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In contrast, the Noldor looked at Aredhel and went 'you're so pale we're going to nickname you The White', which doesn't exactly suggest they're alabaster-skinned themselves.
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Not so. Aredhel (formerly Isfin) was tagged "The White Lady" because she always
wore white. Her hair was black, like nearly all Noldor; and the Noldor and the Sindar/Teleri both, according to Tolkien, were "
fair of skin and grey-eyed, though their locks were dark, save in the golden house of Finarfin." And the House of Beor similarly was dark-haired but fair-skinned with grey eyes, as was the half-Beorian Turin (Adanedhel, "Man-elf.") Not to mention Luthien and her
doppelgangerin Arwen. And Aragorn himself. and Boromir.
In other words, coloration akin to the "black Irish" of the real world, not a Mediterranean type.