Warner Bros. has released the first trailer for The Lord of the Rings: The War of the Rohirrim , an animated movie that serves as a prequel to the live-action Lord of the Rings films. The War of the Rohirrim will be released on December 13.
Set roughly 200 years before the events of The Lord of the Rings, this prequel reveals the untold story of Rohan's former ruler, Helm Hammerhand (voiced by Brian Cox). The trailer gives us a much better idea of the plot of the film, which deals with a bloody conflict between Rohan and the Dunlendings. After an arranged marriage between Helm's daughter Hèra (Gaia Wise) and the Dunland prince Wulf (Luke Pasqualino) falls through and leads to the death of Wulf's father Freca (Shaun Dooley), Wulf declares war on Rohan.
As Helm rallies his kingdom, the defiant Hèra may prove to be the only hope for Rohan's survival. The Lord of the Rings: The War of the Rohirrim also features the voice of Miranda Otto, who reprises her role as Éowyn in her role as the film's narrator. Like Prime Video's The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power , The War of the Rohirrim draws largely on J.
R.R. Tolkien's appendices from the Lord of the Rings novels, fleshing out some of the backstory and characters Tolkien created to enrich the world of Middle-earth.
But in the case of Hèra, the film is delving much deeper than Tolkien himself ever did. “In the appendices where the story is drawn from, we get these quite interestingly drawn male characters, and then we.