Vána

Vána (Quenya; IPA: - "Beautiful One") is an Ainu and a Valië who was responsible for the preserving of the youth made for all life in Arda. She was considered a rank of six among the Queens of the Valar. She was known as Vána the Ever-Young.

Biography
Vána was the younger sister of the Valië Yavanna and the wife of Oromë the Huntsman of the Valar. She dwelt in gardens filled with golden flowers and often came to the forests of her husband. In the Days of the Two Trees of Valinor, the Maia Arien, before she came to carry the Vessel of the Sun had served Vána, tending to the golden flowers of the gardens of Vána by watering them with the bright dews from the great golden Tree Laurelin. Melian was another Maia who initially served Vána before she departed and lived in Middle-earth.

After the Darkening of Valinor and the flight of the Noldor to Middle-Earth, most of the Valar were glad to have their ancient peace back, wishing neither the rumors of Melkor and his violence nor the murmur of the restless Noldor to come upon them again. Thus for such reasons, they clamored for the concealment of their land Aman. It was said that Vána was one among them.

Etymology
The name Vána may have been derived from the Quenya word vanima ("beautiful"), as she is often described as "fair". Hence she was also known as Vána the Fair.

Character
According to The Silmarillion, "All flowers spring as she passes and open if she glances upon them; and all birds sing at her coming." Vána robed herself in flowers and she had the beauty of both heaven and earth upon her face and in all her works. Also it was said that her hair was golden in color.

In The History of Middle-earth, Tolkien wrote that even when the spells of Vána's sister Yavanna failed to heal the wounds of the Two Trees, Vána's love for the great golden Tree Laurelin was so great that it caused the tree's remaining power to blossom in the form of a fruit of gold from which the Valar later fashioned in the making of the Sun.

Maiar of Vána

 * Arien, the Maia who guided the Sun, was one of her Maiar in Valinor.


 * Melian, who later in Middle-earth became Queen of Doriath by marrying the Elf-King Thingol.

Other versions of the legendarium
Vána and her husband Oromë were once envisioned to have had a daughter named Nielíqui.

In another material, Vána was the younger sister of Varda and Yavanna.

Vána played a formative role in the growth of great Tree Laurelin: "Then was the pit covered with rich earths that Palúrien (Yavanna) devised, and Vána came who loveth life and sunlight and at whose song the flowers arise and open, and the murmur of her maidens round her was like to the merry noise of the folk that stir abroad for the first time on a bright morning. There sang she the song of spring upon the mound, and danced about it, and watered it with great streams of that golden light that Ulmo had brought from the spilled lakes--yet was Kulullin almost o'erflowing at the end."

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