A Whole New Story Featurette for ‘LOTR: War of the Rohirrim’ Anime

“This approach also allowed new stories to emerge.” Warner Bros has revealed a new story featurette for The Lord of the Rings: The War of the Rohirrim, exploring the making of this exciting new movie. This LOTR anime is produced by Peter Jackson and made in Japan by anime filmmaker Kenji Kamiyama – watch the first official trailer here. “See Brian Cox embody ‘larger-than-myth’ Helm Hammerhand, King of Rohan, in this behind-the-scenes video.” The promo features a look at the voice actors discussing the story and how it evolved over the course of making this LOTR anime. The full voice cast includes Brian Cox as Helm, Gaia Wise as Hèra, Luke Pasqualino as Wulf, Laurence Ubong Williams as Fréaláf, Shaun Dooley as Freca, Miranda Otto (returning) to narrate as Éowyn. This story focuses on the Helm’s Deep story and how it happened – introduce more characters that haven’t been in any of the other movies. I’m still super excited about this and hope it’s as good as it looks – especially for LOTR geeks like me. Defend Rohan! // Continue Reading ›