[Inderjit Sanghera]

Sorry to nitpick Lalaith (My god, this is beginning to sound repetitive) but:

. The Vanyar, led by Ingwe, are the only elves with golden hair, and they never returned to Middle Earth.

Some returned for 40 odd years in the war of wrath.

However, the Noldo Finarfin, Galadriel's father, married a Vanya which is why she has gold hair.

Finarfin married a Telerin princes-Earwen, daughter of Olwe. It was Finwe who married a Vanyar, Indis, who was close kin of Ingwe, sometimes she was his sister and sometimes his niece. Finarfin and his children, have golden hair. Just a question where is it in the Silmarillion that states that Fingolfin had golden hair? His eldest son, Fingon, is said to have dark, gold-plaited hair (Hence his Quenya name Findekano-hair shout) and Aredhel also had dark hair, and I’m sure that Argon had dark hair as well. I have never, to my knowledge found nay reference to Turgon’s hair, or it’s colour. Anyone know? Also, on the subject of Aegnor’s hair, which was said to be ‘strong and stiff, rising upon his head like fire’. Well it seems that Aegnor ha pretty funky hair. Anyone care to describe it in their own way. I fancy he was rather like some characters form a Japanese anime named Dragonball Z.

So, there’ my nitpicking, though I suppose that someone will be picking my nits soon enough. I would also like to say how much I have enjoyed reading this topic and there have been many great and informative posts.