War of the Rohirrim Visual Companion Exclusive Sneak Peek

[@NerdoftheRings]

Check out the Visual Companion: amzn.to/3Umaj3i

[@Micaht7v]

@@NerdoftheRings Thank you, I will definitely be using these links

[@Torfin2001]

It's pretty cool we will listen Christopher Lee's voice again as Saruman through archival material. Lee's voice is just too badass to even think about replacing it

[@Enerdhil]

A.I. could do it as a deep fake.

[@TetsuShima]

I absolutely love the anime style. I wouldn't mind a new adaptation of LOTR made in such format. In fact, I think anime would be a great way to adapt the Silmarillion

[@emosam07]

It would arguably be the best way to do the Silmarillion justice. Like,, and all the extended stories within Children of Hûrin, and The History of Middle Earth Volumes. Dream come true there. Needs to be taken completely seriously, cant be like RoP and try to constantly appease fans of the movies with callbacks and similar lines etc etc. None of that. I'm excited for this movie.

[@TetsuShima]

@@emosam07 Specially the creation of Middle Earth by Eru and the Valar. Imagine trying to adapt that into live-action

[@emosam07]

@TetsuShima I've been thinking about this a lot lately and i wish i was a great CG designer who could just animate it all myself over years as a project lol. Cuz i wholly agree. All that early 1st Age stuff needs to be handled a particular way that not even I am sure of how to explain it lol

[@Scott-un7lc]

Great Idea mate that would be awesome

[@isaiahfriend7270]

@@emosam07Idk if you have seen them yet, but Scavenger Reign and Primal on netflix are gorgeous. I think the Silmarillion should be done in one of those if its animation. Plus they are with HBO Max and owned by warner bros. I like the anime crossovers, feels like a cool little crossover event. Like in a video game.

[@Micaht7v]

So excited for War of the Rohirrim! It’ll be awesome seeing it in theatre!

[@TetsuShima]

9:26 *Fun fact:* The iconic Isengard tower we see in the Jackson movies takes great inspiration from Alan Lee's representation of Saruman's lair in the illustrated editions of LOTR. Lee's iconic artwork heavily influenced Jackson along the 1978 animated movie

[@jarikism]

Their work didn't just influence it - Lee and Howe were hired as artists to work with the Production team.

[@SketchedbySte]

An upcoming interview with Alan Lee!? Yes Matt! I hope you get some great images to show on screen, be sure to ask him if he has any other upcoming middle earth / art books coming for us!

[@otaku-sempai2197]

I own a copy of 'The Lord of the Rings: Weapons and Warfare'. I've found the book to be a useful reference for discussion of the films. Recommended.

[@JoEsMhOe]

Wow, I’ve never been this early for a video. 28 whole seconds 😮 I have to say, I do love the art design of this movie. It’s gorgeous

[@Enerdhil]

Yes, but the difference between the detail and quality of the art books and the anime is huge.😞

[@kristenrosales2919]

I said it once and I'll say it again. Great Helm Hammerhand's ghost! This is awesome! And an interview with Alan Lee to boot! I'm as happy as hobbit eating second breakfast!

[@afolsom685]

I'm a book nerd so thrilled to hear about this. Thank you!

[@borianadaje956]

Love it, looks awesome! Id love if they would reissue the books about og trilogy and hobbits. I mean how to movie trilogy was made, the book about costumes concept arts etc. Love that stuff.

[@Carrie449-xyz]

Beautiful, love the look of this!

[@fireraider747]

Already pre-ordered from Amazon very excited, they also have 4 action figures coming in December.

[@Enerdhil]

That's great! Because Action figures are always based on the art book art 😁👍, not the anime art.😞

[@BenBootKHTwo]

I asked for my nephew to buy it for me for Christmas. It will give him a chance to flip through it.

[@lvdpoel9758]

ALAN LEE LETS GO

[@battlericky17]

This looks great!

