“Why does Mordor want the rings?” The first trailer for the animated Lord of the Rings is out

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2024-08-23 07:18:28

Studio Warner Bros. On Friday night, Pictures released the first trailer for the full-length animated film The Lord of the Rings: The War of the Rohirs, which Czech cinemas will begin showing on December 12. It takes place 261 years before the events of the famous fantasy saga and tells the story of the most famous king of Rohan, a lowland country made up mainly of meadows and pastures.



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The film The Lord of the Rings: The War of the Rohir will be shown in Czech cinemas on December 12. | Video: Warner Bros. Pictures

The protagonist named Helm Kladivo was voiced by the 78-year-old actor Brian Cox, known from the series Struggle for Power.

The authors were based on the notes of the writer JRR Tolkien to the original Lord of the Rings. And according to Variety.com, it will also try to follow up on the film trilogy of the same name from the beginning of the millennium. Actress Miranda Otto will once again lend her voice to the Rohan shieldbearer Éowyn, married to Faramir, the captain of the kingdom of Gondor, in the animated War of the Rohir. It tells the story of the founder of Helm’s Hollow, a fortress to which the inhabitants of Rohan take refuge in case of danger.

The film was shot by Japanese director Kenji Kamiyama, who is behind the animated series Blade Runner: Black Lotus and Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex.

Warner Bros. in this way, they want to build on the success of director Peter Jackson’s epic fantasy trilogy, whose feature films from 2001 to 2003 grossed almost three billion dollars, while the following Hobbit trilogy reached a similar amount. At the same time, the animated film is supposed to pave the way for other projects from the Lord of the Rings world.

Viewers began to return to it the year before last with the series Rings of Power, the second season of which will start next week in the Amazon Prime Video video library. A new live-action film will follow in 2026, in which Andy Serkis will reprise his role as Gollum while also directing. The working title of the film is The Lord of the Rings: The Hunt for Gollum.

Gollum, possessed of a magical ring, is a fictional character who first appeared in Tolkien’s fantasy novel The Hobbit, before playing a major role in the epic trilogy The Lord of the Rings. It is possible that he will also appear in the animated War of the Rohirs. Or that someone similar to her will be interested in the magic ring. “Why does Mordor want the rings?” wonders an unknown voice at the end of the first trailer.

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