Curufin nodded. "It's the same in my family, in fact, in my whole clan. Nearly all of the Noldor have black hair and gray eyes. The exception is the few redheads in my family -- my paternal grandfather, my mother, and my eldest brother. But that again supports the idea of inherited traits."

"Say. . . you don't think we could be related, do you?" he said with a smile. He was joking, but who knew? -- if there could be Doors in the multiverse, then people might have been traveling for longer than anybody guessed.

And he continued to watch the handful of bright fire, and suddenly Kelson let it float upwards from his hand. "Impressive!"