What color eyes do elves have?

[edit] Eye colour
When Tolkien describes Elven eyes, they tend to be grey. This is certainly true of Lúthien and her descendants, including Elrond and his children (Arwen, Elladan and Elrohir) as well as Aragorn and the Dúnedain. Voronwë, who guided the man Tuor to Gondolin, also had grey eyes.
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What kind of eyes do elves have?

In the movies they all have blue eyes but in the books they are suppose to have grey/silver eyes!
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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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Why do elves have green eyes?

It's been so well established that the green eyes developed as a result of exposure to fel magic some time after the sunwell was destroyed. Within the lore itself Elves had green eyes previous to this. The only reason High Elves all have Blue Eyes is to make them visually distinct from Blood Elves.
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Do elves have green eyes?

So going by that logic, brown or green eyes are not possible in elves because none of them have that brown allele to pass on. They only have the recessive blue alleles.
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15 Different Types Of Elves Explained



Can high elves have red eyes?

High Elves normally have fair skin, tanned or light but never overly so. Their eyes are normally a dark green, blue, or golden. However it has been seen of High Elves with red eyes, which are normally the ones dabbling in Dark or Blood Magic.
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What are amber eyes?

Amber eyes are a solid yellowish, golden or copper color and do not contain brown, green, or orange flecks. If you have amber-colored eyes, it's likely that you're of Spanish, Asian, South American or South African descent.
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What color eyes do half-elves have?

Physical Characteristics

While half-elves retain the pointed ears of elves, theirs are more rounded and less pronounced. Their eyes tend to be human-like in shape, but feature an exotic range of colors from amber or violet to emerald green and deep blue.
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Do I have blue or grey eyes?

Gray eyes are often mistaken for blue eyes

According to the Eye Doctors of Washington website, gray eyes, unlike blue eyes, often have flecks of gold and brown in them.
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Why does Sophie have brown eyes?

Sophie is currently the only elf known with natural brown eyes. It can be noted that this is because of her DNA that is modeled after an alicorn's, who naturally have brown eyes, rather than the theory Elwin had about it being due to toxins.
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What color are Sophie's eyes?

Sophie's eyes are brown but elves don't normally have brown eyes.
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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 hair do high elves have?

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.
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What color is an elf?

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 race are elves?

There are numerous different subraces and subcultures of elves, including aquatic elves, dark elves (drow), deep elves (rockseer), grey elves, high elves, moon elves, snow elves, sun elves, valley elves, wild elves (grugach), wood elves and winged elves (avariel).
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Do elves feel cold?

Elves do seem to have more resistance to cold– c.f. Legolas wearing only “light shoes” on Caradhras; I believe that's what started the “fanon” idea that they don't feel cold at all, under any circumstances– which is certainly not the case, as you've just demonstrated.
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What is rarest eye color?

Of those four, green is the rarest. It shows up in about 9% of Americans but only 2% of the world's population. Hazel/amber is the next rarest of these. Blue is the second most common and brown tops the list with 45% of the U.S. population and possibly almost 80% worldwide.
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What is the prettiest eye color?

While hazel was found to be the most attractive eye color in females. When it came to the most attractive eye color in females, the results were very different. Hazel eyes topped the list as the most popular, with 65 out of 322 total matches—or 20.19 percent.
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Do all Asians have brown eyes?

Between 55 and 79 percent of people worldwide have brown eyes. Brown is the most common eye color. Dark brown eyes are most common in Africa, East Asia, and Southeast Asia. Light brown eyes are found in West Asia, the Americas, and Europe.
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How old is an elf in human years?

An elf typically claims adulthood and an adult name around the age of 100 and can live to be 750 years old. What this says to me is that if you want an elf that looks like a 20 year old human and acts like a 20 year old human, you play a 20 year old elf.
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What Colour skin do elves have?

All elves are described as having fair/white skin.
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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.
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Are hazel eyes rarer than blue?

Hazel eyes are sometimes mistaken for green or brown eyes. They are not as rare as green eyes, but are rarer than blue eyes. Only about 5 percent of the population worldwide has the hazel eye genetic mutation.
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Are gold eyes real?

Amber or golden eyes can often be found in animals, such as cats, owls, and especially wolves, but a human containing this pigment is extremely rare. Only about 5 percent of the world's population can say they have true amber-colored eyes.
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Do yellow eyes exist?

True amber eyes are extremely rare—they are at least as rare as green eyes or perhaps even rarer. Most people have only seen a couple of amber-eyed people in their entire life. Amber eyes are completely solid and have a strong yellowish, golden, or russet and coppery tint.
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