[@magecraft2]

Must admit I am still on the fence for this movie it looks great but still worried about how they will do the story. I would love Hera to be a strong women who can defend herselt and out ride any one. However if they go full on warrior princess with her (like Rings of power) I feel it lessens what Eowyn does in LOTR.

[@Enerdhil]

Yes. Great point. It is tough to balance between a shield maiden and an Amazonian Girl-boss. TRoP did the latter to Galadriel. I hope PJ and company were able to find that balance. I think anime has many heroines who are tough, smart, skilled-at-fighting but still very feminine. I hope that is how we will see Hèra. 🙏🤞

[@77surefire]

Hera is like Eowyn 2.0?

[@esecarolus]

Excited? Excited for the movie?? I can't wait Precioussss!!

[@lb7631]

I really want this and am so excited for the movie pls do more war of the rohirrim

[@Scott-un7lc]

Cheers mate, I would not have known about this book before it is to late to order one, I got the Hardcover versions of this and the art book.

[@Enerdhil]

Now you have to go to the cinema cosplaying as Fréaláf. 😁👍 You have about six weeks to make your costume. Good luck.

[@alex_davis_11]

Now, this is how you do a series, not the Rings of poppo

[@cheezzwhizz]

Wish we could have a stream room tour ❤

[@kalmarfanatic04]

I need this book. 😭 I can't wait to see the movie!!!!!!

[@STMukr]

Nice presentation Matt. ❤

[@jjarmbrust9181]

Really want to know if it is close and how close it is to the books and lore

[@Enerdhil]

You will either have to wait to see it yourself or wait for someone else to see it and post about it.

[@oliver2671]

What is the name of the music track in the beginning of the video? I really like it but am not able to find it.

[@sabineb.5616]

Well, well, the first reviews are available now - and they are less than stellar! Frankly, l am not surprised. I haven't been able to get very excited about the plot of the movie and it's main characters, and I am also not an anime fan. The trailers didn't manage to change my mind. But I was still hoping to be proven wrong. However, even the positive reviews are mostly lukewarm. No one who has actually seen the movie by now, seems to have enjoyed it as much as they wanted to enjoy it. I guess that movie really isn't for me 😞

[@DanielCrowder]

I'm incredibly excited. I have enjoyed ROP; I know a lot haven't. I have the same timeline and plot issues a lot of people have with it so I get it, but I have enjoyed it nonetheless. With War of The Rohirrim though, I'm excited - knowing this is in the LOTR movie version of the universe, and that PJ has had a hand in it, it's pretty nostaligic to my teens. Even the fact that it's getting a December release. I feel like I get to relive some part of my youth.

[@ShinkuRosetta]

I saw the Terminator anime, was a bit disappointed. Hopefully, this will be better.

[@Enerdhil]

The art looks so much better than the trailer. I guess art books will always have more detail.😞

[@dipak002]

The kingdom of Rohirrim and it's people seems to have been inspired from Norse mythology. But that's not a bad thing.

[@cesarturincio4264]

And Fréaláf?

[@ivacho9428]

He is cast in the movie and you can find him in the recent poster, banner and you can recognize him in the trailer

[@Enerdhil]

Coming to a theater near you.

[@chrispauls7178]

I've a question for Channel. So I began reading the book "The Fall of Gondolin". Early on I hear the narrator saying gnomes. Are gnomes in middle earth? And if so what role did they play in the stories?

[@NerdoftheRings]

In Tolkien’s early drafts, he referred to elves as gnomes. So that first version of Fall of Gondolin still has gnomes. The later ones will have elves.

[@rburk854]

@@NerdoftheRings Specifically, "Gnomes" usually referred to the group of elves that would later be called the Noldor.

[@helpfulfox2789]

i've come to feast on the salt that is sure to be abundant in these comments.

[@lucasbelmonte2832]

Why? Because this "Hera" who is basically an OC will basically replace Fréaláf?

