Harad Road

The Harad Road, or the South Road, was an ancientThe Lord of the Rings, The Two Towers, Book Four, chapter IV: "Of Herbs and Stewed Rabbit", pgs. 267-9 road that was used by the armies of Harad to come to Mordor.The Lord of the Rings, The Two Towers, Book Four, chapter III: "The Black Gate is Closed", pgs. 250, 254
==Course==
The Harad Road began at the Cross-roads of the Fallen KingThe Lord of the Rings, The Two Towers, Book Four, chapter VII: "Journey to the Cross-roads", pgs. 310-11 and ran southwards across South Ithilien,Catherine McIlwaine, Tolkien: Maker of Middle-earth, "Map of part of Gondor", pg. 389The History of Middle-earth, The War of the Ring, Part Two: "The Ring Goes East", VII: "Journey to the Cross-roads", Minas Morghul and the Cross-roads (map), pg. 181 before passing over the Crossings of Poros into South Gondor. The road then soon crossed over the ford over the Harnen and went on into HaradwaithUnfinished Tales of Númenor and Middle-earth, "The West of Middle-earth at the End of the Third Age" (map) for an untold length.The Lord of the Rings, "General Map of Middle-earth"
==History==
It is untold when the Harad Road was made, it is known that it was built by the Gondorians, though some form of the road may have been used as a trading route before Gondor was founded. The actual structure of the road itself must have been made at some point between the year 3320 of the Second Age when Gondor was founded, and the year 1050 of the Third Age when Ciryaher led a great army by land to Umbar after spending several decades making preparations. It is probable that the construction of the road may have been apart of these preparations."Harad Road" on "The Encyclopedia of Arda"
During the days of the War of the Ring, the Rangers of Ithilien under Boromir and Faramir never passed "east of the Road",The Lord of the Rings, The Two Towers, Book Four, chapter VI: "The Forbidden Pool", pgs. 300-1 though it is untold whether it was in relation to the Harad Road or the North Road of Ithilien.
On March 7 of the year 3019, an army of Haradrim that came north from the Harad Road were ambushed by Faramir and the Rangers of Ithilien near Henneth Annûn on the North Road of Ithilien. Frodo Baggins and Samwise Gamgee witnessed the battle after meeting the Rangers, but were taken captive after it.The Lord of the Rings, The Two Towers, Book Four, chapter V: "The Window on the West", pg. 277
After the Battle of the Pelennor Fields, some scouts in the Army of the West had "reported that no enemies remained upon the roads east as far as the Cross-roads of the Fallen King",The Lord of the Rings, The Return of the King, Book Five, chapter X: "The Black Gate Opens", pgs. 159-63 including on the Harad Road.
==Etymology==
Harad is the Sindarin word for "south",Parma Eldalamberon 17, "Words, Phrases and Passages in Various Tongues in The Lord of the Rings", pg. 88 (entry S harad) making the road translate to "South Road".
==Translations==
Foreign Language 	Translated name
Afrikaans 	Harad Pad
Albanian 	Rruga Harad
Amharic 	ሃራድ መንገድ
Arabic 	طريق هاراد
Armenian 	Հարադ րոադ
Assamese 	হাৰাদ ৰাস্তা
Azerbaijani 	Harad Yolu
Basque 	Harad errepidea
Belarusian Cyrillic	Харад Дарога
Bengali 	হারাদ রাস্তা
Bulgarian Cyrillic 	Път Харад
Catalan 	Carretera de Harad
Cebuano 	Harad Dalan
Chinese (Hong Kong)	哈拉德道
Corsican 	Strada di Harad
Croatian 	Harad Cesta
Czech 	Harad Silnice
Danish 	Haradvejen
Dutch 	Harad Weg
Esperanto 	Harad Vojo
Estonian 	Harad Tee
Faroese 	Haradvegurin
Finnish 	Haradin tie
French 	Route du Harad
Galician 	Estrada de Harad
German 	Harad Straße
Greek 	Χαράδ Δρόμος
Gujarati 	હરદ રોઅદ
Hebrew 	חאראד רואד
Hindi 	हरड़ रोड
Hungarian 	Harad Út
Icelandic 	Harad vegur
Indonesian 	Jalan Harad
Irish Gaelic 	Bóthar Harad
Italian 	Strada di Harad
Japanese 	ハラド道
Javanese 	Dalan Harad
Kannada 	ಹರಾದ್ ರಸ್ತೆ
Kazakh 	Харад жолы (Cyrillic) Xarad jolı (Latin)
Korean 	하라드도로
Kurdish 	ڕێگای هەراد (Sorani) Riya Harad (Kurmanji)
Kyrgyz Cyrillic 	Харад жолу
Latvian 	Harad Ceļš
Lithuanian 	Harado Kelias
Luxembourgish 	Harad Strooss
Macedonian Cyrillic	Патот Харад
Malaysian 	Jalan Harad
Malayalam 	ഹരാദ് റോഡ്
Maltese 	Triq Harad
Marathi 	हरड रस्ता
Mongolian Cyrillic 	Харад зам
Nepalese 	हरड सडक
Norwegian 	Harad Vei
Pashto 	هاراد سړک
Persian 	جاده هاراد
Polish 	Droga do Haradu
Portuguese 	Estrada da Harad
Punjabi 	ਹਰਾਦ ਸੜਕ
Romanian 	Drumul Harad
Russian 	Дорога Харад
Serbian 	Пут Харад (Cyrillic) Put Harad (Latin)
Sicilian 	Strada di Harad
Sinhalese 	හරද් මාර්ගය
Spanish 	Carretera de Harad
Sundanese 	Jalan Harad
Tajik Cyrillic 	Роҳи Харад
Tamil 	ஹராத் சாலை
Telugu 	హరాద్ రోడ్డు
Thai 	ถนนฮารัด
Turkish 	Harad Yolu
Turkmen 	Harad Ýoly
Slovak 	Harad Cesta
Slovenian 	Cesta Harad
Swahili 	Barabara ya Harad
Swedish 	Harad Väg
Ukrainian Cyrillic 	Дорог Гарад
Urdu 	ہراد روڈ
Uzbek 	Ҳарад йўли (Cyrillic) Harad yo'li (Latin)
Vietnamese 	Đường Harad
Welsh 	Ffordd Harad
Yiddish 	האַראַד וועג
==References==
Category:Roads
Category:Harad
Category:Gondor
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