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Sirion arose on the eastern side of the Ered Wethrin, then ran south through the narrow steep-sided valley between the Ered Wethrin and the Echoriath. In this valley was an island in the river named Tol Sirion; it was here that Finrod Felegund built the first Minas Tirith. Sirion then continued south into Beleriand, with the Forest of Brethil to the west, and Dimbar and then Doriath to the east. It received the River Teiglin from the west, then continued south, receiving the River Esgalduin that passed by Menegroth and then bending to the southwest. The River Celon that arose in the Hills of Himring emptied into Sirion in a marshy area known as the Fens of Sirion.

After the Fens the river dropped in the Falls of Sirion, where it disappeared into the rock and flowed through three Tunnels of Sirion for nine miles, re-emerging below the Andram (Long Wall) from the three Gates of Sirion. The river continued south, receiving the River NarogIn the fiction of J. Tolkien, the River Narog was the chief river of West Beleriand, the largest tributary of River Sirion. It rose from the Pools of Ivrin in the Ered Wethrin, flowed south and then southeast, flowing through a gorge in a series of rapids at the Nan-Tathren (Valley of Willows) before emptying into the Bay of BalarIn Tolkien's The Silmarillion the Bay of Balar was an ocean inlet of the Belegaer south of Beleriand, fed by the river Sirion. It was presumably created in the cataclysms that accompanied the struggles of the Valar with Morgoth long before recorded histor at the Mouths of SirionMouths of Sirion is a fictional location in J. Tolkien's Middle-earth universe. It was the refuge of the remnants of Eldar and Edain of Beleriand after the Nirnaeth Arnoediad and the Sack of Menegroth. The Mouths of Sirion were home to Sindar of Doriath a.