{"id":1064336,"date":"2026-01-21T01:36:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-21T01:36:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.polygon.com\/?p=494860"},"modified":"2026-01-21T01:36:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-21T01:36:08","slug":"everything-you-should-know-before-watching-lord-of-the-rings-war-of-the-rohirrim","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arcader.org\/news\/everything-you-should-know-before-watching-lord-of-the-rings-war-of-the-rohirrim\/","title":{"rendered":"Everything you should know before watching Lord of the Rings: War of the Rohirrim"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure> <img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Warrior Hela, in a long, white, ripped gown, holds a sword to an opponent\u2019s throat in The Lord of the Rings: The War of the Rohirrim\" data-caption=\"\" data-portal-copyright=\"Image: Warner Bros. Pictures\" data-has-syndication-rights=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/arcader.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/everything-you-should-know-before-watching-lord-of-the-rings-war-of-the-rohirrim.jpg\" \/><figcaption><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-none\">Shake off any misgivings you might have about <a href=\"https:\/\/www.polygon.com\/23769953\/mtg-lotr-secret-lair-bakshi-previews-card-art\">animated adaptations of J.R.R. Tolkien\u2019s work<\/a>. <em>The Lord of the Rings: The War of the Rohirrim<\/em> \u2014 based on J.R.R. Tolkien\u2019s history of Rohan, land of horse lords and shield maidens \u2014 is from a top team of Middle-earth talent, and their dedication and skills have delivered an action-filled fantasy drama <a href=\"https:\/\/www.polygon.com\/lord-of-the-rings\/492608\/war-of-the-rohirrim-movie-review-peter-jackson\">as only animation can provide<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-none\">Despite its anime stylings, courtesy of director Kenji Kamiyama and Sola Digital Arts (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.polygon.com\/reviews\/22752896\/blade-runner-black-lotus-review-anime\"><em>Blade Runner: Black Lotus<\/em><\/a>) <em>War of the Rohirrim<\/em> is from a lot of the same people who made <a href=\"https:\/\/www.polygon.com\/24156672\/polygon-book-year-of-the-ring-pre-order\">Peter Jackson\u2019s Lord of the Rings trilogy<\/a>, and the movie was explicitly designed as an expansion of that version of Tolkien\u2019s world.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-none\">That\u2019s a difficult connection to put on a movie poster, or even in a TV spot. So let us unpack how <em>War of the Rohirrim<\/em> fits into Tolkien\u2019s chronology, Jackson\u2019s movies, and your movie-watching time.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">How long is War of the Rohirrim, and does it have a post-credits scene?&nbsp;<\/h2>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-none\"><em>WotR<\/em> is surprisingly long for an animated film, running two hours and 14 minutes. But if you don\u2019t want to sit around for the movie\u2019s signature song, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DsHDUIxNX3o\">Paris Paloma\u2019s \u201cThe Rider,\u201d<\/a> or the names of all the people who worked on the film, set to the Howard Shore-inspired soundtrack, you can skip out when the credits start to roll.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-none\"><em>The War of the Rohirrim <\/em>doesn\u2019t have a post-credits or mid-credits scene, and there are no sequels on the board to tease. Unless, of course, you count the already existing Peter Jackson <a href=\"https:\/\/www.polygon.com\/24009439\/hobbit-extended-edition-blu-rays-extra-scenes\">Hobbit<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.polygon.com\/year-of-the-ring\">Lord of the Rings<\/a> trilogies, which follow this one in the timeline. See below.\u00a0<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Is War of the Rohirrim a Peter Jackson movie?&nbsp;<\/h2>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/arcader.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/everything-you-should-know-before-watching-lord-of-the-rings-war-of-the-rohirrim-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"\" data-has-syndication-rights=\"1\" data-caption=\"\" data-portal-copyright=\"Image: Warner Bros. Pictures\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-none\">Directly? No. But spiritually, visually, and in intention? Yes.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-none\"><em>The War of the Rohirrim<\/em> is a rare theatrical release for Warner Bros. Animation \u2014 best known currently for its regular releases of DC Comics adaptations, like <em>Justice League: Crisis on Infinite Earths<\/em> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.polygon.com\/2023\/12\/8\/23989032\/new-movies-watch-batman-christmas-netflix-leave-world-behind-killers-scorsese\"><em>Merry Little Batman<\/em><\/a> \u2014 but it\u2019s got Jackson Lord of the Rings DNA all through it. The scripts for Jackson\u2019s movies were co-written by him, his partner Fran Walsh, and Philippa Boyens, and Jackson and Walsh have executive producer credits on <em>The War of the Rohirrim<\/em>. Boyens is even closer to the production, with a story co-credit and producer title.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-none\">Boyens also recruited creative director Richard Taylor and artists Alan Lee and John Howe to the production, all pillars of the Jackson Lord of the Rings design team. And Kamiyama\u2019s crew took advantage of full access to W\u0113t\u0101 Workshop\u2019s archive of props and designs created for Jackson\u2019s movies.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-none\">\u201cWe didn&#8217;t want the live-action movie fan to think that it&#8217;s different,\u201d Kamiyama told Polygon, \u201cor that this is not something that they were familiar with. [\u2026] We wanted to make sure that they feel that it&#8217;s connected, and this is a connected universe.\u201d&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Is War of the Rohirrim an original story?