The Battle of Gladden Fields is a BFD; Isildur is killed, the Ring is lost, the cream of Arnor's elite are killed. And yet on several occasions Gondorians profess near-ignorance of the battle.
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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.
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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...that keeping the exact history of the northern kingdom straight just wasn't the top priority. And by the time you realize the information chain is broken, it's too late to repair. In Unfinished Tales, even Saruman and Sauron struggle to get good information on Gladden.
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