What color are Arwen's eyes?

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In the non-canonical LOTR Wikia page, it lists Arwen’s eye color as “grey”. But I distinctly remember in the film her eyes being a piercing blue, most notably when she is crying after Elrond is describing how she will live long after Aaragorn is dead and there will be nothing left for her except sorrow. If anyone can find a screenshot of her eyes on that scene, please add it (I can’t find one).

Were her eyes different colors in the movies? Were they different vs JRRT’s writings?

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Were her eyes different colors in the movies? Were they different vs JRRT's writings?

Valorum · Accepted Answer

From the Fellowship of the Ring ("Many Meetings"), her eyes were described as grey:

In the middle of the table, against the woven cloths upon the wall,
  there was a chair under a canopy, and there sat a lady fair to look
  upon, and so like was she in form of womanhood to Elrond that Frodo
  guessed that she was one of his close kindred. Young she was and yet
  not so. 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.

Interestingly, despite the fact the Liv Tyler's eyes are naturally blue, in some film scenes she wore tinted lenses, presumably to accentuate the colour for the cameras.

What color are Arwen's eyes?

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