The Lord Of The Rings: The War Of The Rohirrim | Featurette: An All-New Lord Of The Rings Story - video Dailymotion

The story behind Helms Deep - hundreds of years before the fateful war - telling the life and blood-soaked times of its founder, the King of Rohan.

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00:00We're ready to go. We're ready to rock and roll, as they say.

00:03We'll never make it past the archers!

00:05Enough!

00:09I've always loved the story of Helm's Deep and Helm Hammerhead

00:12in the larger tale of The Lord of the Rings.

00:16We will paint the dawn red with the blood of our foes!

00:22There are these characters who become larger than their myth

00:26and Helm is part of that tradition.

00:30He's dead!

00:31You will pay for this with your life!

00:40What does Mordor want with me?

00:48You know nothing of war!

00:49Helm underestimates his daughter, Hera.

00:52But he also knows that she's the natural leader.

00:55I pledge to fight for my king.

00:58Hera is given all these mighty, mighty things

01:01that she has to hold on her shoulders.

01:03We have to get our people out!

01:04And defend her people.

01:06Kill them all!

01:07He's building a siege tower.

01:09He means to breach the walls.

01:11She, like Frodo, is someone who has to learn

01:14how to do these extraordinary things she does.

01:17Only at the utmost end of need, as Tolkien would say.

01:21You think I am afraid of you?

01:24You should be.

01:26The idea that we would open up the history was brilliant.

01:30Return to the Hornburg.

01:32She will learn soon enough.

01:34The audience will love seeing Middle-earth in a new format.

01:37Lord of the Rings fans should expect something

01:40in the great tradition of the live-action films.

01:42Fire!

01:45It's heartbreaking, it's beautiful.

01:47There's a kind of voyage of action and discovery.

01:50The fans are in for a big, big injection of Lord of the Rings.

01:55THE LORD OF THE RINGS