Spring of Arda

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| event=Spring of Arda
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| date=1,900 years after the [[Valar]] came to [[Arda]]
| location=[[Arda]]
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| partof=[[Years of the Lamps]]
| participants=[[Valar]], [[Maiar]]
| description=Time period in which Arda first became inhabited by animals and plants
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The '''Spring of Arda''' began 1,900 years after the [[Valar]] came to [[Arda]], after [[Illuin]] and [[Ormal]] had been raised. In that time Arda became filled with trees and herbs, beast and birds, and all the lands were green. In the midmost of Arda was the Isle of [[Almaren]] in the [[Great Lake]] where, due to the blending of the light of the [[Two Lamps]] all things were richest in grown and fairest in hue, and there the Valar made their abode and rested.<ref>{{MR|P2a}}, p. 52</ref>

Yet beyond the [[Walls of Night]] [[Morgoth|Melkor]] lurked. [[Manwë]] ordained a great feast in the 3,400th year at which [[Tulkas]] wed [[Nessa]]. Afterwards Tulkas slept and Melkor, seeing his chance, passed into the North of [[Middle-earth]] and began the delving of his vast fortress [[Utumno]]. The Spring of Arda was marred as living things became sick, or rotted, or corrupted into monstrous forms. In the 3,450th year Melkor came forth in war and threw down the [[Lamps of the Valar]], breaking the lands, roiling the seas, and ending the Spring of Arda.<ref>{{MR|P2a}}, p. 53</ref>

The destruction of the Lamps brought relative darkness to [[Middle-earth]] for several centuries, a period known as the [[Sleep of Yavanna]].

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Sleep of Yavanna

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| event=Sleep of [[Yavanna]]
| othernames=
| date=[[Years of the Trees]]
| location=[[Arda]]
| result=
| partof=[[Years of the Trees]]
| participants=[[animals]] and [[plants]]
| description=An event in which the creations of Yavanna fell silent for ages
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The '''Sleep of Yavanna''' is a cosmological event in [[Arda]].

In very ancient times, the [[Valar]] set up two great [[Two Lamps|Lamps]] in the north and south of the World, and settled on the island of Almaren in [[Middle-earth]]. Living things throughout the World began their first growth, and so that time was known as the [[Spring of Arda]]. However, [[Morgoth|Melkor]] destroyed the Lamps and the dwellings on Almaren, driving the Valar away from Middle-earth and into the West. The living things of Middle-earth were left in darkness, and so [[Yavanna]] protected them by setting them to sleep until light should come again. That happened many centuries later, after the [[Darkening of Valinor]] and the loss of the [[Two Trees]], when the rising of the [[Sun]] finally returned light to Middle-earth.

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Spring of Arda

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