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In Númenor, around the great Haven Eldalondë the Green, grew the mighty golden tree malinornë, reaching after five centuries a height scarce less that it achieved in Eressëa itself. Its bark was silver and smooth, and its boughs somewhat upswept after the manner of the beech; but it never grew save with a single trunk. Its leaves, like those of the beech but greater, were pale green above and beneath were silver, glistering in the sun;,in the autumn they did not fall, but turned to pale gold. In the spring it bore golden blossom in clusters like a cherry, which bloomed on during the summer; and as soon as the flowers opened the leaves fell, so that through spring and summer a grove of malinorni was carpeted and roofed with gold, but its pillars were of grey silver. Its fruit was a nut with a silver shale; and some were given as a gift by Tar-Aldarion, the sixth King of Númenor, to King Gil-galad of Lindon. They did not take root in that land; but Gil-galad gave some to his kinswoman Galadriel, and under her power they grew and flourished in the garded land of Lothlórien beside the river Anduin, until the High Elves at last left Middle-earth; but they did not reach the height or girth of the great groves of Númenor.
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In Númenor, around the great Haven Eldalondë the Green, grew the mighty golden tree malinornë, reaching after five centuries a height scarce less that it achieved in Eressëa itself. Its bark was silver and smooth, and its boughs somewhat upswept after the manner of the beech; but it never grew save with a single trunk. Its leaves, like those of the beech but greater, were pale green above and beneath were silver, glistering in the sun;,in the autumn they did not fall, but turned to pale gold. In the spring it bore golden blossom in clusters like a cherry, which bloomed on during the summer; and as soon as the flowers opened the leaves fell, so that through spring and summer a grove of malinorni was carpeted and roofed with gold, but its pillars were of grey silver.
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The housing project of Lorien. A smooth grey trunk that rises straight to a great height, where a spray of limbs come out all at the same level. These sweep out then up, forming the perfect support for a "flet", the foundation of a tree-house.
This is a puny little immature one. My fractal rendering algorithm tends towards force of the brute variety, so a mature one would have blown my 'puter's swap space and thrashed the hard drive for weeks just to generate the POVray file. 
Described in Unfinished Tales/A Description of the Island of Númenor.
In Númenor, around the great Haven Eldalondë the Green, grew the mighty golden tree malinornë, reaching after five centuries a height scarce less that it achieved in Eressëa itself. Its bark was silver and smooth, and its boughs somewhat upswept after the manner of the beech; but it never grew save with a single trunk. Its leaves, like those of the beech but greater, were pale green above and beneath were silver, glistering in the sun;,in the autumn they did not fall, but turned to pale gold. In the spring it bore golden blossom in clusters like a cherry, which bloomed on during the summer; and as soon as the flowers opened the leaves fell, so that through spring and summer a grove of malinorni was carpeted and roofed with gold, but its pillars were of grey silver.
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