...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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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.
I think the mythological setting here gets tricky - especially since technology in the Silmarilion doesn't necessarily progress forward. But it's hard for me not to notice that a lot of Gondor feels Byzantine (including their mobilization system: https://acoup.blog/2020/01/10/collections-gondor-heavy-infantry-kit-review/ … )
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Which might imply that Numenor is something closer to Rome. The oddity is that the chronological distance is actually greater. Numenor isn't 1,000 years in the past for Faramir, but 3,000 years.
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Though honestly, something closer to Hesiod's conception of the 'Age of Heroes' might be more appropriate for essentially all of the First and Second Age lore, when viewed from T.A. 3000 or so.
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