Hair and Eye Colors in Tolkien's Works

Index

The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings

Aragorn
Arwen
Frodo Baggins
Balin
Bard
Beorn
Tom Bombadil
Boromir
Meriadoc Brandybuck
Bree-Men
Celeborn
Círdan
Damrod
Denethor
Dol Amroth, Men of
Dunlendings
Dwalin
Elanor Gardner
The Eldar

unnamed Elf in Lórien
Elladan & Elrohir
Elrond
Ents
Entwives
Eorl the Young
Éowyn
Faramir
Bill Ferny
Fíli, Kíli
Forlong of Lossarnach
Freca
Galadriel
Samwise Gamgee
Gandalf
Ghân-buri-Ghân
Gimli
Glóin
Glorfindel

Goldberry
Gollum
Gríma
Haradrim
Hirgon
Hobbits
Mablung
Nazgûl
Quickbeam
Rohirrim
Lotho Sackville-Baggins
Saruman
Sauron
Shadowfax
Théoden
Thorin Oakenshield
Thranduil
Peregrin Took
Treebeard

The Silmarillion and Unfinished Tales

Aldarion
Almarian
Amroth
Aredhel
Eärwen
Erendis
Drúedain
Elwë Thingol
Fëanor
Finarfin
Finduilas, daughter of Orodreth
Finrod Felagund

Forweg
Galadriel
Gandalf
Glorfindel
Hador Lórindol
House of Bëor
Húrin Thalion
Idril
Indis
Lúthien
Maeglin
Manwë

Morwen Eledhwen
Morwen of Lossarnach
Nienor Níniel
People of Hador
Saruman
Swarthy Men
Tulkas
Tuor
Túrin Turambar
Urwen Lalaith
Voronwë

Entries

Aldarion

Eyes:	blue
Hair:	golden
Sources:
Aldarion and Erendis UT	Aldarion, for so he is called in all tales, grew swiftly to a man of great stature, strong and vigorous in mind and body, golden-haired as his mother, ready to mirth and generous, but prouder than his father and ever more bent on his own will.
Aldarion and Erendis UT	Then her heart was shaken; for the blue eyes of Aldarion seemed to her now grey and cold, yet she perceived as it were a hunger in his gaze.

Almarian, mother of Aldarion

Hair:	golden
Sources:
Aldarion and Erendis UT	Aldarion, for so he is called in all tales, grew swiftly to a man of great stature, strong and vigorous in mind and body, golden-haired as his mother, ready to mirth and generous, but prouder than his father and ever more bent on his own will.

Amroth

Hair:	gold
Sources:
The History of Galadriel and Celeborn: Amroth and Nimrodel UT	The mariners with their Elvish sight for a long time could see him battling with the waves, until the rising sun gleamed through the clouds and far off lit his bright hair like a spark of gold.

Aragorn

Eyes:	grey
Hair:	dark, flecked with grey
Sources:
At the Sign of the Prancing Pony FotR	As Frodo drew near he threw back his hood, showing a shaggy head of dark hair flecked with grey, and in a pale stern face a pair of keen grey eyes.
The Great River FotR	In the stern sat Aragorn son of Arathorn, proud and erect, guiding the boat with skilful strokes; his hood was cast back, and his dark hair was blowing in the wind, a light was in his eyes: a king returning from exile to his own land.
The Field of Cormallen RotK	And then they knew him, changed as he was, so high and glad of face, kingly, lord of Men, dark-haired with eyes of grey.

Aredhel

Hair:	dark
Sources:
Quenta Silmarillion: Of Eldamar Sil	Ar-Feiniel she was called, the White Lady of the Noldor, for she was pale, though her hair was dark, and she was never arrayed but in silver and white.

Arwen

Eyes:	grey
Hair:	dark
Sources:
Many Meetings FotR	The braids of her dark hair were touched by no frost, her white arms and clear face were flawless and smooth, and the light of stars was in her bright eyes, grey as a cloudless night; yet queenly she looked, and thought and knowledge were in her glance, as of one who has known many things that the years bring.
Appendix A RotK	And behold! there Lúthien walked before his eyes in Rivendell, clad in a mantle of silver and blue, fair as the twilight in Elven-home; her dark hair strayed in a sudden wind, and her brows were bound with gems like stars.

Drúedain

Eyes:	black
Beards:	black
Sources:
The Drúedain UT	To the eyes of Elves and other Men they were unlovely in looks: they were stumpy (some four foot high) but very broad, with heavy buttocks and short thick legs; their wide faces had deep-set eyes with heavy brows, and flat noses, and grew no hair below their eyebrows, except in a few men (who were proud of the distinction) a small tail of black hair in the midst of the chin.
The Drúedain UT	Their features were usually impassive, the most mobile being their wide mouths; and the movement of their wary eyes could not be observed save from close at hand, for they were so black that the pupils could not be distinguished, but in anger they glowed red.

Eärwen, mother of Galadriel

Hair:	silver
Sources:
The History of Galadriel and Celeborn UT	It was golden like the hair of her father and of her foremother Indis, but richer and more radiant, for its gold was touched by some memory of the starlike silver of her mother; and the Eldar said that the light of the Two Trees, Laurelin and Telperion, had been snared in her tresses.

