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.