I think a better case can be made that Aragorn's account of events is the
second most important source that Tolkien had to draw upon after that of the
hobbits themselves. (And Legolas was third in my opinion, though there is less
support for this.)
Aragorn is followed by the narrator at Helm's Deep, as I will point out next
week. Aragorn is the one followed in Boromir's Departure, and we will follow
him into the Last Debate. And Aragorn speaks Rohirric, while Gimli and Legolas
do not.
Since in the Prologue's note on Shire Records we see that even the
hobbit-written source texts are from Gondor (for the most part), it seems
reasonable to guess that other Gondorian texts that detail the exploits of the
founding king of the house of Telcontar would be Tolkien's most important
secondary
texts.
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"You can't even imagine a totally new morality...Try to imagine a society where honesty and justice and courage and self-control and faith and hope and charity are evil, and lying and cheating and stealing and cowardice and betrayal and addiction and despair and hate are all good. You just can't do it."
"Didn't Milton have a line for that? 'Evil be thou my good!'"
"Yes, that was Satan's line, in Paradise Lost. The society we're trying to imagine does exist after all--in hell."