What Colour skin do elves have?

All elves are described as having fair/white skin.
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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.
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Do elves have to be 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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Can an elf be 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.
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What skin color do half-elves have?

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.
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15 Different Types Of Elves Explained



Can elves be tan?

They are generally dark-haired and green-eyed, with very pale complexions the color of new cream. They simply do not tan, no matter how much time they spend under Oerth's sun. High elves prefer to wear light pastels, blues and greens and violets, and often dwell in homes built into living wood, high in the trees.
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Are all elves fair skinned?

All elves are described as having fair/white skin.
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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.
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Can high elves have dark skin?

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.
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Do elves have race?

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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Why are elves always skinny?

From a genetic heritage standpoint, the Elves evolved in Underhill, which is an ideal garden-like environment, free from both harsh winters and famine-inducing dry months. As a result, their bodies never developed the ability to store calories for times when food was scarce.
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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.
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What color is olive skin?

Olive skin is a human skin colour spectrum. It is often associated with pigmentation in the Type III to Type IV and Type V ranges of the Fitzpatrick scale. It generally refers to light or moderate tan skin, and it is often described as having yellow, green, or golden undertones.
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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.
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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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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.
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What color are Santa's elves?

Christmas elves are usually depicted as green- or red-clad, with large, pointy ears and wearing pointy hats. They are most often depicted as humanoids, but sometimes as furry mammals with tails. Santa's elves are often said to make the toys in Santa's workshop and take care of his reindeer, among other tasks.
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Why do dark elves have dark skin?

Issue: Dark elves are often described as a race that "is blessed by the Moon/Dark power," and often is associated with living in the dark as well. But dark skin color means that they adapted to live under the sun!
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Do elves have freckles?

Their colouration varies far less than humans', with most elves being quite pale and fair skinned, though almost none possess freckles, or blemishes. Elves tend to have bright green or dark blue, ranging to nearly black, eyes.
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Are elves beautiful?

Elves tend to all be beautiful, but widely representative of all Human 'fads' at once. The face may be round and soft or hard and imperious, but both behold the Elvish beauty. The eyes may be blue or they may be brown, but both are bright with Elvish joy.
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Are elves blue?

Elves, sprites and blue jets of storms. (Image credit: Danish National Space Center.) Like sprites, elves are reddish, ultra-fast bursts of electricity bright enough to see during the daytime high in the Earth's atmosphere.
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Can elves have tails?

The special branch of elves called huldras also have a tail (either fox or cow) or are hairy from that waist and down. It is said that the ones with cow tails can become human if you cut the tail off, and there are stories about them only wanting to marry a human so they can become human themselves.
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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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