Elwë Thingol

Hair:	grey silver
Sources:
Quenta Silmarillion: Of Eldamar Sil	His people gathered about him in joy, and they were amazed; for fair and noble as he had been, now he appeared as it were a lord of the Maiar, his hair as grey silver, tallest of all the Children of Ilúvatar; and a high doom was before him.

Erendis

Eyes:	grey
Hair:	dark
Sources:
Aldarion and Erendis UT	There Almarian the Queen observed her beauty, of a kind seldom seen in Númenor; for Beregar came of the House of Bëor by ancient descent, though not of the royal line of Elros, and Erendis was dark-haired and of slender grace, with the clear grey eyes of her kin.
Aldarion and Erendis UT	Riding one day in the forests of the Westlands he saw a woman, whose dark hair flowed in the wind, and about her was a green cloak clasped at the throat with a bright jewel; and he took her for one of the Eldar, who came at times to those parts of the Island.

Fëanor

Hair:	raven-dark
Sources:
Quenta Silmarillion: Of Fëanor and the Unchaining of Melkor Sil	He was tall, and fair of face, and masterful, his eyes piercingly bright and his hair raven-dark; in the pursuit of all his purposes eager and steadfast.

Finarfin

Hair:	golden
Sources:
The History of Galadriel and Celeborn UT	Finarfin was of his mother's kind in mind and body, having the golden hair of the Vanyar, their noble and gentle temper, and their love of the Valar.
The History of Galadriel and Celeborn UT	It was golden like the hair of her father and of her foremother Indis, but richer and more radiant, for its gold was touched by some memory of the starlike silver of her mother; and the Eldar said that the light of the Two Trees, Laurelin and Telperion, had been snared in her tresses.
The History of Galadriel and Celeborn UT	Finrod was like his father in his fair face and golden hair, and also in noble and generous heart, though he had the high courage of the Noldor and in his youth their eagerness and unrest; and he had also from his Telerin mother a love of the sea and dreams of far lands that he had never seen.

Finduilas, daughter of Orodreth

Hair:	golden
Sources:
Narn I Hîn Húrin (Appendix) UT	Finduilas the daughter of Orodreth was golden-haired after the manner of the house of Finarfin, and Túrin began to take pleasure in the sight of her and in her comapny; for she reminded him of his kindred and the women of Dor-lómin in his father's house.

Finrod Felagund

Hair:	golden
Sources:
The History of Galadriel and Celeborn UT	Finrod was like his father in his fair face and golden hair, and also in noble and generous heart, though he had the high courage of the Noldor and in his youth their eagerness and unrest; and he had also from his Telerin mother a love of the sea and dreams of far lands that he had never seen.

Frodo Baggins

Hair:	probably brown
Sources:
At the Sign of the Prancing Pony FotR	"And I made a nice imitation of your head with a brown woollen mat, Mr. Bag -- Underhill, sir," he added with a grin.

Balin

Beard:	white
Sources:
An Unexpected Party The Hobbit	Instead there was a very old-looking dwarf on the step with a white beard and a scarlet hood; and he too hopped inside as soon as the door was open, just as if he had been invited.
An Unexpected Party The Hobbit	"A little beer would suit me better, if it is all the same to you, my good sir," said Balin with the white beard.

Bard

Hair:	black, dark
Sources:
Fire and Water The Hobbit	He was drenched with water, his black hair hung wet over his face and shoulders, and a fierce light was in his eyes.
The Gathering of the Clouds The Hobbit	A tall man stood forward, dark of hair and grim of face, and he cried: "Hail Thorin! Why do you fence yourself like a robber in his hold?"

Beorn

Hair:	black
Beard:	black
Sources:
Queer Lodgings The Hobbit	He changes his skin; sometimes he is a huge black bear, sometimes he is a great strong black-haired man with huge arms and a great beard.
Queer Lodgings The Hobbit	Standing near was a huge man with a thick black beard and hair, and great bare arms and legs with knotted muscles.

Tom Bombadil

Eyes:	blue
Hair:	brown
Beard:	brown
Sources:
The Old Forest FotR	He had a blue coat and a long brown beard; his eyes were blue and bright, and his face was red as a ripe apple, but creased into a hundred wrinkles of laughter.
In the House of Tom Bombadil FotR	He opened his eyes and looked at them with a sudden glint of blue:
In the House of Tom Bombadil FotR	He then told them many remarkable stories, sometimes half as if speaking to himself, sometimes looking at them suddenly with a bright blue eye under his deep brows.
In the House of Tom Bombadil FotR	For a second the hobbits had a vision, both comical and alarming, of his bright blue eye gleaming through a circle of gold.
In the House of Tom Bombadil FotR	He had now no hat and his thick brown hair was crowned with autumn leaves.

Boromir

Eyes:	grey
Hair:	dark
Sources:
The Council of Elrond FotR	And seated a little apart was a tall man with a fair and noble face, dark-haired and grey-eyed, proud and stern of glance.
The Departure of Boromir TTT	They combed his long dark hair and arrayed it upon his shoulders.

Meriadoc Brandybuck

Hair:	brown
Sources:
The Road to Isengard TTT	A young man he looked, or like one, though not much more than half a man in height; his head of brown curling hair was uncovered, but he was clad in a travel-stained cloak of the same hue and shape as the companions of Gandalf had worn when they rode to Edoras.
The Passing of the Grey Company RotK	"Gladly will I take it," said the king; and laying his long old hands upon the brown hair of the hobbit; he blessed him.
The Houses of Healing RotK	Then Aragorn laid his hand on Merry's head, and passing his hand gently through the brown curls, he touched the eyelids, and called him by name.

