Born in the year S.A. 1174,Súrion was the third child of Tar-Anárion of Númenór. He succeeded his father in S.A. 1394, after both of his elder sisters refused the sceptre, and he ruled as Westernesse's ninth King until S.A. 1556. Tar-Súrion yielded the sceptre to his eldest child and daughter, Telperien, and died eighteen years later (S.A. 1574).