red-headed elves?

[Finwen]

Re: red-headed Elves in the film. There is actually a more obvious one in FotR, albeit the extended version. When the Fellowship leave Rivendell, Arwen is standing with a group of Elves and the female on her right, I think, is a red head. <P>And now to the original question... <P>I have no idea where they come from. As pointed out, blond(e)s are supposed to be Woodland Elves and darker ones from Rivendell, which has some basis in the canon; but it is, as usual, a lot more complicated than that in the long run and PJ is being a little simplistic by defining such things as hair and eye colour by where a specific Elf comes from. <P>That said, if an Elf from Mirkwood has been noted to have red hair, and an Elf from Rivendell also has this colouring, I'd deduce that red hair, although rarely seen, is not location-based and that any old Elf, wherever they are from, could have it. ^-^ <P>..... Or maybe PJ just invented a new breed of red-headed Elves? <BR>