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<blockquote data-quote="Dragongirl" data-source="post: 418145" data-attributes="member: 6178">I think you are missing something.Silmarillion pg 441 &quot;Vanyar&nbsp; The first host of the Eldar.....The name (singular Vanya) means 'the Fair', referring to the golden hair of the Vanyar; see Finarfin....&quot;so.....1) The Vanyar were different enough with their golden hair to be named after it.2) If it was different enough to be named for, then the other elven groups must not have had blond hair commonly.&nbsp; Not saying it didn't happen but at least MOST of them must not have had blond hair.Obviously the Noldor could have intermarried more than just the famous case of Indis, but I doubt it happened enough to make most of the Noldor blond.&nbsp; Most of the Noldor were either dead or decided to return to Valinor at the end of the First Age after they were forgiven.&nbsp; So, who were the elves of Lorien?&nbsp; Some of course could have been Noldor following the last of the great Noldor leaders left, but I believe most would have been Sindar or Nandor.In any case, having already established my arguement why most elves were not blond I think it was unreasonable to have EVERY single elf that was in the group that captured the company be blond.&nbsp; <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile&nbsp; &nbsp; :)"&nbsp; data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /></blockquote>

[QUOTE="Dragongirl, post: 418145, member: 6178"] I think you are missing something. Silmarillion pg 441 "Vanyar The first host of the Eldar.....The name (singular Vanya) means 'the Fair', referring to the golden hair of the Vanyar; see Finarfin...." so..... 1) The Vanyar were different enough with their golden hair to be named after it. 2) If it was different enough to be named for, then the other elven groups must not have had blond hair commonly. Not saying it didn't happen but at least MOST of them must not have had blond hair. Obviously the Noldor could have intermarried more than just the famous case of Indis, but I doubt it happened enough to make most of the Noldor blond. Most of the Noldor were either dead or decided to return to Valinor at the end of the First Age after they were forgiven. So, who were the elves of Lorien? Some of course could have been Noldor following the last of the great Noldor leaders left, but I believe most would have been Sindar or Nandor. In any case, having already established my arguement why most elves were not blond I think it was unreasonable to have EVERY single elf that was in the group that captured the company be blond. :) [/QUOTE]

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