I have a question about historical memory in Tolkien, and I'm wondering a bit whether @BretDevereaux can answer it.
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...really disjointed biographies (esp. Plutarch) because while there *were* narrative sources for these important battles, they don't survive. And that's with a fairly complete reckoning of all of the material that made it out of the classical past.
Faramir's situation is worse: maybe the information exists, but it's in Rivendell (a long way away) and it may be in a language that few in Gondor speak. Getting that information means sending someone all the way to Rivendell - hardly a safe journey, as we see!
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And then probably getting it copied down into text, and getting that back to Minas Tirith for the production of further copies. Hard in a world as disconnected as Middle Earth, where the knowledge of the Dunedain in the North is mostly cut off from the south.
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You can get a sense of how this might go a bit when I talked about the 'rediscovery' of Tacitus' Germania: https://acoup.blog/2020/02/14/collections-the-fremen-mirage-part-iiib-myths-of-the-atreides/ … Because it was never really lost - we think there are a few medieval monks who know they have copies of it. But in the limited information...
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