What is the skin color of elves?

All elves are described as having fair/white skin.
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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 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.
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What are elves supposed to look like?

Like fairies, elves were said to be diminutive shape-shifters. (Shakespeare's elves were tiny, winged creatures that lived in, and playfully flitted around, flowers.) English male elves were described as looking like little old men, though elf maidens were invariably young and beautiful.
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Do dark elves have dark skin?

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.
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Can dark elves be white?

Dark Elves are characterized by white or silver hair and obsidian black and gray skin.
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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.
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Are elves fair skinned?

All elves are described as having fair/white skin.
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Are elves real yes or no?

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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Can elves get fat?

Elves and human share many similarities, from body type to the ability to perform magic. However, elves retain a slim, lean build throughout their life, and are incapable of becoming obese.
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What color are elves eyes?

[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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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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What are elves allergic to?

Weaknesses. Iron: Elves are highly allergic to Iron in the same capacity Werewolves are allergic to silver. Iron is a very grounded element and has very magical properties meaning it soaks up magic like a sponge and in turn weakens elves.
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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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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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Is Santa real in 2021?

So, is Santa Claus real? Santa Claus is real, of course. The New York Sun even reported it back in 1897! But the current Santa Claus isn't from the North Pole.
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What is Santa's phone number?

The Santa Claus phone number for 2021 is 605-313-4000 in the United States. He loves to hear from good little girls and boys, and his line is open 24 hours a day, seven days a week until Christmas.
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Is Santa Claus real?

He is based on St. Nicholas of Myra, who, according to Christian tradition, was a bishop in that small Roman town during the 4th century. Nicholas's reputation for generosity and kindness gave rise to legends of miracles he performed for the poor and unhappy.
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Who invented dark elves?

Written by Jonathan G. Nelson and Stephen Yeardley, developed by Thomas Baumbach, with a foreword by Forgotten Realms creator Ed Greenwood, Rise of the Drow is 552 pages in length and designed for character levels 1-20. The original edition was nominated for an ENnie Award in 2014.
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How do Elves reproduce?

The bride's mother gives the groom a jewel to wear. Elves view the sexual act as special and intimate, for it leads to the birth of children. Elves cannot be forced to have sex; before that they will lose the will to endure and go to Mandos. Elves have few children, and there are long intervals between each child.
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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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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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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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