[@SeanCSHConsulting]

@@lucasbelmonte2832 Aaaand it starts. 😂

[@lucasbelmonte2832]

@@SeanCSHConsulting Where is Frealaf then? He’s not been in any trailers or promotions, he had to be confirmed to be in the movie and look who it is fighting Wulf, unless Frealaf suddenly has red hair and grew a pair of breast doubt that’s him. When the team for a film turns the no name no importance character into the mc then you know it’s going to be bad

[@thinkwithurdipstick]

@@SeanCSHConsulting Tolkien crafted a world so rich and vibrant so as to inspire an entire genre of literature. Your opinion on the story, as well as that of the writers, is so far beneath his works.

[@ivacho9428]

​@@lucasbelmonte2832Frealaf is cast in the movie. He is actually present in the trailer, in the banner released last week and in the most recent poster

[@Enerdhil]

I think it is a mistake to release the Art Books before the movie comes out. The reason is simple: everyone who buys the art book will be disappointed when they see the anime because the detail and quality are markedly worse.😞 My wife has a dozen anime art books, all bought AFTER she watched the Animes. If you don't get disappointed looking at the trailer picture and then looking at the artists' detailed depictions of the characters than you don't have high standards at all. 🤨 On the other hand, serious Cosplayers base their costumes on the art books, which means they will be able to go to the theater cosplaying as one of the characters.😁👍

[@gorequillnachovidal]

that picture is better than all of rings of power at least

[@aripalefski2676]

Very cool

[@lucasbelmonte2832]

Yeah the more I see this the more worried I get. We still haven't actually got a confirmed look at Fréaláf who is the second or third most important character in this story after Helm and Wolf, he is the one who kills Wulf and becomes the king of Rohan and is where Théoden descends from and we he have not seen him. We know he is in the film but I almost guarantee he wont be the one to kill Wulf or become king, and we all know who will do both instead.

[@Enerdhil]

My theory is that Fréaláf will kill Wulf, but Hèra will help him or he will help Hèra.

[@lucasbelmonte2832]

@ I swear if he doesn’t at the least become king of Rohan I might not watch an adaptation again. Changing that would be just too much.

[@Enerdhil]

@@lucasbelmonte2832 Agree.👍

[@PhoenixMatrix8]

Where was Gondor when Theoden was born?

[@ivacho9428]

Actually Theoden was born in Gondor 😂😂😂

[@Enerdhil]

I think Matt said it in the video.

[@gandalf4751]

😍😍😍✅✅✅

[@MarcumDavid]

It saddens me that they looked through such excellent material and decided to tell it from the pov of an unnamed character, just so they could make a movie like every 20s movie (main character strong willed warrior female fighting her station from within and battling her enemies from without) Grrrrrl Power, am I right!? 😑

[@NathanS__]

Such a dumb take. All the named Characters die before the story is finished, except for Helm's nephew Frealaf, who is famously NOT with Helm Hammerhand or the main fighting at the Hornburg. Helm's daughter plays a huge part in kicking off the war but I'm sure if they added a new son to be the PoV character that you would complain just as much.

[@MarcumDavid]

@@NathanS__ Imagine being so ignorant that you think the protagonist of a story can't die. In some stories every major character dies. That's the way Tolkien had it. Why make the story a story of worldly triumph? And such a played out Grrrl Power story at that.

[@Enerdhil]

Maybe. We have to see how Hèra is portrayed. Japanese are good at making strong female characters who aren't feminist Amazonian girl-bosses. They keep their femininity.

[@MarcumDavid]

@@Enerdhil it wasn't written by Japanese people.

[@Enerdhil]

@@MarcumDavid True but Kenji Kamiyama may be able to talk sense into clueless Americans and New Zealanders. I doubt the Japanese would like an Amazon girl-boss any more than we do. The Japanese voice actors will be awesome, I'm sure.

