LOS ANGELES, Dec 10 — No elves, no dwarves, and not a hobbit in sight: The Lord of the Rings returns to the big screen this month with a new Japanese anime-style movie about the...
Not an elf, dwarf or hobbit in sight: ‘Lord of the Rings’ gets anime makeover with ‘War of the Rohirrim’ film
Filmmakers scoured the vast, invented histories that Tolkien wrote as footnotes for his beloved novels.“It wasn’t a case of, ‘we’ve got the story, what form of animation are we going to tell it in?’” said producer Philippa Boyens, who also co-wrote the“It was actually the opposite way around. There was something about this particular story... that felt intrinsically right for that great tradition of Japanese filmmaking that is anime.
The plot begins with ambitious Lord Freca plotting to marry his son to Hera, the daughter of the king of Rohan. Although she is central to the conflict, Tolkien did not even bother to give the princess a name in his lengthy historical footnotes.
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