Posted: Oct 11, 2022 6:01 pm
by Papa Smurf
Evolving wrote:Dark skin would be evolutionarily advantageous for creatures who live underground, n'est-ce pas?


Why? As far as I know cave dwelling creatures' skins are usually white or translucent in the real world. Without some sort of explanation I would expect the same thing to be true on Arda. Dark skin is an evolutional response to exposure of bare skin to sunlight, is it not?