Sauron's hair colour

[Aganzir]

Originally Posted by Faramir Jones

It's just as bad with some people's attitudes towards Fëanor.

This is probably not the right time to speak about it to me because I've been experiencing massive love towards Fëanor and his sons lately. Lovely arrogant idiots.

Originally Posted by Eönwë

Are you sure about that?

Note the word average there.

Thinking about Tolkien's hair colours more generally, I'm happy the tradition of having blond heroes and dark villains isn't there (granted, everything that is a fantasy cliche became so way after Tolkien), especially if Sauron's fair means not dark. However there seem to be a lot of grey eyes - a lot more than I'm used to seeing in my daily life. Is it a (partly) British thing, or is Middle-earth special?