The Lord of the Rings: New Movie War of the Rohirrim – Casting Revealed!

While we are already getting a new Amazon series in Tolkien’s Middle-earth with The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power in September 2022, another exciting project is in the works: The War of the Rohirrim. It refers to an animated feature film by Warner Bros.who is the legend of Helm Hammerhand will tell. So this prequel takes place 183 years before the events of The Fellowship of the Ring, The Two Towers and The Return of the King – accordingly there are no people in the cast from the Jackson trilogy, since even Aragon was “only” 87 years old at that point. But an actress returns with a trick – Miranda Otto as Eowyn.

The cast of War of the Rohirrim

Eowyn’s return is really just a ruse – she’s simply acting as the narrator of the story. Appropriate, after all, War of the Rohirrim describes an essential history of the people of Rohan, to which Eowyn belongs. But who else plays and lends his voice (in the English original)?

• Helm Hammerhand – Brian Cox (Succession, Troy, X-Men 2)
• Wulf (the intelligent and more ruthless leader of the Dunlendings) – Luke Pasqualino (Snowpiercer, The Musketeers)
• Freca (Father of Wulf) – Shaun Dooley (The Witcher)
• hera (Daughter of Helm Hammerhand) – Gaia Wise
• Frealaf Hildesohn (future King of Rohan, after Helm Hammerhand) – Laurence Ubgon Williams

Not a picture from the War of the Rohirrim movie – but Helm Hammerhand’s brief appearance in the video game Middle-earth: Shadow of War.

Source: Warner Bros. Interactive

The following actors will also lend their voices in the English original to other roles that are not yet known: Lorraine Ashbourne (Bridgerton), Yazdan Qafouri, Benjamin Wainwright, Michael Wildman (Fast and Furious Presents: Hobbs & Shaw), Jude Akuwudike (Beasts of No Nation) , Bilal Hasna and Janine Duvitski.