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Old 01-20-2004, 06:04 PM   #18
Imladris
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Imladris has just left Hobbiton.
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...and at the head of a long line of feasters sat a woodland king with a crown of leaves upon his golden hair...
Flies and Spiders in The Hobbit

I have the annotated Hobbit and this is what the note says:

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The golden hair of the Elvenking is unusual. In Appendix F of The Lord of the Rings , Tolkien wrote of the Elves that "they were tall, fair of skin and grey-eyed, though their locks were dark, save in the golden house of Finarfin." ... However, the passage cited from Appendix F has a curious history, and when originally written it was meant to refer to the Noldor, not to all of the Elves. Christopher Tolkien has noted that the Vanyar, one of the Three Kindreds of the High Elves, had golden hair, and it was from the Vanya Indis (the mother of Fingolfin and Finarfin) that the golden haired Noldor descended.
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