Vána

Vána (Quenya; IPA: [ˈvaːna]) or defined as Beautiful). Vána was a youthful and stunning Ainu and Valië. She was tasked to uphold the beauty and charm of all her fellows in Arda. Vána was amongst the seven Valiers; she was deemed as the sixth prominent Valier. She had a sister named Yavanna and was the wife of Oromë. Vána and Melian were perhaps relatives. Vána was also referred to as "Vána the Ever-Young".

Beautiful Vána had an older sister named Yavanna, who was known as the Earth Queen. Vána had a husband named Oromë; he was the Huntsman of the Valar. [1] Her homes had green gardens full of blossoming flowers of gold. Vána frequently went to the woods of Oromë. Her sister Yavanna had lovely gardens full of flowers, the same with Vána, as they admired nature. They love seeing plants and flowers growing wonderfully. Vána took part in the natural world called Middle-Earth. She was likely connected with florals; hence she was said to be the "Queen of Flowers."

The Valar Tulkar and Nessa, the Swift got married in Valar, on the exotic island of Amaren. This is the primary living accommodation for the newlyweds. The lovely bride, Nessa, was dressed with pretty flowers courtesy of Vána. Nessa, the Swift, was Oromë’s sister. During the time of the Valinor’s Two Trees, right before Arien of the Maiar arrived to bring the Sun's ship, she helped Vána with her gardens by taking care of the golden blooms. Arien of the Maiar water the flowers with glittering dewdrops from Laurelin, the tree of gold.

Melian was also the same as Maia, who delightfully helped Vána with her fragrant gardens before leaving Middle-Earth. Following the Darkening of Valinor as well as the departure of the populace of Noldor to the central part of the earth, many Valars were happy to relish their peacetime and amity back. They hoped that neither the tittle-tattles of Melkor as well as the brutality he monstrously showed nor the agitated Noldor's chatter would ruin their harmonious province again. Hence they cried for the secrecy of their dwelling Aman. Vána was speculated to be a part of this group.

The Silmarillion aforementioned, "All flowers spring as Vána passes and opens if she glances upon them, and all birds sing at her coming." Vána dressed herself up in vibrant flowers, and a few say that her long hair was coloured gold. Vána's beauty was compared to the heavenly skies and the blossoming earth. Her face was so angelic, and everything about her was so whimsical. Nessa and Vána had the same passion for singing and dancing together with the Middle-Earth ladies.

The Maia, Arien, took care of the Sun's vessel. In the city of Valinor, she was among the Maiar. Soon after, Melian lived in the middle portion of the earth and came to be the Doriath Queen. She tied the knot with Thingol who was the King of Elves.

Vána's name possibly came from vanima, which is a Quenya term, meaning beautiful. As Vána is every so often depicted as fair. That is why she was referred to as Vána the Fair.

Vána and Aragorn may be relatives. Yavanna, Vána's sister, was told to be related to Melian, which means Vána and Melian are also relatives. Melian was an ascendant of Aragorn. Vána's connection to Aragorn may also prove her lineage with some characters. These were Elrond, Elros Luthien, and Arwen. Vána may be a relative of Melian, considering that Melian helped Vána nurture her beautiful gardens and other earth duties. Vána was so much in love with nature and was probably a Maia Aiwendil’s Vala.

Oromë and Vána were foreseen to be blessed with a charming daughter named Nieliqui. Other adaptations show that the older sisters of Vána were queens. [2] They were Yavanna and Varda. Vána portrayed an important part in the flourishing of Laurelin, the lush golden tree: "Then was the pit covered with rich earth 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 stirs abroad for the first time on a bright morning.

There she sang the song of spring upon the mound, and danced about it, and watered it with great streams of that golden light that Ulmo (Lord of All Waters) had brought from the spilled lakes--as yet was Kulullin almost o' erflowing at that time". In J.R.R. Tolkien’s past adaptations of The History of Middle-Earth, he penned that upon the destruction of Valinor’s two trees, Vána became very sad and depressed. She could not believe that her beloved Laurelin, the tree of gold, became lifeless. Vána did not lose hope, so she tried to draw together all the spilled golden light she could see.

She tried to revive the lifeless golden tree of Laurelin but she could not. Tears flowed out of Vána's tender eyes as she wrapped her arms around the tree. Vána's teardrops fell into the soil, and miraculously, a golden shoot grew bearing a wondrous fruit of glimmering gold. Valar made use of this fruit of gold to create the scorching Sun that Urwen or Arien, who was the maiden of Vána She, therefore, trail blazed up into the sky. Meanwhile, Vána cut her precious hair of gold short to repent for her past disbeliefs to make the bright Sun woven into the golden ships.

1. ^Huntsman of the Valar.
2. ^The seven Valier.