Bree-Men

Hair:	brown
Sources:
At the Sign of the Prancing Pony FotR	The Men of Bree were brown-haired, broad, and rather short, cheerful and independent: they belonged to nobody but themselves; but they were more friendly and familiar with Hobbits, Dwarves, Elves, and other inhabitants of the world about them than was (or is) usual with Big People.

Celeborn

Hair:	silver
Sources:
The Mirror of Galadriel FotR	They were clad wholly in white; and the hair of the Lady was of deep gold, and the hair of the Lord Celeborn was of silver long and bright; but no sign of age was upon them, unless it were in the depths of their eyes; for these were keen as lances in the starlight, and yet profound, the wells of deep memory.

Círdan

Hair:	grey
Beard:	grey
Sources:
The Grey Havens RotK	Very tall he was, and his beard was long, and he was grey and old, save that his eyes were keen as stars; and he looked at them and bowed, and said: "All is now ready."

Damrod

Eyes:	grey
Hair:	dark
Sources:
Of Herbs and Stewed Rabbit TTT	They took off their masks now and again to cool them, as the day-heat grew, and Frodo saw that they were goodly men, pale-skinned, dark of hair, with grey eyes and faces sad and proud.

Denethor

Eyes:	dark
Sources:
Minas Tirith RotK	Pippin saw his carven face with its proud bones and skin like ivory, and the long curved nose between the dark deep eyes; and he was reminded not so much of Boromir as of Aragorn.
Minas Tirith RotK	He turned his dark eyes on Gandalf, and now Pippin saw a likeness between the two, and he felt the strain between them, almost as if he saw a line of smouldering fire, drawn from eye to eye, that might suddenly burst into flame.
The Siege of Gondor RotK	The Lord of the City sat now in a high chamber above the Hall of the White Tower with Pippin at his side; and through the dim windows, north and south and east, he bent his dark eyes, as if to pierce the shadows of doom that ringed him round.

Dol Amroth, Men of

Eyes:	sea-grey
Hair:	dark
Sources:
Minas Tirith RotK	But beyond, in the great fief of Belfalas, dwelt Prince Imrahil in his castle of Dol Amroth by the sea, and he was of high blood, and his folk also, tall men and proud with sea-grey eyes.
Minas Tirith RotK	And last and proudest, Imrahil, Prince of Dol Amroth, kinsman of the Lord, with gilded banners bearing his token of the Ship and the Silver Swan, and a company of knights in full harness riding grey horses; and behind them seven hundreds of men at arms, tall as lords, grey-eyed, dark-haired, singing as they came.

Dunlendings

Hair:	dark
Sources:
Flotsam and Jetsam TTT	Most of them were ordinary men, rather tall and dark-haired, and grim but not particularly evil-looking.
Appendix F RotK	Dunland and Dunlending are the names that the Rohirrim gave to them, because they were swarthy and dark-haired; there is thus no connexion between the word dunn in these names and the Grey-elven word Dûn 'west'.

Dwalin

Beard:	blue
Sources:
An Unexpected Party The Hobbit	It was a dwarf with a blue beard tucked into a golden belt, and very bright eyes under his dark-green hood.

Elanor

Hair:	golden
Sources:
Appendix B RotK	She became known as 'the Fair' because of her beauty; many said that she looked more like an elf-maid than a hobbit. She had golden hair, which had been very rare in the Shire; but two others of Samwise's daughters were also golden-haired, and so were many of the children born at that time.

The Eldar

Eyes:	grey
Hair:	dark, occasionally golden
Sources:
Appendix F RotK	They were tall, fair of skin and grey-eyed, though their locks were dark, save in the golden house of Finarfin; and their voices had more melodies than any mortal voice that now is heard.

unnamed Elf in Lórien

Hair:	gold
Sources:
Lothlórien FotR	He gave a call like the low whistle of a bird, and out of a thicket of young trees an Elf stepped, clad in grey, but with his hood thrown back; his hair glinted like gold in the morning sun.

Elladan & Elrohir

Eyes:	grey
Hair:	dark
Sources:
The Passing of the Grey Company RotK	So much alike were they, the sons of Elrond, that few could tell them apart: dark-haired, grey-eyed, and their faces elven-fair, clad alike in bright mail beneath cloaks of silver-grey.

Elrond

Eyes:	grey
Hair:	dark
Sources:
Many Meetings FotR	His hair was dark as the shadows of twilight, and upon it was set a circlet of silver; his eyes were grey as a clear evening, and in them was a light like the light of stars.

Ents

Eyes:	brown, with a green light (see Treebeard)
Beard:	grey-green
Sources:
Treebeard TTT	But when the Ents all gathered round Treebeard, bowing their heads slightly, murmuring in their slow musical voices, and looking long and intently at the strangers, then the hobbits saw that they were all of the same kindred, and all had the same eyes: not all so old or so deep as Treebeard's, but all with the same slow, steady, thoughtful expression, and the same green flicker.
The Road to Isengard TTT	Their limbs were long, and their hands had many fingers; their hair was stiff, and their beards grey-green as moss.

