#the hair thing mostly comes down to amazon clearly displaying a lack of effort

[eruscreaminginthedistance]

I think the thing that pisses me off about the dearth of long hair is that when we do see long hair it’s never actually like, done up? Galadriel and Gil-Galad essentially had a wig slammed on their heads and called it a day.

It’s like the studio was against having creative or unique hairstyles because it would be too much effort or money or something.

If they’re worried about monotony in their characters, it’s much easier to create individual-specific looks with long hair than short. No one’s putting their hair in elaborate braids? No one’s entwining gold or silver in there? No pins, headdresses, clasps with the symbol of their house for easy visual cues? Different hair styles specific to different elven cultures? No long curly hair, no long straight hair, no long kinky hair, or hair with unique colours?

Nope, it’s just one brown, ear-length, swept back wig shared between the major players.