re: First look at Galadriel in Amazon’s The Lord of the Rings series

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They were also known as the Grey Elves, Dark Elves and Fair Elves.

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Which had nothing to do with their skin tone. Those were descriptions based on who had seen the light of the two trees in Valinor and who had not. That would be like saying the black numenorians are black because of their name. The elves are not dark skinned so the fact that they are casting dark skinned actors as elves is a joke to the source material.