[@That_Maritimer]

first love your vids man

[@sentiel]

Shame they're ruining it by inserting their own non-canon characters. Tolkein didn't write about Helm's daughter (or even name her), not because he forgot but because she wasn't important in the story. Nothing he did was accidental. Really concerned that this'll just become another low quality Mary Sue power fantasy just like Star Wars' Rey, Rings of Power's Galadriel, and so many others. Shame. A true telling of the War of the Rohirrim per canon from the perspective of Helm Hammerhand and his sons Hama and Haleth would be great

[@marco_cee_]

They have more than enough canon, but still go down this road. Yet another girl-boss. Worked so well with what they did to Galadriel.

[@SeanCSHConsulting]

cry harder

[@SeanCSHConsulting]

@@marco_cee_ I agree, it did work well.

[@MarcumDavid]

​​@@SeanCSHConsulting 🤣😂🤣😂 🤔 Wait you're serious? 🤣😂🤣😂

[@thinkwithurdipstick]

@@SeanCSHConsulting that’s it, you’re cut off lmaoooo you don’t get to have opinions on Tolkien anymore

[@mangahell8177]

I swear Hera has to be somekind off requirement in the contract for the movie to be made she is just too much every modern hollywood female lead to not be it. Please Japan make her a good character and likeble

[@Enerdhil]

I think Japan can make Hèra a feminine hero who can fight like a man, but is still a young woman. Girl-bosses act like dudes, which is why we hate them. Take not RoP Galadriel!

[@rdsiebel]

I'm one of the first comments. Yay! Nerd of the Rings is the best!

[@domenanzlovar6596]

This is cool

[@d3m1g0d4]

It's a big No for me and the anime art style. Tolkien's world is the greatest fantasy world we have known to man and should have it's own specific and unique animation art distinct to it alone, recognized by all.

[@JasonHarrell-z2v]

Trolls on these comments are killing me😂

[@runforrestrun1965]

Not a fan of the anime people look. Weird big eyes like children’s toys just detracts from any belief they spent so much time elsewhere trying to create. Why?

[@nahuelcutrera]

Well the first thing they do is an anime tolkien stuff ?? yeah not exactly confidence inspiring about them respecting tolkien legacy to be honest. And with invented characters ?? waifus looking?? uh oh. we are Frequently Asked Questions.

[@androyus]

All the writing in Rohirrim is still done by Americans btw. The anime Director & studio just executed what's written on the script 🤷

[@blinkusfishus2052]

I think Tolkien is uniquely suited for animation. Lord of the rings was considered unfilmable for so long for good reason. Animation makes it more possible to show the scope of Tolkien's world without it costing you a fortune to get it on screen or having to make comprises. Not convinced this will be good, but Animated Tolkien is something I'm all for.

[@Enerdhil]

​@@blinkusfishus2052 I think it will be good, but after seeing what Hèra is really supposed to look like, I think the trail art looks shabby compared to the art book art.😞

[@Trozzo]

The amount of disrespect Tolken has seen this year is ridiculous. The IP needs to be left alone for 20+ years

[@moviemaniacdjp]

Disrespect?

[@NathanS__]

I think you need a break from the internet for awhile.

[@bryanmatthews2370]

This movie looks well done, I look forward to it

[@jesscarver9882]

​@@moviemaniacdjp Have you seen Rings of Power? Disrespect indeed.

[@moviemaniacdjp]

@jesscarver9882 I have seen it. Not sure how it is disrespectful.

[@XCaimtheReaperX]

woke trash

[@dima5467]

Yikes

[@star_wars_miniatures]

Hera’s addition to this feels a bit like Ahsoka Tano in Star Wars. She’s just been created as a strong female character for female and diversity sake 😅😅 A woke non character!

[@SeanCSHConsulting]

"woke" Thanks, incel.

[@miksi5827]

Sigh... I don't have anything against female heroines, but the concept starts to feel forced and overused. I was hoping more of a traditional male heroes -story. Nevertheless the artwork seems great. Thanks for the update NotR!

[@battlericky17]

How so?

[@nohbuddy1]

I am so sick of you people. Why aren't you sick of the generic male characters?

[@miksi5827]

This my opinion. Why so offended?

[@nohbuddy1]

@@miksi5827 Why do you only hate female characters