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gurguliare · 8 years ago

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yavieriel replied to your photo:garden-ghoul: everyone’s favorite royal family!...

…but the Teleri aren’t blond? They’re mostly brunettes like the Noldor with exception for the royal house (Elwe/Thingol, Olwe, and Elmo) who had silver hair. Thingol translates as grey-cloak and was a reference to his hair being silver-grey.

4 GHOUL’S REFERENCE (though is that really what ‘Greycloak’ references? I didn’t realize, I just assumed he dressed matchy)

#yavieriel #tumblr as she is spoke #i think the silm also implies that thingol's hair only turned silver after he met melian which always made me wonder if silver hair for the #teleri was like ... triggered by prolonged exposure to the light of the trees or smth #... uhhhh several logic jumps there but since The Light Of Aman Was In Her Face then... maybe #because olwe and elmo's hair color is never specified right? but we know earwen's hair was silver. so it COULD be aman-specific #let's be honest i just enjoy the trees as this weird environmental factor in the eldar's phenotype expression #oh i think this actually makes no sense bc of cirdan though. oh well. good thing i talked it out before putting it in a fic

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