<\/h2>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/arcader.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/everything-you-should-know-before-watching-lord-of-the-rings-war-of-the-rohirrim-2.jpg\" alt=\"Helm Hammerhand, king of Rohan, with an intricate crown and billowing white hair and beard, looks stern in The Lord of the Rings: War of the Rohirrim.\" title=\"Helm Hammerhand, king of Rohan, with an intricate crown and billowing white hair and beard, looks stern in The Lord of the Rings: War of the Rohirrim.\" data-has-syndication-rights=\"1\" data-caption=\"\" data-portal-copyright=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-none\"><em>The War of the Rohirrim<\/em> is based on Tolkien\u2019s real lore! Tolkien invented a lot of details of Middle-earth that informed <em>The Lord of the Rings<\/em> but weren\u2019t central to the books. When <em>The Return of the King <\/em>was published in 1955, he included six appendices, each digging deeper into some of that world-building.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-none\">The first appendix of <em>The Return of the King<\/em> included a history of the horse-riding peoples of Rohan, with about two pages devoted to Helm Hammerhand, the last king of Rohan\u2019s first dynasty. That\u2019s the story Boyens and her team decided to expand on for <em>The War of the Rohirrim<\/em>, featuring Helm\u2019s unnamed daughter as their main character, H\u00e9ra.<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">When in The Lord of the Rings is War of the Rohirrim set?&nbsp;<\/h2>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-none\"><em>The War of the Rohirrim<\/em> takes place about 250 years before the events of <em>The Lord of the Rings<\/em>, during the reign of Helm Hammerhand, king of Rohan. Or, to give you another kind of perspective on things: Helm\u2019s Deep, the massive mountain fortress where the climax of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.polygon.com\/lord-of-the-rings\/22690208\/lord-of-the-rings-two-towers-which-two-towers-explained\">Peter Jackson\u2019s <em>The Two Towers<\/em><\/a> takes place? That\u2019s named after Helm.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-none\">So, you won\u2019t see \u00c9owyn, Th\u00e9oden, Aragorn, or any hobbits in <em>The War of the Rohirrim<\/em>. Even so, there are a few cameos thrown in there. Speaking of which\u2026\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-none\">[<strong>Ed. note:<\/strong> Minor spoilers about a brief legacy character appearance in <em>The Lord of the Rings: The War of the Rohirrim<\/em>.]<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/arcader.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/everything-you-should-know-before-watching-lord-of-the-rings-war-of-the-rohirrim-3.jpg\" alt=\"Red-haired warrior H\u00e9ra rides a white horse in The Lord of the Rings: War of the Rohirrim.\" title=\"Red-haired warrior H\u00e9ra rides a white horse in The Lord of the Rings: War of the Rohirrim.\" data-has-syndication-rights=\"1\" data-caption=\"\" data-portal-copyright=\"Image: Warner Bros. Pictures\" \/><\/p>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Was that really Christopher Lee as Saruman?&nbsp;<\/h2>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-none\">Yes! Lee delivers a line as Saruman via an archival recording from the production of Jackson\u2019s Hobbit trilogy, used with permission from his widow, Birgit Kroencke. And it\u2019s no random cameo, either.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-none\">Saruman\u2019s appearance here is lifted straight from Tolkien\u2019s writing, which states that Rohan\u2019s long war drew concerns about its people\u2019s safety as they recovered \u2014 concerns that were allayed when Gondor invited the wisest of the council of wizards to take up residence in the long-abandoned tower of Orthanc on Rohan\u2019s western border. Saruman was still there, in Orthanc, 250 years later when he finally revealed his secret, evil ambitions, as seen in <em>The Fellowship of the Ring<\/em> (the book), and Peter Jackson\u2019s <em>The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring<\/em> (the movie).&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\" \/>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-none\"><em>The Lord of the Rings: The War of the Rohirrim<\/em> is out now in wide theatrical release.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.polygon.com\/lord-of-the-rings\/494860\/everything-you-should-know-about-war-of-the-rohirrim\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Shake off any misgivings you might have about animated adaptations of J.R.R. Tolkien\u2019s work. The Lord of the Rings: The War of the Rohirrim \u2014 based on J.R.R. Tolkien\u2019s history of Rohan, land of horse lords and shield maidens \u2014 is from a top team of Middle-earth talent, and their dedication and skills have delivered an action-filled fantasy drama as only animation can provide.\u00a0 Despite its anime stylings, courtesy of director Kenji Kamiyama and Sola Digital Arts (Blade Runner: Black Lotus) War of the Rohirrim is from a lot of the same people who made Peter Jackson\u2019s Lord of the Rings trilogy, and the movie was explicitly designed as an expansion of that version of Tolkien\u2019s world.&nbsp; That\u2019s a difficult connection to put on a&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"excerpt-more\"><a class=\"blog-excerpt button\" href=\"https:\/\/arcader.org\/news\/everything-you-should-know-before-watching-lord-of-the-rings-war-of-the-rohirrim\/\">Read More&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1064337,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1064336","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-polygon"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Everything you should know before watching Lord of the Rings: War of the Rohirrim | Arcader News<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Shake off any misgivings you might have about animated adaptations of J.R.R. 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