The Lord Of The Rings Anime Will Be About The Most Badass Character Tolkien Ever Wrote

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We don’t know much about The Lord of the Rings: The War of the Rohirrim as of yet. We know it’s going to be set in the kingdom of Rohan a few hundred years before the events of The Lord of the Rings. From the image revealed by Variety, we also know that the Haradrim will be involved. However, we can work out a lot of things from this information alone.

The Haradrim seem to be a major departure from Tolkien’s writings in the anime: he never wrote about battles between the Southmen and the peoples of Rohan. But they’re more exciting than Dunlendings, so I’m happy to forgive this extrapolation for the time being. We’ll get to see some animated Mûmakil because of it, and not just some fantasy Anglo-Saxons whack some other fantasy Celts. While a nuanced depiction of the Celtic-inspired Dunlendings would be great to see, it’s an area of history that has been covered in films - fantasy or otherwise - aplenty.

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But the Haradrim aren’t the point of the show, they’re just a cool enemy for our brave Rohirrim to defeat. Maybe it’ll go a bit Game of Thrones and the so-called ‘bad guys’ will be as fleshed out and complex as the heroes, but we’re really tuning in for the people of Rohan, specifically Helm Hammerhand.

You thought Aragorn was badass, leading an army of ghosts to wrest control of the ships from the Corsairs of Umbar? Or Boromir, taking three arrows in the chest to protect the Hobbits? What about Éowyn, who shouts “But no living man am I! You look upon a woman,” as she smites the Witch King of Angmar? None of these characters have anything on the Lady of Rohan’s ancestor, Helm Hammerhand.

If he sounds familiar, then you might be thinking of Helm’s