With the reveal of 20 minutes of footage from The Lord of the Rings: The War of the Rohirrim, we got our first look at Brian Cox’s Helm Hammerhand, an ancient King of Rohan. The movie takes place about 200 years before Bilbo first came to find the One Ring and the events of The Hobbit.

The animated film is directed by anime legend Kenji Kamiyama, and tells the story of the conflict between Rohan, a kingdom featured in the original movie trilogy, and the Dunleding. The war forces Helm and his kingdom to take refuge in a fortress that will eventually bear his name, Helm’s Deep.

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