In my latest listen of the trilogy, I've been quite curious about how the denizens of Tolkien's world remember the past. In particular, I'm a bit befuddled by Faramir's ignorance of the Battle of Gladden Fields.
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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!
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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...environment, their having it and even using it doesn't percolate out to a general knowledge and availability of the source until much later. In that context, I wouldn't be surprised that for Gondor - which after all has had bigger problems to worry about...
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