Entwives

Hair:	ripe corn
Sources:
Treebeard TTT	For the Entwives were bent and browned by their labour; their hair parched by the sun to the hue of ripe corn and their cheeks like red apples.

Eorl the Young

Hair:	yellow
Sources:
The King of the Golden Hall TTT	He was blowing a great horn, and his yellow hair was flying in the wind.
Appendix A RotK	He was so named because he succeeded his father in youth and remained yellow-haired and ruddy to the end of his days.

Éowyn

Eyes:	grey
Hair:	gold
Sources:
The King of the Golden Hall TTT	Very fair was her face, and her long hair was like a river of gold.
The Muster of Rohan RotK	He caught the glint of clear grey eyes; and then he shivered, for it came suddenly to him that it was the face of one without hope who goes in search of death.
The Battle of the Pelennor Fields RotK	Her eyes grey as the sea were hard and fell, and yet tears were on her cheek.
The Battle of the Pelennor Fields RotK	But the helm of her secrecy, had fallen from her, and her bright hair, released from its bonds, gleamed with pale gold upon her shoulders.
The Steward and the King RotK	And so they stood on the walls of the City of Gondor, and a great wind rose and blew, and their hair, raven and golden, streamed out mingling in the air.

Faramir

Eyes:	grey
Hair:	raven
Sources:
The Window on the West TTT	Doubt was in the grey eyes that gazed steadily at Frodo.
The Window on the West TTT	He stood up, very tall and stern, his grey eyes glinting.
The Steward and the King RotK	And so they stood on the walls of the City of Gondor, and a great wind rose and blew, and their hair, raven and golden, streamed out mingling in the air.

Bill Ferny

Eyes:	dark
Hair:	black (eyebrows, at least)
Sources:
A Knife in the Dark FotR	He had heavy black brows, and dark scornful eyes; his large mouth curled in a sneer.

Fíli, Kíli

Beard:	yellow
Sources:
An Unexpected Party The Hobbit	It was two more dwarves, both with blue hoods, silver belts, and yellow beards; and each of them carried a bag of tools and a spade.

Forlong of Lossarnach

Beard:	grey
Sources:
Minas Tirith RotK	Leading the line there came walking a big thick-limbed horse, and on it sat a man of wide shoulders and huge girth, but old and grey-bearded, yet mail-clad and black-helmed and bearing a long heavy spear.

Forweg

Hair:	fair
Sources:
Narn I Hîn Húrin UT	The grimmest among them was one named Andróg, hunted from Dor-lómin for the slaying of a woman; and others also came from that land: old Algund, the oldest of the fellowship, who had fled from the Nirnaeth, and Forweg, as he named himself, the captain of the band, a man with fair hair and unsteady glittering eyes, big and bold, but far fallen from the ways of the Edain of the people of Hador.

Freca

Hair:	dark
Sources:
Appendix A RotK	There was at that time a man named Freca, who claimed descent from King Fréawine, though he had, men said, much Dunlendish blood, and was dark-haired.

Galadriel

Hair:	deep gold, gold with silver radiance
Sources:
The Mirror of Galadriel FotR	They were clad wholly in white; and the hair of the Lady was of deep gold, and the hair of the Lord Celeborn was of silver long and bright; but no sign of age was upon them, unless it were in the depths of their eyes; for these were keen as lances in the starlight, and yet profound, the wells of deep memory.
Farewell to Lórien FotR	Then the Lady unbraided one of her long tresses, and cut off three golden hairs, and laid them in Gimli's hand.
Quenta Silmarillion: Of Eldamar Sil	A sister they had, Galadriel, most beautiful of all the house of Finwë; her hair was lit with gold as though it had caught in a mesh the radiance of Laurelin.
The History of Galadriel and Celeborn UT	It was golden like the hair of her father and of her foremother Indis, but richer and more radiant, for its gold was touched by some memory of the starlike silver of her mother; and the Eldar said that the light of the Two Trees, Laurelin and Telperion, had been snared in her tresses.

Samwise Gamgee

Eyes:	brown
Sources:
The Bridge of Khazad-dûm FotR	A fire was smouldering in his brown eyes that would have made Ted Sandyman step backwards, if he had seen it.
The Breaking of the Fellowship FotR	Fear was staring in his round brown eyes.

