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Does anyone know the correct translation of "ion"?
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In Quenya, -ion is one of two plural genitive suffixes (the other is -ron). For example,
macili ohtarion means
warriors' swords. But this is not -ion's only meaning, as Ardalambion shows us:
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SON yondo (male descendant), also short form yón (Yón referring to Jesus as "the Son" in the source); dative i yondon "to the Son" in VT43:36-37. Cf. also the suffix -ion, e.g. Finwion "son of Finwë". Vocative yonya *"my son", a contraction of *yondonya. (The forms vô, vondo "son" in LT2 are certainly obsolete, as are the notions there recorded that yondo meant "(great) grandson" and that yô-, yond- "son" was used only in poetry. But LT2 does confirm that -ion was "very common...in patronymics".) SON OF THE DARK (= Morgoth) morion -YO, VT44:12, 17, VT43:36-37, MR:217, LR:61, LT2:336, 344, LT1:260 cf. FS
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So -ion can mean "son of". I hope that cleared up any confusion.