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Originally Posted by Galin
... that Silver hair need not be because of great age. That is, Celeborn didn't look old (but was old) and had silver hair.
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Yep, silver or white as a natural hair colour seems to have been quite common among the Teleri, especially the close kin of Elwe. Still, it's quite possible that they 'greyed' more easily than Elves of the other kindreds for that very reason. The whole matter has been discussed at some length in
another thread, and I especially like the point
Roa made in
this post:
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Originally Posted by Roa_Aoife
It seems clear that originally Cirdan's hair was silver. Perhaps the description of his hair being grey was not so much the loss of color (as the greying that our hair goes through in old age) but the loss of the sheen that made it look silver. The soul of an Elf is a bright burning flame. It stands to reason that as an Elf reaches the third stage of life, that flame dims a little, causes them to lose a little of the shine that follows their description in almost every instance. So Cirdan's hair may have been the same color, but dimmed somehow. Does that make sense?
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It does to me - Cirdan's grey hair would be his natural Teler silver dulled, rather than depigmented, by age.