About short hair elves

I'm going to address the elephant in room, here, on the subject of elves and short hair in the universe of RoP that we have seen thus far.

Basically, we have learned a couple things about elves in this universe in a broad sense: some elves are not white, and some elves have short hair.

I think that once you introduce diverse (non-white) elves, you naturally introduce the subject of non-white hair. So - do you make some other elves also have short hair, to make the short-haired diverse elves fit in more? Or do you keep long hair for all elves, and work on solutions to long styles for those diverse actors?

I think long hair styles for non-white elves would've been a very interesting thing to see. But I can also imagine that - like beards for female dwarves - it could open up a lot of other debates the producers didn't necessarily want to, or weren't prepared to, have.

It may be that making other elves have short hair was simply the easier choice.

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