The Lord of the Rings: The War of the Rohirrim is an animated prequel film set 183 years before The Hobbit, when the land of Rohan was ruled by a legendary figure named Helm Hammerhand.

The War of the Rohirrim's siege sequence isn't just Helm's Deep 2.0. Helm Hammerhand in "The Lord of the Rings: The War of the Rohirrim." Credit: Courtesy of Warner Bros. Pictures While the ...

HELM HAMMERHAND voiced by BRIAN COX in New Line Cinema’s and Warner Bros. Animation’s epic anime adventure "THE LORD OF THE RINGS: THE WAR OF THE ROHIRRIM," a Warner Bros. Pictures release.

What makes The War of the Rohirrim stand out is its entirely ... the film dives into the legend of Helm Hammerhand, the King of Rohan, and the events that turned the Hornburg into the Helm's ...

In other words, The War of the Rohirrim is spiritually very close ... First, there’s a concern that King Helm Hammerhand has come back from the dead as a kind of “wraith,” that he’s ...

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The War of Rohirrim concerns the adventures of Hera (voiced by Gaia Wise), daughter of Helm Hammerhand (Brian Cox), the Rohan king. Cox, coming off of Succession, again finds himself beset with ...

Héra in "The Lord of the Rings: The War of the Rohirrim." Credit: Courtesy of Warner Bros. Pictures Like Éowyn, Héra is the daughter of a king of Rohan: the formidable Helm Hammerhand (voiced ...