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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...is pure invention, confused or just plain wrong. Events happen in the wrong reigns of emperors, crucial events are just skipped because Bede doesn't know they happened, and so on. Faramir, of course, is not Bede - but a Bede-like figure was probably his teacher.
So he may well have learned from a history wherein 'Isildur became king, but then went north and returned not. Then Meneldil became king and he did XYZ thing" The lacuna might not even be noted as such. Bede sure doesn't.
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Much appreciation. Related question (and it may be that you've engaged with this in other settings); while Tolkien offers tremendous sense of the age of the Middle Earth, we don't necessarily get a sense of whether there were "ancients" in the way we think of them now.
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To boil down an excessively complex question; should we think of, say, the Numenoreans as simply rich medievals, or should we think of them as Romans? It feels like the former, but I could be convinced of the latter.
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