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LOTR: War of the Rohirrim's Main Character, Explained

Written by Joshua Kristian McCoy
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Many are upset to see a previously unnamed character get the spotlight, but it makes sense to give Hera a spotlight.

Adapting The Lord of the Rings presented a million little challenges. While Peter Jackson did an incredible job with the original trilogy, the franchise continues to carry on with less impressive source material. Tolkien has a lot of appendices that offer additional details and helpful background. There are plenty of high-quality stories buried in that endless text, but most of them are a bit sparse. The upcoming War of the Rohirrim anime film will adapt one such example. The film will adjust the original tale to upgrade the newly-named daughter Hera from a plot-relevant object to the main character.

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