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avanna is the wife of Aulë, and she is the Giver of Fruits. She loves all things that grow in the earth, and she mourned most for the marring of Arda by Melkor and worked hardest to heal the hurts he caused. Elves and Men revere Yavanna next to Varda of the Queens of the Valar.
When she takes the form of a woman, she is tall and robed in green, but sometimes she takes other shapes. "Some there are who have seen her standing like a tree under heaven, crowned with the Sun; and from all its branches there spilled a golden dew upon the barren earth, and it grew green with corn, but the roots of the tree were in the waters of Ulmo, and the winds of Manwë spoke with its leaves." 4 She is called Kementári, Queen of the Earth.
The greatest labour of Yavanna is the creation of the Two Trees of Valinor, Telperion and Laurelin. She sang for a long time until two shoots sprang up from the mound of earth before her, Telperion being the Elder and Laurelin the Younger. Telperion had leaves of silver and gave off a silver light, while Laurelin had leaves of gold, and gave off a light of gold and radiant heat. The light of these two trees lit up Valinor and all was beautiful. After the destruction of these trees by Melkor, the light of them is found only in the Silmarils wrought by Fëanor, that are now lost to the world, one being set as a star in the heavens, one in the fires of the earth, and one in the deeps of the Sea. But for a time, the glory of the Two Trees was radiant and all who dwelt in Valinor were glad for their beauty.