I noticed it too last itme I was reading t H. to my girls.
It is true that the creation [or discovery if you will] of rnor lay some 10 years or so in the future. One can make up exscuses for it, but I basically think it is an oversight. The best possible 'in-world' explanation though is that the King was still remembered as an institution [and a mark pf a 'civilized' culture in Hobbit minds even though the Dunedain had gone underground hundreds of years before.
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The dwindling Men of the West would often sit up late into the night exchanging lore & wisdom such as they still possessed that they should not fall back into the mean estate of those who never knew or indeed rebelled against the Light.
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