Boromir and his search for Rivendell

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Originally Posted by The Mouth of Sauron

In the days of the last Kings of Gondor before Aragorn, namely Earnil and Earnur, Gondor sent forces to Cirdan's Havens to fight the Witch King. During that war, Glorfindel actually told the Gondor heir that the Witch King wouldn't be killed by "the hand of man".

Surely during that exchange or in subsequent conversations the location of Rivendell, Glorfindel's home at that time, would have been mentioned ? And these events were only a thousand years or so before the War of the Ring.

And even during Ecthelion's final years as Steward of Gondor Thorongil might have mentioned Elrond and Rivendell to him ?

Gondor's ignorance of Rivendell's location doesn't add up.

I doubt that Aragorn would have revealed the location of Rivendell, given that he himself was present in disguise. Otherwise, 1,000 years before in the time of Earnur is a long ways back. Certainly with the failure of the Kings, this kind of information would be unlikely to be well known.

Denethor of course did know of Elrond and Rivendell, just not where they were exactly...