Covenant's eye colour

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Covenant's eye colour

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Hi all, I'm back yet again, as time has rolled around for my yearly read through the Chronicles. I have a question , hopefully, someone here will know the answer. Are we ever told in any of the books what colour are Covenant's eyes? I always think of them as 'grey' but I'm thinking I just got that from , "grey, gaunt man"

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I believe, if I recall correctly, that they are described as grey. But I could be wrong...
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some of the descriptions vary a bit, but I believe that they all insinuate some shade of grey
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Grey?

Steel :P

(If it isn't, it should be.)
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on page 79 pg of TIW;

". . . she [Elena] resembled someone he had once known. This impression was both heightened and denied by her eyes. They were grey like his own."
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That would seem to settle the question. :)
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Blant Grey?
Silvery grey?
Mottled Grey.
Faded grey.
Solid Grey.
Translucent Grey?


Come on!! What type of grey!!!
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:lol:
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The grey of a cloudy morning, or perhaps gunmetal grey. Isn't silvery grey just silver? Wouldn't it be handy if all color descriptions could reference the Crayola standard, to give us a better idea of what color they meant?

As an aside, my eyes are blue mixed with grey - so you apparently get the Civil War when you look at me.

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Puissant and unambergrised grey.
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". . . his eyes were the grey of an macilent gravid caballine . . ."
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Also, Anglocentrism!

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But they are universals.
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Syl wrote:But they are universals.
Yes, but what you call blue, some cultures call green. What you call orange, some call red.

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That's why the Crayola standard should be forced upon everyone, like a Tranquil Hegemony of color names...

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yep..they are grey..and Elena is described as having the same grey eyes as him.
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emotional leper wrote:Yes, but what you call blue, some cultures call green. What you call orange, some call red.
Oh, you mean like orange hair?

Umm, er, wait a minnute...
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