middle-earth?

In Tolkien's universe, the elves are the first to walk in Middle-earth. They are divided into two types: Eldar and Avari. This corresponds to the descriptions in Norse mythology of the two worlds Alfheim and Svartalfheim – the realms of the light elves and the dark elves. Yet there is a difference.
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How many elves does Santa have 2021?

The number of elves that work for Santa continues to go up each year. In 2020, the number of elves jumped to over 110,000. The number is expected to jump to 200,000 by Christmas 2021 (nearly doubling its previous population). The number of elves in 2018 was 90,000.
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What do elves drink?

Just like you, elves cannot survive on food alone! When it comes time to wash down a meal, elves drink a lot of the same beverages as you: a cold glass of milk with their chocolate chip cookies, freshly squeezed orange juice or even North Pole snow melted to make a glass of water.
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How can I be like elf?

Choose clothing and accessories according to the type of elf you are.
  1. Woodland elves. Wear tan and green. ...
  2. Dark elves. Wear dark colors like red, purple, and obviously black. ...
  3. Normal elves. Don't wear too bright colors like hot pink, bright yellow, things like that. ...
  4. High elves.
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What kind of Elf is Tauriel?

The character Tauriel is a Silvan Elf, which means she is of a much lower order than the elves that had previously been seen in The Lord of the Rings film series, and holds a lower social status than characters like Arwen, Galadriel, Elrond, and Legolas.
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Can half elves reproduce?

Half-elves may mate and breed, but will always produce the offspring of the other parent (a Half-elf/elf pairing will produce elven children, while a Half elf/human pairing will result in human children).
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