Gandalf

Eyes:	dark
Hair:	white, grey
Beard:	white, silver, grey
Sources:
An Unexpected Party The Hobbit	He had a tall pointed blue hat, a long grey cloak, a silver scarf over which a white beard hung down below his waist, and immense black boots.
A Long-expected Party FotR	He had a long white beard and bushy eyebrows that stuck out beyond the brim of his hat.
The Shadow of the Past FotR	His hair was perhaps whiter than it had been then, and his beard and eyebrows were perhaps longer, and his face more lined with care and wisdom; but his eyes were as bright as ever, and he smoked and blew smoke-rings with the same vigour and delight.
In the House of Tom Bombadil FotR	The moon as it rose seemed to hang for a moment above his head and glistened in his white hair as the wind stirred it.
Many Meetings FotR	Gandalf was shorter in stature than the other two; but his long white hair, his sweeping silver beard, and his broad shoulders, made him look like some wise king of ancient legend. In his aged face under great snowy brows his dark eyes were set like coals that could leap suddenly into fire.
The White Rider TTT	His hair was white as snow in the sunshine; and gleaming white was his robe; the eyes under his deep brows were bright, piercing as the rays of the sun; power was in his hand.
The White Rider TTT	They could not see his face: he was hooded, and above the hood he wore a wide-brimmed hat, so that all his features were over-shadowed, except for the end of his nose and his grey beard.
The King of the Golden Hall TTT	His snowy hair flew free in the wind, his white robes shone dazzling in the sun.
The Field of Cormallen RotK	With that Gandalf stood before him, robed in white, his beard now gleaming like pure snow in the twinkling of the leafy sunlight.
Homeward Bound RotK	The Bree folk were all out to see them off, and were in merrier mood than they had been for a year; and those who had not seen the strangers in all their gear before gaped with wonder at them: at Gandalf with his white beard, and the light that seemed to gleam from him, as if his blue mantle was only a cloud over sunshine; and at the four hobbits like riders upon errantry out of almost forgotten tales.
The Istari UT	Other there were also: two clad in sea-blue, and one in earthen brown; and last came one who seemed the least, less tall than the others, and in looks more aged, grey-haired and grey-clad, and leaning on a staff.

Ghân-buri-Ghân

Eyes:	dark
Sources:
The Ride of the Rohirrim RotK	The old man's flat face and dark eyes showed nothing, but his voice was sullen with displeasure.

Gimli

Eyes:	dark
Sources:
The Riders of Rohan TTT	Gimli rose and planted his feet firmly apart: his hand gripped the handle of his axe, and his dark eyes flashed.

Glóin

Beard:	white (at the time of LotR; unknown in The Hobbit)
Sources:
Many Meetings FotR	His beard, very long and forked, was white, nearly as white as the snow-white cloth of his garments.

Glorfindel

Hair:	golden, yellow
Sources:
Flight to the Ford FotR	The rider's cloak streamed behind him, and his hood was thrown back; his golden hair flowed shimmering in the wind of his speed.
Many Meetings FotR	Glorfindel was tall and straight; his hair was of shining gold, his face fair and young and fearless and full of joy; his eyes were bright and keen, and his voice like music; on his brow sat wisdom, and in his hand was strength.
Quenta Silmarillion: Of Tuor and the Fall of Gondolin Sil	Then dreadful was their plight, and hardly would they have been saved by the valour of yellow-haired Glorfindel, chief of the House of the Golden Flower of Gondolin, had not Thorondor come timely to their aid.

Goldberry

Hair:	yellow
Sources:
In the House of Tom Bombadil FotR	Her long yellow hair rippled down her shoulders; her gown was green, green as young reeds, shot with silver like beads of dew; and her belt was of gold, shaped like a chain of flag-lilies set with the pale-blue eyes of forget-me-nots.

Gollum

Eyes:	pale grey, luminous, with a green light
Sources:
Riddles in the Dark The Hobbit	He was Gollum -- as dark as darkness, except for two big round pale eyes in his thin face.
Riddles in the Dark The Hobbit	He was looking out of his pale lamp-like eyes for blind fish, which he grabbed with his long fingers as quick as thinking.
Riddles in the Dark The Hobbit	He was watching Bilbo now from the distance with his pale eyes like telescopes.
Riddles in the Dark The Hobbit	The hobbit jumped nearly out of his skin when the hiss came in his ears, and he suddenly saw the pale eyes sticking out at him.
Riddles in the Dark The Hobbit	But now the light in Gollum's eyes had become a green fire, and it was coming swiftly nearer.
Riddles in the Dark The Hobbit	He turned now and saw Gollum's eyes like small green lamps coming up the slope.
Riddles in the Dark The Hobbit	Bilbo crept away from the wall more quietly than a mouse; but Gollum stiffened at once, and sniffed, and his eyes went green.
Prologue FotR	He was a loathsome little creature: he paddled a small boat with his large flat feet, peering with pale luminous eyes and catching blind fish with his long fingers, and eating them raw.
Prologue FotR	The light in his eyes was like a green flame as he sped back to murder the hobbit and recover his 'precious'.
The Shadow of the Past FotR	He found he could hide from daylight and moonshine, and make his way swiftly and softly by dead of night with his pale cold eyes, and catch small frightened or unwary things.
Lothlórien FotR	Then coming up, close to the stem, Frodo saw two pale eyes.
The Great River FotR	A long whitish hand could be dimly seen as it shot out and grabbed the gunwale; two pale lamplike eyes shone coldly as they peered inside, and then they lifted and gazed up at Frodo on the eyot.
The Taming of Sméagol TTT	His pale eyes were half unlidded.
The Taming of Sméagol TTT	With his left hand he drew back Gollum's head by his thin lank hair, stretching his long neck, and forcing his pale venomous eyes to stare up at the sky.
The Taming of Sméagol TTT	He looked up at them, and a faint light of cunning and eagerness flickered for a second in his pale blinking eyes.
The Passage of the Marshes TTT	At the word hungry a greenish light was kindled in Gollum's pale eyes, and they seemed to protrude further than ever from his thin sickly face.
The Passage of the Marshes TTT	A pale light and a green light alternated in his eyes as he spoke.
Of Herbs and Stewed Rabbit TTT	He set his two large flat hands on his shrunken belly, and a pale green light came into his eyes.
The Forbidden Pool TTT	His pale eyes were shining.
The Forbidden Pool TTT	A green light was flickering in his bulging eyes.
Journey to the Cross-roads TTT	It must have been a little after midnight when Gollum woke up: suddenly they were aware of his pale eyes unlidded gleaming at them.
The Stairs of Cirith Ungol TTT	Then his eyes shone with a green-white light, reflecting the noisome Morgul-sheen perhaps, or kindled by some answering mood within.
The Stairs of Cirith Ungol TTT	The darkness was almost complete, and they could see nothing much beyond their hands' stretch; but Gollum's eyes shone pale, several feet above, as he turned back towards them.
The Stairs of Cirith Ungol TTT	The gleam faded from his eyes, and they went dim and grey, old and tired.
The Stairs of Cirith Ungol TTT	"Sneaking," said Gollum, and the green glint did not leave his eyes.

