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Sírien Súlimë
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People
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Men (Númenóreans)
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Time Period
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F.A. 569 - S.A. 419
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Gender
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Female
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Parents
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Unknown
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Unknown
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Notes
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(N) = non-canon
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Sírien Súlime (Q. "River-daughter of the wind") (F.A. 569 - S.A. 419) was the first Queen of Númenor as the wife of Elros Tar-Minyatur.
Sírien was born at the close of the First Age, born during the War of Wrath itself. She was from a fine and proud family of the Edain, though all were living in hard times, with the war for the fate of Beleriand being fought at the time. Like many women of the Edain, she threw herself into healing, and became a master at treating soldiers wounded on the field of battle, being able to perform basic surgery as an apprentice. It was here that she met Elros the Half-elf, son of Eärendil and Elwing, and they fell in love.
At the close of the First Age, Sírien, a woman of twenty-one years, was granted a very long life after the Edain petitioned the Valar for long life (among other rewards), which Eru granted to them. Yet she was still mortal, and for this reason Elros decided to marry her and take the choice of mannish mortality over elven immortality. She and Elros thus sailed to Númenor and established the island kingdom together. She spent much of her life making several hypotheses about the source of disease and illness, and how it could be prevented. It is in part due to Sírien that it is so widely known among men of the West that a true king or queen should have the hands of the healer, for she too established the very first healing houses on the isle and was well known for her compassion as she treated patients herself. However, she could not finish her studies on the nature of illness due to her duties as queen, and because the people of the island preferred her to be more a figurehead than a scholar, although she did pass on her interests to her daughter-in-law Lenneleth.