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  2. List of weapons and armour in Middle-earth - Wikipedia

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    In The Hobbit, the Black Arrow was a royal heirloom used by Bard the Bowman to kill the dragon Smaug. [T 16] In The Lord of the Rings, the Red Arrow was a token used by Gondor to summon its allies in time of need. [T 17] In the Lord of the Rings film trilogy, the Red Arrow is omitted and its role is conflated with the Beacons of Gondor. [14]

  3. Bow and arrow - Wikipedia

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    Drawing a bow, from a 1908 archery manual. A bow consists of a semi-rigid but elastic arc with a high-tensile bowstring joining the ends of the two limbs of the bow.An arrow is a projectile with a pointed tip and a long shaft with stabilizer fins towards the back, with a narrow notch at the very end to contact the bowstring.

  4. Archery - Wikipedia

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    Typical arrows with three vanes should be oriented such that a single vane, the "cock feather", is pointing away from the bow, to improve the clearance of the arrow as it passes the arrow rest. A compound bow is fitted with a special type of arrow rest, known as a launcher, and the arrow is usually loaded with the cock feather/vane pointed ...

  5. Modern competitive archery - Wikipedia

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    This rope is divided into the scoring zones of the target: Gold (5 points), Red (4 points), Blue (3 points), Black (2 points) and White (1 point). The rope is 'walked' around the target area and arrows falling within a particular scoring zone are withdrawn and, on completion of the full circle, are laid out on the rope on the corresponding colours.

  6. History of archery - Wikipedia

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    Longbowmen archers of the Middle Ages.. Archery, or the use of bow and arrows, was probably developed in Africa by the later Middle Stone Age (approx. 70,000 years ago). It is documented as part of warfare and hunting from the classical period (where it figures in the mythologies of many cultures) [1] until the end of the 19th century, when bow and arrows was made functionally obsolete by the ...

  7. Native American weaponry - Wikipedia

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    Bows and arrows were used by most cultures around the world at some point or another and are at least 8,000 years old. [18] The arrow is created, similar to a spear, from a small blade (arrow tip) attached to one end of a wooden shaft. Attached to the other end are feathers that help stabilize the arrow's flight.

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