Yavanna: Queen of The Earth

Added 1730199317 by PeteA71.

Personal work.

I'm a huge lifelong Tolkien devotee. The kind you don't want to be cornered by at parties.

This is the Vala, Yavanna. She's the fertility/mother goddess of Tolkien's pantheon, in all but name. She represents a feminine ideal of mine, and a celebration of renewal, and rebirth.

Here she is with the Maia of her realm of nature, greeting the fire spirit, Arien, as she steers the ship of the sun, to its first sunrise over Arda (Middle Earth).

For Maia, think Gandalf, Saruman, the Balrog of Moria, and even Sauron himself at one time. They are the people of the Valar, and enact their will. Angels, essentially.