Creation of the Two Trees of Valinor Event Type: General Age
Begins: Pre-Trees Age Ends: Time of the Trees Years: 3500 ~ 1495
3500 in the Year of the Valar - "Then Yavanna and Nienna came to
that Green Mound; and Yavanna hallowed it, and sat therelong
upon the green grass and sang a song of great power, in whih was
set all her thought of things that grow in the earth. But Nienna
thought in silence, and watered the mound with tears... "...And
as the gods watched, behold! upon the mound there sprang two
green saplings, and they grew and became fair and tall, and they
came to blossom." "Thus there awoke in the world the Two Trees
of Valinor, of all growing things the fairest and the most
renowned, whose fate is woven with the fate of Arda. The elder
of the Trees was named Telperion, and its blossoms were of
shining white, and a dew of silver light was spilled from them.
Laurelin the younger Tree was called; its green leaves were
edged with gold, and its flowers were like to clusters of yellow
flame, and a rain o