The Lord of the Rings series is heading towards its second season, but it is not the only Middle-earth project returning to JRR Tolkien’s fantasy world in 2024. The film will also be released in cinemas at the end of the year The Lord of the Rings: The War of the Rohirrim, which is supposed to tell Rohan’s back story in a lot of battles. We will give you all the information below:
When does the animated Lord of the Rings movie War of the Rohirrim start?
The originally planned launch of The Lord of the Rings: The War of the Rohirrim was in April 2024, but was postponed again due to competing projects. Now the Lord of the Rings film has a German cinema release December 12, 2024. We’re a day ahead of the US audience. Warner Bros. is once again on board as the distributor, the studio that already brought Peter Jackson’s Lord of the Rings and Hobbit trilogy to the cinema.
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The Lord of the Rings 2: Eomer and his Rohirrim
The Lord of the Rings film War of the Rohirrim, announced in 2021, is something completely new in the world of Tolkien adaptations: The Middle-earth adventure is for the first time Anime, a Japanese animated film that is also an American and British co-production. The animated adventure has nothing to do with the new live-action films for Lord of the Rings characters announced in 2023.
Plot: What is the new Lord of the Rings animated film about?
The Lord of the Rings anime The War of the Rohirrim is supposed to be set in the Third Age of Middle-earth like Peter Jackson’s films, but about 200 years before Frodo’s time. The focus is on the warlike Horsemen of Rohan, whose residents are also known as Rohirrim. So we are dealing with the ancestors of Théoden, Éomer and Éowyn.
Sitting on Rohan’s throne at this time King helmet hammer hand. In Helm’s time, a superior force of the Dunlending people attacks Rohan, led by a certain Lord Wulf. He seeks complete destruction of Rohan as revenge for his father’s death. Helms Daughter Hera leads the resistance against this attack. The Rohirrim must seek refuge in the fortress of Hornburg, which lies in the gorge that later becomes known as Helm’s Deep. (The big battle also took place there in the film The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers.)
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The Lord of the Rings 2: Helm’s Deep with the Hornburg
Just like Season 2 of the Lord of the Rings series, The War of the Rohirrim will see a reunion with Oliphants again. This time the huge elephant creatures are once again fighting on the opposite side.
First pictures of the new Lord of the Rings prestory
There are currently no scenes for The Lord of the Rings: The War of the Rohirrim, but there are Concept artwhich illustrates the scale on which the animated film wants to come to life in Tolkien’s world:
At the Annecy Film Festival, which annually focuses on animated films, the first epic glimpses of scenes were shown in summer 2023 and provoked euphoric reactions “100% consistent with the original trilogy“ praised.
Lord of the Rings Cast & Crew: This is the new cast of War of the Rohirrim
Behind the scenes is the new Lord of the Rings team Director Kenji Kamiyama (Blade Runner – Black Lotus, Ghost in the Shell: SAC_2045).
The War of The Rohirrim is not only supposed to visually adhere to Peter Jackson’s Lord of the Rings version, but also has several creative people from the old fantasy trilogy on board. In addition to the film companies New Line Cinema and Warner Bros. The following participants also return:
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Rohan with Peter Jackson (The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers)
These speakers bring War of the Rohirrim to life
Some of the new characters in the animated Lord of the Rings epic have famous speakers. Where the roles are already known, we have written them down for you:
It is not yet known who will do the voices in the German dubbing.
When will the first trailer for The Lord of the Rings: The War of the Rohirrim come out?
Warner has not yet announced a date for the first trailer release of the Lord of the Rings film. Normally a movie releases its trailer about six months before its theatrical release, but larger projects also prefer to release it earlier. So we calculate approximately Summer 2024 with first video insights.
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