This is why I'd like there to be a Silmarillion film (or several). Jackson would alter the hell out of it, but he'd at least make it interesting.
I think the Elven colourblindness might be a result of their early years and the story cosmology. They woke up under starlight, the only greater light source being the Two Trees which were way the hell over in Valinor and which, from the description, seem to have washed everything in gold or silver during the apex of their brightness. After the Trees were destroyed, everything was in a sort of eternal twilight until the Sun and Moon were made. So it could be that for the first 5000-odd years of their existence, there weren't a lot of colours for them to use. And of course those that came later would pay homage to this period.
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I think the Elven colourblindness might be a result of their early years and the story cosmology. They woke up under starlight, the only greater light source being the Two Trees which were way the hell over in Valinor and which, from the description, seem to have washed everything in gold or silver during the apex of their brightness. After the Trees were destroyed, everything was in a sort of eternal twilight until the Sun and Moon were made. So it could be that for the first 5000-odd years of their existence, there weren't a lot of colours for them to use. And of course those that came later would pay homage to this period.