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  Posted by Michael Martinez on July 13, 1999 at 13:04:14
In Reply to: Re: Hair Color Among Sindar and Beornings (was Re: Merp Erratum) posted by Martin on July 13, 1999 at 05:03:56:



: I hadn't realised Thranduil was described as blond. Then again : his son Legolas is dark, as was the doyen of Sindarin beauty : Luthien. I can't help feeling that, as Tolkien based Luthien's : colouring on that of his wife, he would have disapproved of her : people being summarily "bleached." In The Silmarillion the : impression given is that the only blond Elves were the Vanyar : or those with Vanyar ancestry. Another point is - have the : MERP people any basis for making Silvan Elves red-haired?

I cannot think of any explicit reason. I suppose they could have extrapolated something. Not knowing when the material was written, I can't say much. :)

: A mixture would be fine, but to state that all Beornings must : be blond in the face of the only evidence available is nothing : short of perverse. There is also the shape changing aspect to : consider - a large dark hairy man is somewhat suggestive of a : bear, but is the same true of a blond man? After all there are : Black Bears and Brown Bears but not Golden Bears - outside the : realms of children's toys.

Maybe this is older material. Over the last few years I've had communications with writers who were very displeased with the earlier MERP stuff, but then, a lot of MERP modules were written before most of the HISTORY OF MIDDLE-EARTH books came out.

Now the writers have to stay close to the "MERP canon", as it were, and yet still hope to introduce a greater degree of faithfulness to the full corpus.

Parma Endorion: Essays on Middle-earth, Revised Edition


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