Yavanna Kementari

My take on Yavanna Kementari from the Silmarillion (Tolkien). I'm not a really huge fan of the Valar per se because, as cool and interesting as they are, I thought it was really lame how they walled themselves in and left the rest of the earth to rot under Melkor, when there was one of him and like 10 of them. At any rate, they are interesting so I enjoy drawing them. This is sort of a spin off of my favorite authors project: [link]

At any rate, I was just going to do a handful of the Valar which would include Yavanna, but since she is my favorite of the female Valar I decided to give her a solo pic. So here she is standing between the 2 trees. Silpion is waxing and Laurelin is waning. Drops are falling from Silpion and landing on Yavanna and the ground around her. Yavanna is responsible for the creation of the two trees, as well as all the plants and animals in middle earth. She is described as wearing green. I took it a step further and gave her green eyes, green lips, green nails, and green highlights in her hair. I wanted to make her look like an 'earth mother' type figure because that's essentially what she is. I think all in all the look suits her pretty well, and she will certainly appear again in my picture that features more of the Valar.