Silmariën
Silmariën (born Second Age 521) was the first child of Tar-Elendil, the fourth King of Númenor. Because of the law of agnatic primogeniture, she could not succeed her father and instead her brother took up the Sceptre as Tar-Meneldur.
Silmariën wed Elatan of Andúnië, and in honor of their son Valandil, her father created the royal title of Lord of Andúnië. Thus her heirs became a royal line of Númenor, and centuries later they led the Faithful to Middle-earth to found the Kingdoms of Arnor and Gondor. Aragorn, the hero of the War of the Ring, is her direct descendant through many generations.
For unknown reasons Tar-Elendil gave his eldest daughter the Ring of Barahir, as opposed to her brother, the heir to the Sceptre. Silmariën also was given a mithril fillet, though it is not recorded by whom. The fillet would become part of the Elendilmir, a sign of royalty in Númenor and later the crown of the Kingdom of Arnor.
Silmariën's name is difficult to translate, but might be a feminine contraction of "Captured Light" in Quenya (from silima = the miraculous material that the Silmarils were made of, and -iën = feminine suffix).
Genealogy
Tar-Elendil
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SILMARIËN = Elatan Isilmë Tar-Meneldur = Almarian
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Valandil Tar-Aldarion