Gríma

Eyes:	dark
Sources:
The King of the Golden Hall TTT	He laughed grimly, as he lifted his heavy lids for a moment and gazed on the strangers with dark eyes.

Hador Lórindol

Hair:	gold
Sources:
Quenta Silmarillion: Of the Coming of Men into the West Sil	The Men of the Three Houses throve and multiplied, but greatest among them was the house of Hador Goldenhead, peer of Elven-lords.
Quenta Silmarillion: Of the Ruin of Beleriand and the Fall of Fingolfin Sil	Before the walls of Eithel Sirion fell Hador the Golden-haired, defending the rearguard of his lord Fingolfin, being then sixty and six years of age, and with him fell Gundor his younger son, pierced with many arrows; and they were mourned by the Elves.

Haradrim

Eyes:	black
Hair:	black
Sources:
The Black Gate is Closed TTT	They have black eyes, and long black hair, and gold rings in their ears; yes, lots of beautiful gold.
Of Herbs and Stewed Rabbit TTT	His scarlet robes were tattered, his corslet of overlapping brazen plates was rent and hewn, his black plaits of hair braided with gold were drenched with blood.

Hirgon

Eyes:	grey
Sources:
The Muster of Rohan RotK	Then he saw that it was not so; the man was a stranger, though as like to Boromir as if he were one of his kin, tall and grey-eyed and proud.

Hobbits

Hair:	commonly brown, lighter in Fallohides; often golden after the War
Sources:
An Unexpected Party The Hobbit	They are inclined to be fat in the stomach; they dress in bright colours (chiefly green and yellow); wear no shoes, because their feet grow natural leathery soles and thick warm brown hair like the stuff on their heads (which is curly); have long clever brown fingers, good-natured faces, and laugh deep fruity laughs (especially after dinner, which they have twice a day when they can get it).
Prologue FotR	They dressed in bright colours, being notably fond of yellow and green; but they seldom wore shoes, since their feet had tough leathery soles and were clad in a thick curling hair, much like the hair of their heads, which was commonly brown.
Prologue FotR	Fallohides were fairer of skin and also of hair, and they were taller and slimmer than the others; they were lovers of trees and of woodlands.
The Grey Havens RotK	All the children born or begotten in that year, and there were many, were fair to see and strong, and most of them had a rich golden hair that had before been rare among hobbits.

House of Bëor

Eyes:	grey
Hair:	dark or brown
Sources:
Quenta Silmarillion: Of the Coming of Men into the West Sil	The Men of that house were dark or brown of hair, with grey eyes; and of all Men they were most like to the Noldor and most loved by them; for they were eager of mind, cunning-handed, swift in understanding, long in memory, and they were moved sooner to pity than to laughter.

Húrin Thalion

Hair:	golden, gold-red; white (after released by Morgoth)
Beard:	white (after released by Morgoth)
Sources:
Quenta Silmarillion: Of the Ruin of Doriath Sil	His hair and beard were white and long, but he walked unbowed, bearing a great black staff; and he was girt with a sword.
Quenta Silmarillion: Of the Ruin of Doriath Sil	For Húrin stood in despair before the silent cliffs of the Echoriath, and the westering sun, piercing the clouds, stained his white hair with red.
Narn I Hîn Húrin UT	Húrin was by three years the elder, but he was shorter in stature than other men of his kin; in this he took after his mother's people, but in all else he was like Hador his grandfather, fair of face and golden-haired, strong in body and fiery of mood.
Narn I Hîn Húrin UT	But he was a smaller man, small for his kin, though filled with fire; and his hair gold-red.

Idril

Hair:	gold
Sources:
Quenta Silmarillion: Of the Noldor in Beleriand Sil	But fairer than all the wonders of Gondolin was Idril, Turgon's daughter, she that was called Celebrindal, the Silver-foot, whose hair was as the gold of Laurelin before the coming of Melkor.

Indis

Hair:	golden
Sources:
Quenta Silmarillion: Of Fëanor and the Unchaining of Melkor Sil	She was a Vanya, close kin of Ingwë the High King, golden-haired and tall, and in all ways unlike Míriel.
The History of Galadriel and Celeborn UT	It was golden like the hair of her father and of her foremother Indis, but richer and more radiant, for its gold was touched by some memory of the starlike silver of her mother; and the Eldar said that the light of the Two Trees, Laurelin and Telperion, had been snared in her tresses.

