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their mansions and their domain in that region which is called
Valinor. There in the Guarded Realm they gathered great store
of light and all the fairest things that were saved from the ruin;
and many others yet fairer they made anew, and Valinor
became more beautiful even than Middle-earth in the Spring of
Arda; and it was blessed and holy, for the gods dwelt there, and
there nought faded nor withered, neither was there any stain
upon flower or leaf in that land, nor any corruption or sickness
in anything that lived; for the very stones and waters were
hallowed.
$24 Therefore the Valar and all their folk were joyful again,
and for long they were well content, and they came seldom over
the mountains to the Outer Lands; and Middle-earth lay in a
twilight beneath the stars that Varda had wrought in the ages
forgotten of her labours in Ea.

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$25 And it came to pass that, after Valinor was full-
wrought and the mansions of the Valar were established and
their gardens and woodlands were arrayed, the Valar built their
city in the midst of the plain beyond the Pelori. That city they
named Valmar the Blessed. And before its western gate there
was a green mound, and it was bare save for a sward of
unfading grass.
$26 Then Yavanna and Nienna came to that Green Mound;
and Yavanna hallowed it, and sat there long upon the green
grass and sang a song of great power, in which was set all her
thought of things that grow in the earth. But Nienna thought in
silence, and watered the mould with tears. Then all the Valar
were gathered together to hearken to the song of Yavanna; and
the mound was in the midst of the Ring of Doom before the
gates of Valmar, and the Valar sat round about in silence upon
their thrones of council, and their folk were set before their feet.
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.
$27 Thus there awoke in the world the Two Trees of
Valinor, of all growing things the fairest and 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
of gold dripped from them to the ground. From those Trees
there came forth a great light, and all Valinor was filled with it.
Then the bliss of the Valar was increased; for the light of the
Trees was holy and of great power, so that, if aught was good or
lovely or of worth, in that light its loveliness and its worth were
fully revealed; and all that walked in that light were glad at