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Valinor is the home of the Valar (singular Vala), spirits that often take humanoid form, sometimes called "gods" by the Men of Middle-earth. [T 11] Other residents of Valinor include the related but less powerful spirits, the Maiar, and most of the Elves. [T 12] Each Vala has his or her own region of the land.
The Two Trees of Valinor lit Valinor; the rest of Arda was dark. The Valar moved to the new continent of Aman and built the Kingdom of Valinor. Yavanna made the Two Trees, named Telperion (giving silver light) and Laurelin (golden light). [9] The Trees illuminated Valinor, leaving Middle-earth in darkness.
The Two Trees of Valinor, in this context, align with the "feminine" Ash tree of Uisnech, and the "masculine" Lia Fáil, the standing stone on the hill of Tara. Lastly, the dews of Telperion and the rains from Laurelin that served "as wells of water and of light" match up, according to Barnfield, with Connla's Well and the Well of Segais .
J. R. R. Tolkien built a process of decline and fall in Middle-earth into both The Silmarillion and The Lord of the Rings.. The pattern is expressed in several ways, including the splintering of the light provided by the Creator, Eru Iluvatar, into progressively smaller parts; the fragmentation of languages and peoples, especially the Elves, who are split into many groups; the successive falls ...
[T 8] This continued until they were destroyed by the evil giant spider Ungoliant and the first Dark Lord, Melkor, leaving only a flower and a fruit which became the Moon and the Sun for Middle-earth. [T 9] The Tolkien scholar Matthew Dickerson writes that the Two Trees are "the most important mythic symbols in all of the legendarium". [4]
The Old Straight Road allows the Elves to sail from Middle-earth to Valinor.. The Old Straight Road, the Straight Road, the Lost Road, or the Lost Straight Road, is J. R. R. Tolkien's conception, in his fantasy world of Arda, that his Elves are able to sail to the earthly paradise of Valinor, realm of the godlike Valar.
Darkening of Valinor, the destruction of the Two Trees of Valinor in the fictional universe of J. R. R. Tolkien's Middle-earth; Gravity darkening, an astronomical phenomenon; Hydrogen darkening, a physical degradation of the optical properties of glass
Summoned by the Valar, many Elves abandon Middle-earth and the eastern continent for the West, Valinor, where the Valar concentrate their creativity. There they make the Two Trees, their greatest joy because they illuminate the beauty of Valinor and delight the Elves. [T 4] At Melkor's instigation the evil giant spider Ungoliant destroys the Trees.