Lúthien

Eyes:	grey
Hair:	dark
Sources:
Quenta Silmarillion: Of Beren and Lúthien Sil	Blue was her raiment as the unclouded heaven, but her eyes were grey as the starlit evening; her mantle was sewn with golden flowers, but her hair was dark as the shadows of twilight.

Mablung

Eyes:	grey
Hair:	dark
Sources:
Of Herbs and Stewed Rabbit TTT	They took off their masks now and again to cool them, as the day-heat grew, and Frodo saw that they were goodly men, pale-skinned, dark of hair, with grey eyes and faces sad and proud.

Maeglin

Eyes:	dark
Hair:	black
Sources:
Quenta Silmarillion: Of Maeglin Sil	He was tall and black-haired; his eyes were dark, yet bright and keen as the eyes of the Noldor, and his skin was white.

Manwë

Eyes:	blue
Sources:
Quenta Silmarillion: Of the Beginning of Days Sil	His raiment is blue, and blue is the fire of his eyes, and his sceptre is of sapphire, which the Noldor wrought for him; and he was appointed to be the vicegerent of Ilúvatar, King of the world of Valar and Elves and Men, and the chief defence against the evil of Melkor.

Morwen Eledhwen

Hair:	dark
Sources:
Narn I Hîn Húrin UT	Morwen was dark-haired and tall, and for the light of her glance and the beauty of her face men called her Eledhwen, the elven-fair; but she was somewhat stern of mood and proud.

Morwen of Lossarnach

Hair:	probably dark
Sources:
Disaster of the Gladden Fields: Appendix, Númeórean Linear Measures UT	Éomer was said to have been tall, of like height with Aragorn; but he with other descendants of King Thengel were taller than the norm of Rohan, deriving this characteristic (together in some cases with darker hair) from Morwen, Thengel's wife, a lady of Gondor of high Númenórean descent.

Nazgûl

Hair:	grey (seen with the Ring on)
Sources:
A Knife in the Dark FotR	In their white faces burned keen and merciless eyes; under their mantles were long grey robes; upon their grey hairs were helms of silver; in their haggard hands were swords of steel.

Nienor Níniel

Eyes:	grey or blue
Hair:	gold
Sources:
Narn I Hîn Húrin UT	Then the others turned, and saw that the sun shone upon a head of gold: for it was Nienor, and her hood was blown back by the wind.
Narn I Hîn Húrin UT	Then Morwen saw in the grey eyes of Nienor the steadfastness of Húrin; and she wavered, but she could not overcome her pride, and would not seem thus (save the fair words) to be led back by her daughter, as one old and doting.
Narn I Hîn Húrin UT	She was tall, and her eyes were blue, her hair fine gold, the very likeness in woman's form of Húrin her father.

People of Hador

Eyes:	usually blue
Hair:	usually yellow
Sources:
Quenta Silmarillion: Of the Coming of Men into the West Sil	Yellow-haired they were for the most part, and blue-eyed; but not so was Túrin, whose mother was Morwen of the house of Bëor.

Quickbeam

Hair:	grey-green
Sources:
Treebeard TTT	He was tall, and seemed to be one of the younger Ents; he had smooth shining skin on his arms and legs; his lips were ruddy, and his hair was grey-green.

Rohirrim

Hair:	yellow, flaxen, pale, golden
Sources:
The Riders of Rohan TTT	Yellow is their hair, and bright are their spears.
The Riders of Rohan TTT	The Men that rode them matched them well: tall and long-limbed; their hair, flaxen-pale, flowed under their light helms, and streamed in long braids behind them; their faces were stern and keen.
The Uruk-Hai TTT	The sunset gilded their spears and helmets, and glinted in their pale flowing hair.
The King of the Golden Hall TTT	Their golden hair was braided on their shoulders the sun was blazoned upon their green shields, their long corslets were burnished bright, and when they rose taller they seemed than mortal men.

Lotho Sackville-Baggins

Hair:	sandy
Sources:
Three is Company FotR	After lunch, the Sackville-Bagginses, Lobelia and her sandy-haired son, Lotho, turned up, much to Frodo's annoyance.

Saruman

Eyes:	dark, black
Hair:	raven (upon arrival in Middle-earth); white with a few strands of black (in LotR)
Beard:	white with a few strands of black (in LotR)
Sources:
The Voice of Saruman TTT	His face was long, with a high forehead, he had deep darkling eyes, hard to fathom, though the look that they now bore was grave and benevolent, and a little weary. His hair and beard were white, but strands of black still showed about his lips and ears.
The Voice of Saruman TTT	He looked up at the face of Saruman with its dark solemn eyes bent down upon him, and then to Gandalf at his side; and he seemed to hesitate.
The Scouring of the Shire RotK	He drew himself up and stared at them darkly with his black eyes.
The Istari UT	The first to come was one of noble mien and bearing, with raven hair, and a fair voice, and he was clad in white; great skill he had in works of hand, and he was regarded by well-nigh all, even by the Eldar, as the head of the Order.

Sauron

Eye:	yellow, rimmed with fire
Sources:
The Mirror of Galadriel FotR	The Eye was rimmed with fire, but was itself glazed, yellow as a cat's, watchful and intent, and the black slit of its pupil opened on a pit, a window into nothing.

