<BLOCKQUOTE>quote:<HR><B>Ebony:</B> Really he is not telling you what colour Shadowfax is at all - only that his coat glistens like silver, and is at night like a shade.<HR></BLOCKQUOTE> That was a nice quote you looked up. I never realized that Tolkien was not coloring the horse directly.<P>I was "offended" when I saw the movie Shadowfax portrayed as white, when I had "silver-grey" in mind. And definitely, how would a white horse pass as a "shade" at night? (Hello! hope there is no moon!)<P>However, as you describe it, it could have been a very shiny black. That is interesting. <P>It reminds me of a conundrum I experienced related to the computer-animated television program called <I>ReBoot</I>. One of the lead characters, Bob the Guardian, has a shiny, black mop of hair that reflects silver at some angles. Because his hair is disheveled, it always seems two-colored. When I got the Bob the Guardian action figure (a collectible), his hair was reduced to a silver gray--<I>with no black at all</I>.
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For I was talking aloud to myself. A habit of the old: they choose the wisest person present to speak to; the long explanations needed by the young are wearying. -Gandalf, The Two Towers
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