Know Your Valar: Aulë and Yavanna
It’s time to talk about more of the Valar! Today we look at another couple, Aulë and Yavanna…
Aulë
- Type: Vala
- Name meaning: “Invention”
- Other titles: “The Smith”, “The Maker of Mountains”, “Mahal” (The Maker)
- Appearance: –
- Location: Central Valinor
- Notes:
- He is a master of all crafts who fashioned and crafted the substances of which Arda was made
- He created the Dwarves
- Made the Lamps of the Valar
- Forged the vessels which hold the Sun and Moon
- Taught the Noldor Eleves about stonework
Yavanna
- Type: Vala
- Name meaning: “Giver of fruits”
- Other titles: “The Fruitful Queen of the Earth”
- Appearance: Tall as a cypress tree and clothed in green
- Location: Her gardens are in south Valinor
- Notes:
- Planted seeds of everything which grows
- She thought of the Ents
- She made the Trees of Light which lit Valinor,
- She used the last fruit of those trees was used to make the Sun and Moon
- She also made the White Tree of the Eldar in Tirion.
