I have a question about historical memory in Tolkien, and I'm wondering a bit whether @BretDevereaux can answer it.
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Now, to be sure there is only one survivor, but his account reaches Rivendell and find its way into the lore of Arnor.
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So, I have thoughts. I think the first thing we want to be thinking here is in terms of a medieval, rather than modern information environment. Tolkien's timeline is mythic in scope, but even allowing for some exaggeration there, the battle is very much out of living memory.
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Yes and no; Elrond is there! Someone could just ask him! He seems friendly enough.
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And it's the gaps that are odd to me. Faramir and Boromir know a great deal about Isildur and Anarion. Boromir knows that Isildur lurked about Minas Tirith for a while educating his nephew!
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So getting details on the battle requires - for Gondor at least - getting documents on it. And the documentary tradition (maybe a report from Rivendell at some point) is likely, thousands of years later, to exist only in fragments.
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