Their hair comes in various colors, from bleach blondes to browns to black to even white or purple. Red hair is never seen. For dark elves whose skin may not shine a purple tint, they will occasionally have hair that holds some shade of purple. Dark elves have average heights of 5'7'' to 6'4''.
Dark Elves are characterized by white or silver hair and obsidian black and gray skin. Their eyes are red (or rarely gray, violet, or yellow) in darkness and can be many different colors in normal light.
Dark Elves share much with their Western cousins as far as appearances go, but they are rather unique in many ways as well, mostly due to the conditions of the land they inhabit. Dark Elves have obsidian, gray, and sometimes even jet black skin.
Lúthien Tinúviel and her remote descendant Arwen Undómiel, both described as the fairest of all Elves, were dark haired. Additionally, a silver hair colour existed among the Teleri and in the royal houses of the Sindar, with Thingol, Círdan and Celeborn all described as having silver hair.
The Dunmer, also known as Dark Elves, are the ash-skinned, typically red-eyed elven peoples of Morrowind. "Dark" is commonly understood as meaning such characteristics as "dark-skinned", "gloomy", "ill-favored by fate" and so on.
Their facial features are slightly, but visibly sharper than those of other elves, and they usually have a more "angry" brow curve, which in combination with their blade-sharp, carnivorous teeth gives them a rather savage and predatory appearance.
In Norse cosmology, svartálfar (O.N. "black elves", "swarthy elves", sing. svartálfr), also called myrkálfar ("dark elves", "dusky elves", "murky elves", sing. myrkálfr), are beings who dwell in Svartalfheim (Svartálf[a]heimr, "home of the black-elves").
Red: Tolkien only describes four elves with red hair, and they are all related (Mahtan - Feanor's father-in-law, and three of Feanor's sons - Maedhros, Amrod and Amras.) All four of these elves were Noldorin, which is the rarer of the two groups of elves still in Middle Earth.
Christmas elves are usually depicted as green- or red-clad, with large, pointy ears and wearing pointy hats. They are most often depicted as humanoids, but sometimes as furry mammals with tails.
It is possible for elves to have red hair, but it is exceedingly rare.
For the most part, the dark elves are considered extinct, as their Empire no longer exists; however, dark elves have recently been spotted in colonial establishments on the surface. The Val'Sharess is one of the rare surviving dark elves of the Moons Age, which places her age at over twelve hundred years old, at least.
In Norse mythology, the svartálfar ("black elves") or dökkálfar (" dark elves") are supernatural beings (Old Norse " vættir," wights) that are said to reside in the underground world of Svartálfheim.
They are a very diverse race hair, eye and skin wise depending on region, kingdom and family they hail from. Dark elves are mostly descended from elves of Nagarythe so naturaly have paler skin and dark hair after centuries of cross breeding.
Such elves are almost unfailingly marked with the white or silver hair of the drow parent, and more often than not have dusky gray skin that takes on a purplish or bluish tinge in the right light, while their eye color usually favors that of the human parent.
Most high elves have black hair, with silvery hues common amongst moon elves and star elves while blond or copper hues are more common amongst the sun elves.
Dark Elves, also known as Dunmer, are a prejudiced, disciplined, tradition-heavy people. This hardness has led to the development of an ancestral wrath power that surrounds them in flames. They are not only known for being ruthless in war, but for being very skilled at it, too.
Red elves, known as the Rudes-sar in the elven language, are the tenth-born elven race. Living on the northern coast of Wyrland they are often stereotyped as addicts, drunkards, unemployed, and vagabonds.
With bronze colored skin; gold, black, or green eyes; and gold, blond, black, or (rarely) red hair, they are also called gold elves. Sun elves are less physically fit, but more intellectually advanced, than their counterparts.
Moon elf hair is commonly black, blue, or silvery white, although human-like colors are heard of as well, though very rare. Moon elf eyes, like those of other eladrin, are very commonly green, although some are blue as well. All exhibit a characteristic best described as golden flecks speckled through the iris.
Like all of the Tel-quessir, the sun elves are close to the height of humans, but with notable differences. Sun elves have bronze-colored skin and hair most often of copper, golden blond, and black, with red more uncommon but heard of.
The blood elves (or sin'dorei in Thalassian ("children of the blood")) were not always part of the Horde. They are a playable race composed of former high elves who renamed themselves in honor of their people who were killed during the siege of Quel'Thalas by the Scourge during the Third War.
The rarest type of elf known as the high or summer elves the Eladrin for a time all but vanished from the world, recently they have been sighted again in civilisation. race features: Eladrin demonstrate many of the ideals the shorter lived races have for the cultured elves.
The first and most important rule is that you must NOT touch your Elf. If you do, they will lose all their magic - and nobody wants that to happen. When scout elves lose their magic, they can't go about their Christmas duties. This means no presents for anyone in your family!
There live the folk called light-elves, but dark-elves live down in the ground, and they are unlike them in appearance, and even more unlike them in nature. Light-elves are fairer than the sun to look at, but dark-elves are blacker than pitch.