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Vanyar
This name was probably given to the First Clan by the Ñoldor. They accepted it, but continued to call themselves most often by their old numerical name Minyar (since the whole of this clan had joined the Eldar and reached Aman). The name referred to the hair of the Minyar, which was in nearly all members of the clan yellow or deep golden. This was regarded as a beautiful feature by the Ñoldor (who loved gold), though they were themselves mostly dark-haired. Owing to intermarriage the golden hair of the Vanyar sometimes later appeared among the Ñoldor: notably in the case of Finarfin, and in his children Finrod and Galadriel, in whom it came from King Finwe s second wife, Indis of the Vanyar.
...it [Vanyar] meant 'pale, light-coloured, not brown or dark'...
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In general the Sindar appear to have very closely resembled the Exiles [who were Noldor], being dark-haired...

Quendi and Eldar

Finarfin was of his mother's kind in mind and body, having the golden hair of the Vanyar...

Unfinished Tales

All the Eldar had beautiful hair (and were especially attracted by hair of exceptional loveliness), but the Ñoldor were not specially remarkable in this respect, and there is no reference to Finwë as having had hair of exceptional length, abundance, or beauty beyond the measure of his people.(11)

(Author's Note 11)He had black hair, but brilliant grey-blue eyes.

The Shibboleth of Feanor