Red Arrow

The Red Arrows were arrows that were used by Gondor to summon its allies in time of need.
==Description==
Its fletching was black and its barb was made of steel, and it took its name from a mark of red painted on the arrow's tip, standing for blood to show the situation was serious. The black fletching were like the Orc arrows.The Lord of the Rings, The Return of the King, Book Five, Chapter III: "The Muster of Rohan"
== History ==
First mention of the Red Arrow is when Borondir of Gondor and five other messengers rode north along Anduin to seek out Gondor's old allies, the Éothéod, when Gondor was being overrun by Easterlings, in TA 2509. Borondir was the only survivor, and presented the Red Arrow to the Éothéod King Eorl the Young.Unfinished Tales, Part Three: The Third Age, II: "Cirion and Eorl and the Friendship of Gondor and Rohan"
Later it became a summons for the Rohirrim. The Red Arrow was presented to Rohan by Hirgon, Gondor's messenger in the War of the Ring. As a result, King Théoden rode out with the Rohirrim to the Battle of the Pelennor Fields. Théoden's forces were a great aid to the hard-pressed soldiers of Gondor, though the King was slain in the battle.
It is not certain where the Red Arrow came from: it is possible that the tradition was an old one and that Gondor had always summoned its allies this way, but another possibility is that Borondir actually took an Orc arrow with a bloody tip to present to the Éothéod, to prove that the situation was as bad as his message stated.
==Translations==
Foreign Language 	Translated name
Afrikaans 	Rooi Pyl
Albanian 	Shigjeta e kuqe
Amharic 	ቀይ ቀስት
Arabic 	سهم أحمر
Armenian 	կարմիր նետ
Assamese 	ৰঙা কাঁড়
Azerbaijani 	Qırmızı Ox
Basque 	Gorria Gezi
Belarusian Cyrillic	чырвоная страла
Bengali 	লাল তীর
Bhojpuri 	लाल तीर
Bosnian 	Crvena Strelica
Bulgarian Cyrillic 	Червената стрелка
Cambodian 	ព្រួញពណ៌ក្រហម
Catalan 	Fletxa Vermella
Chinese (Hong Kong)	朱紅箭
Chinese (Mandarin) 	红箭
Corsican 	Freccia Rossu
Croatian 	Crvena Strijela
Czech 	Rudý Šíp
Danish 	Rød Pil
Dogri 	लाल तीर
Dutch 	Rode Pijl
Estonian 	Punase Noolega
Esperanto 	Ruĝa Sago
Faroese 	Reyðurørvur
French 	Flèche Rouge
Finnish 	Punainen Nuoli
Frisian 	Reade Pylk (Western)
Galician 	Frecha Vermella
German 	Roter Pfeil
Greek 	Κόκκινο βέλος
Gujarati 	લાલ તીર
Haiti Creole 	Flèch Wouj
Hausa 	Ja Mashi
Hawaiian 	ʻulaʻula Pua
Hindi 	लाल तीर
Hmong 	Liab xub
Hungarian 	Piros Nyíl
Icelandic 	Rauð Ör
Indonesian 	Panah Merah
Italian 	Freccia Rossa
Japanese 	赤い矢印
Javanese 	Panah Abang
Kazakh 	Қызыл көрсеткі (Cyrillic) Qızıl körsetki (Latin)
Kannada 	ಕೆಂಪು ಬಾಣ
Konkani 	तांबडो बाण
Korean 	빨간색 화살표
Kurdish 	Tîrekên Sor (Kurmanji)
Kyrgyz Cyrillic 	Кызыл жебе
Laotian 	ລູກສອນສີແດງ
Latin 	Rufus Sagittam
Latvian 	Sarkana Bultiņa
Lithuanian 	Raudona Rodyklė
Luxembourgish 	Roude Feil
Macedonian Cyrillic	Црвена стрелка
Malagasy 	Mena Zana-tsipìka
Malaysian 	Anak panah merah
Maltese 	Vleġġa Ħamra
Malayalam 	ചുവന്ന അമ്പ്
Maori 	Pere Whero
Marathi 	लाल बाण
Mongolian Cyrillic 	Улаан сум
Nepalese 	रातो तीर
Norwegian 	Rød Pil
Pashto 	سور غشی
Persian 	تیر سرخ
Polish 	Czerwona Strzała
Portuguese 	Flecha Vermelha
Punjabi 	ਲਾਲ ਤੀਰ
Romanian 	Sageata Rosie
Romansh 	Frizza Cotschen ?
Russian 	Красная стрела
Samoan 	Aū Mumu
Sesotho 	Khubelu Motsu
Scottish Gaelic 	Saighead Dhearg
Sindhi 	ڳاڙهو تير
Slovak 	Červený Šíp
Slovenian 	Rdeča Puščica
Somali 	Falaar Cas
Spanish 	Flecha Roja
Sundanese 	Panah Beureum
Swahili 	Kishale Nyekundu
Swedish 	Röda pilen
Tajik Cyrillic 	Cурх Ақрабаки
Tamil 	ரெட் அம்பு
Tatar 	Кызыл ук
Telugu 	ఎరుపు బాణం
Thai 	ลูกศรสีแดง
Turkish 	Kırmızı Ok
Turkmen 	Ok Gyzyl
Ukrainian Cyrillic 	Червона стрілка
Urdu 	سرخ تیر
Uyghur 	رەد ئرروۋ
Uzbek 	Қизил стрелка (Cyrillic) Qizil strelka (Latin)
Vietnamese 	Mũi tên màu đỏ
Welsh 	Saeth Goch
Xhosa 	Utolo Ebomvu
Yiddish 	רויט פייַל
Yoruba 	Pupa ọfa
Zulu 	umcibisholo -bomvu
==References==
de:Roter Pfeil
it:Freccia Rossa
pl:Czerwona Strzała
ru:Красная стрела
Category:Arrows