Posted: July 25, 2000 at 11:21:29: by Drea
I've heard something about him designing characters after his wife edith... but two things come to mind How old was she when he wrote this...(perhaps if she were older she had slivery hair.) And the second thing is, I'm sure he didn't base the entire elf race around her looks. Although they probably all had characteristics...there had to be a defining feature so that the Wood elves, Noldar High Elves and Sindarian High elves could be told apart. Otherwise they would all look like his wife and no one would be able to tell which race they were without asking. So in order to separate them wouldn't they have to have a defining characteristic such as different shades of hair color, eye color, and height? And if that would be correct, perhaps was Glorfindel or maybe Galadriel made exactly like his wife, and although other elves may look the same or have some of the same characteristics as Edith, perhaps they, maybe even Legolas had lighter hair so you could tell him apart from the character Glorfindel? He's a very intellegent man from what I rea, Tolkein is. I'm sure he knows that he can mold the elves into a vision of his beloved wife, but that the different races and classes of elves can't all look identical.But as I am pretty new and only have the movie and what I have read so far to go on... I still can't come to a firm conclusion on that.
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