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#Mahtan produces a few free radicals but majority of nerdanel’s kids are still raven
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If the character didn’t have black hair, grey eyes, and pale skin Tolkien was too ashamed to tell us what they looked like.
#I know he sometimes tells us they’re blonde
#And there was that one time we got a whole description of Frodo!
#But apart from this
#We only ever shy near Legolas’ appearance when he’s standing in the dark
#so any possibly offensive hair colour is covered by the night
#Tolkien explicitly states that there are black roots in Saruman’s hair; even he wasn’t free from it
#Our brown-haired friend Boromir is promptly villainised
#Meanwhile his raven brother gets a dramatic kiss in which his hair plays a unique part
#The man had something big against brunettes
#Not to mention all of the Noldor being of that colouring. It takes Indis and earwen to make blonde children
#Mahtan produces a few free radicals but majority of nerdanel’s kids are still raven
#The entire house of Nolofinwe is a noldoran stereotype
#Luthien! And all her kids!
#The house of Bëor
#Meanwhile the house of Haleth which possibly contains brunettes is only described with greatest discomfort as
#‘Of like colouring’ or something to the house of Bëor and ‘lesser stature’
#Tolkien politely refuses to comment on the hair of either Huor or Eärendil
#both of which are most likely blond given their ancestry
#Anyway
#silm shitpost
#tolkien shitpost
#tolkien
#jrr tolkien
#lotr
#lord of the rings
#tolkien legendarium
#tolkien lore
#silmarillion
#silm
#the silmarillion
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