Tar-Ardamin

Tar-Ardamin (Quenya; [taˈrardamin]) or Ar-Abattârik is sometimes listed in the list of rulers of Númenor but is sometimes omitted. He was the son of King Tar-Calmacil, and if he is counted as one of the rulers, then he is the nineteenth in the line of kings.
== Biography ==
Privately, his followers called him by his Adûnaic language name: Ar-Abattârik. Tar-Ardamin was the last to follow the practice of using an official Quenya name. His son Ar-Adûnakhôr then abandoned the old traditions, and began officially using the Adûnaic form of his name.
==Etymology==
In Adûnaic, Ar-Abattârik means "Pillar of the World". Ardamin contains the Quenya word Arda ("world"); the element min usually means "one" but in this name, it might also be understood as "pillar" or "tower" (cf. Sindarin minas "tower").
== Behind the Scenes ==
Tar-Ardamin is omitted in the list of rulers of Númenor in Appendix A of The Lord of the Rings, but is mentioned briefly in Unfinished Tales. J.R.R. Tolkien's son Christopher, who compiled and edited Unfinished Tales, speculates in an endnote to the chapter The Line of Elros: Kings of Númenor that Tolkien may have had a reason behind the omission that he never elaborated on.
==Translations==
Foreign Language 	Translated name
Arabic 	طار-أردامين
Bulgarian Cyrillic	Тар-Ардамин
Danish 	Tar-Ardamin (19. konge af Númenor)
Hebrew 	טאר ארדאמין
Japanese 	タル＝アルダミン
Persian 	تار-آردامین
Russian 	Тар-Ардамин
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