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Originally Posted by Maédhros
And I agree with that. Yet, that doesn't answer the question. If both Men and Elves were created in the same theme, how come men end up being Multi-racial, while Elves are all white?
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You know, I have always thought of tolkien writing in the elves as mere custodians of Middle-Earth and guide to some of the men who would inturn influence others (think the Egyptians, Babylonians and Greeks etc). Hence the elves were not the lords of Middle-earth; men were. That together with the facts that they were not widely spreaded throughout the world and their time on Middle-earth was short could most probably explain their percieved "caucasian" features.
Men on the other hand would spread out and settle in many parts of that world and hence they would evolve physically to their environments over the ages.
That stated, I submit the possibility that when Tolkien wrote on the physical appearances of elves, he might have a totally distinctibe racial look for them that could be very different from Caucasians. After all in this world we live in, many people other the caucasoid have grey eyes, fair skin and height. Whose to say the great one had actually a combination of the best features of each racial stock for the elves - making them very similar to everyone that sees them, yet quite alien.