Имеется в виду регулярный религиозный обряд, подобный здешнему. Типа молитвы перед едой или на ночь. То, что король три раза в год в праздник поднимался на Менельтарму - это, в общем, не оно.
Письмо 156 Роберту Мюррею:
They had (I imagine) no petitionary prayers to God ; but preserved the vestige of thanksgiving.
"Они не возносили молитв к Господу; но сохранили следы благодарения"
И из примечания:
The Númenóreans (and others of that branch of Humanity, that fought against Morgoth, even if they elected to remain in Middle-earth and did not go to Númenor: such as the Rohirrim) were pure monotheists. But there was no temple in Númenor (until Sauron introduced the cult of Morgoth). The top of the Mountain, the Meneltarma or Pillar of Heaven, was dedicated to Eru, the One, and there at any time privately, and at certain times publicly, God was invoked, praised, and adored: an imitation of the Valar and the Mountain of Aman. But Numenor fell and was destroyed and the Mountain engulfed, and there was no substitute. Among the exiles, remnants of the Faithful who had not adopted the false religion nor taken pan in the rebellion, religion as divine worship (though perhaps not as philosophy and metaphysics) seems to have played a small part; though a glimpse of it is caught in Faramir's remark on 'grace at meat'.