Shadowfax

Hair:	grey, silver
Sources:
The Council of Elrond FotR	By day his coat glistens like silver; and by night it is like a shade, and he passes unseen.
The White Rider TTT	Does he not shine like silver, and run as smoothly as a swift stream?
Helm's Deep TTT	Even as they looked he was gone: a flash of silver in the sunset, a wind over the grass, a shadow that fled and passed from sight.
The Road to Isengard TTT	Fear fell on them seeing Gandalf in the moon, and Shadowfax his horse shining like silver.
Homeward Bound RotK	And Gandalf, too, was now riding on his tall grey horse, all clad in white with a great mantle of blue and silver over all, and the long sword Glamdring at his side.
The Grey Havens RotK	Then Círdan led them to the Havens, and there was a white ship lying, and upon the quay beside a great grey horse stood a figure robed all in white awaiting them.

Swarthy Men (Easterlings)

Eyes:	dark
Hair:	dark
Sources:
Quenta Silmarillion: Of the Ruin of Beleriand and the Fall of Fingolfin Sil	These Men were short and broad, long and strong in the arm; their skins were swart or sallow, and their hair was dark as were their eyes.

Théoden

Eyes:	blue
Hair:	white
Beard:	white
Sources:
The King of the Golden Hall TTT	Upon it sat a man so bent with age that he seemed almost a dwarf; but his white hair was long and thick and fell in great braids from beneath a thin golden circle set upon his brow.
The King of the Golden Hall TTT	His beard was laid like snow upon his knees; but his eyes still burned with a bright light, glinting as he gazed at the strangers.
The King of the Golden Hall TTT	Now tall and straight he stood, and his eyes were blue as he looked into the opening sky.
The Muster of Rohan RotK	Proud and tall he seemed, though the hair that flowed beneath his high helm was like snow; and many marvelled at him and took heart to see him unbent and unafraid.
The Houses of Healing RotK	The light of the torches shimmered in his white hair like sun in the spray of a fountain, but his face was fair and young, save that a peace lay on it beyond the reach of youth; and it seemed that he slept.

Thorin Oakenshield

Eyes:	dark
Sources:
A Warm Welcome The Hobbit	The gold gleamed on his neck and waist: his eyes were dark and deep.

Thranduil

Hair:	golden
Sources:
Flies and Spiders The Hobbit	The feast that they now saw was greater and more magnificent than before; and at the head of a long line of feasters sat a woodland king with a crown of leaves upon his golden hair, very much as Bombur had described the figure in his dream.

Peregrin Took

Hair:	almost golden
Sources:
The Epilogue HoME-9	Note: There are no canonical references to Pippin's coloration. I am going to cheat a little bit and include the one reference I have found, from an early draft of Tolkien's intended Epilogue to LotR. The 'Pippin' who is speaking is Sam's son; 'Mr. Peregrin of Tuckborough' is Peregrin Took. 'Not bigger than Mr. Peregrin of Tuckborough,' said Pippin, 'and he's got hair that's almost golden. Is he Prince Peregrin away down in the Stone City, dad?'

Treebeard

Eyes:	brown, with a green light
Beard:	grey
Sources:
Treebeard TTT	These deep eyes were now surveying them, slow and solemn, but very penetrating. They were brown, shot with a green light.
Treebeard TTT	The lower part of the long face was covered with a sweeping grey beard, bushy, almost twiggy at the roots, thin and mossy at the ends.

Tulkas

Hair:	golden
Beard:	golden
Sources:
Valaquenta Sil	His hair and beard are golden, and his flesh ruddy; his weapons are his hands.

Tuor

Hair:	golden
Sources:
Of Tuor and his Coming to Gondolin UT	But the Elves cared for the infant son of Huor, and Tuor grew up among them; and he was fair of face, and golden-haired after the manner of his father's kin, and he became strong and tall and valiant, and being fostered by the Elves he had lore and skill no less than the princes of the Edain, ere ruin came upon the North.
Of Tuor and his Coming to Gondolin UT	And indeed of the kindred of Hador and Húrin I deem you; for so the gold of your head declares you.

Túrin Turambar

Eyes:	grey
Hair:	dark
Sources:
Quenta Silmarillion: Of Túrin Turambar Sil	For he was young, and only now reached his full manhood; and he was in truth the son of Morwen Eledhwen to look upon: dark-haired and pale-skinned, with grey eyes, and his face more beautiful than any other among mortal Men, in the Elder Days.
Narn I Hîn Húrin UT	He was dark-haired as his mother, and promised to be like her in mood also; for he was not merry, and spoke little, though he learned to speak early and ever seemed older than his years.
Narn I Hîn Húrin UT	Thingol looked on Túrin in wonder, seeing suddenly before him in the place of his fosterling a Man and a stranger, tall, dark-haired, looking at him with deep eyes in a white face.
Narn I Hîn Húrin UT	But if my head be dark and not golden, of that I am not ashamed.

Urwen Lalaith

Hair:	yellow
Sources:
Narn I Hîn Húrin UT	Her hair was like the yellow lilies in the grass as she ran in the fields, and her laughter was like the sound of the merry stream that came singing out of the hills past the walls of her father's house.

Voronwë

Eyes:	sea-grey
Sources:
Of Tuor and his Coming to Gondolin UT	Then the Elf turned and looked up, and Tuor met the piercing glance of his sea-grey eyes, and knew that he was of the high folk of the Noldor.