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Originally Posted by Gavynn
But if it is an actual glow they have, and they cannot turn it off, it would make it harder for them to hide and such...
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In the books, they never seem to have problems to hide because of the glow; whole caravans of Elves travelled through the forests of the Middle-Earth to the Grey Havens without anybody seeing or hearing them.
I Interpret the light of Aman as being too faint to see unless you know what to look for, and even the only if the Elf in question wants to be seen. In short, a poetic metaphor; unrealistic but very beautiful and inspiring. I'd wouldn't take it very literally.
By the way, Gavynn: great work with all the templates. Do you have acess to ICE's Middle-Earth Role Playing game? It has descriptions and racial rules for all the races and sub-races of elves, humans and orcs. They should be very easy to convert to GURPS. I don't have my book with me at the moment, so I can't give you specific details, but if you are serious about converting LOTR to GURPS and can find a cheap one at eBay, it would help you a lot. And the (very generic and rules-light) supplements are just beautiful. Get as many as you can ;-)
Cheers,
M.