Whether he did stick with it I can't say, of course. But I think a case can be argued that he did.
Tar-Minyatur was King of Númenor the physical place, yes, but he was also High King of the Edain. That is, all the Edain of the Three Kindreds who survived the First Age moved to Númenor and accepted his rulership, so he was as much their Tár as Fingolfin was Tár of the Noldor in Exile. (And as grandson of Tuor and great-grandson of Beren he was descended from the leaders of all three Houses.)
And the later rulers of Númenor certainly seemed to think they had a manifest destiny to be the rulers of all of humanity,too... :)
As for Finwë; Tolkien wrote in the Etymologies that Tár was his formal title; but presumably the Quenya word haran already existed then, even before the Exiles founded their territorial kingdoms. So as a speculation, perhaps it was simply an alternative word meaning 'lord' or 'chieftain' in those days, until the returning Ãoldor realised they needed a word to use as the formal title for their newly-appointed kings?
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Date: 2013-06-03 09:36 pm (UTC)Tar-Minyatur was King of Númenor the physical place, yes, but he was also High King of the Edain. That is, all the Edain of the Three Kindreds who survived the First Age moved to Númenor and accepted his rulership, so he was as much their Tár as Fingolfin was Tár of the Noldor in Exile. (And as grandson of Tuor and great-grandson of Beren he was descended from the leaders of all three Houses.)
And the later rulers of Númenor certainly seemed to think they had a manifest destiny to be the rulers of all of humanity,too... :)
As for Finwë; Tolkien wrote in the Etymologies that Tár was his formal title; but presumably the Quenya word haran already existed then, even before the Exiles founded their territorial kingdoms. So as a speculation, perhaps it was simply an alternative word meaning 'lord' or 'chieftain' in those days, until the returning Ãoldor realised they needed a word to use as the formal title for their newly-appointed kings?