Well, pio has a fairly good reason to not really allow red-haired and green-eyed Elves in RPGs. Red hair is actually the result of a certain mingling of both brown/black hair on one parent's side, with blond/very light hair on the other parent's side. The way it works is, dark hair is a dominant gene, whereas the gene for blond hair is recessive. A person with a dominant dark-hair gene and a recessive blond-hair gene could marry someone with a both dominant and recessive blond-haired gene, and have a child (or more) with red hair. It's actually just a quirk of nature.
Unless your character is in some way related to Mahtan/Nerdanel, or is the result of any intermingling of Noldorin and Vanyarin bloodlines, then you can be sure that it's "ok" to have red hair. Other than that, however, it is very rare.
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But Melkor also was there, and he came to the house of Fëanor, and there he slew Finwë King of the Noldor before his doors, and spilled the first blood in the Blessed Realm; for Finwë alone had not fled from the horror of the Dark.
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