is the upcoming film war of the rohirrim canon to the tolkien books?

[Geek Ultra]

or is it noncanon?

[Spotter]

Common Sense says "Go to LOTRO Forum website and "Search" for your answers. You might get a surprise that'll have you grin from Ear-to-Ear, or frown like Whale-doo. 👍👍🌟

[Geek Ultra]

Originally posted by Spotter:

Common Sense says "Go to LOTRO Forum website and "Search" for your answers. You might get a surprise that'll have you grin from Ear-to-Ear, or frown like Whale-doo. 👍👍🌟

junior's common sense forgot this is also a lotro forum.

[NavFamG]

Originally posted by Geek Ultra:

junior's common sense forgot this is also a lotro forum.

Officially it's not, it's only a discussion group. I'm not sure what the difference is, unless it has to do with the Dev's don't ever come here or probably even read any of this.

[Darsh]

Not sure why people are being as unhelpful as humanly possible. Chalk it up to average steam user.

As for war for the Rohirrim, I am not super versed in either the show or source, but from what I have gathered the basic idea at least seems sound to the lore. Will have to see how they execute it but not seeing anything that is lore shattering about it.

Being smaller in scale of importance (No ring stuff going on) could help it just stand as it's own little story in a bigger world. Guess we will see.

[Harvain]

Originally posted by Geek Ultra:

or is it noncanon?

It's "based" on Canon Events involving King Helm of Rohan aka Helm the Hammerhand, the Long Winter & the Invasion of Rohan by Dunlendings + Corsairs + Haradrim but also is going to delve into Non-Canon elements such as having Helm's daughter, Hera, having a larger role than the Lore.

Helm in the Lore has an "unnamed daughter" aka Tolkien not giving her a proper name like he gives for Helm's two sons: Haleth & Hama.

So it'll be akin to the Lord of the Rings Movies basically: built on canon but also having a unique story for itself that doesn't 100% stick to the proper events, having events not in the correct order, and so on.

[NavFamG]

Originally posted by Harvain:

Originally posted by Geek Ultra:

or is it noncanon?

It's "based" on Canon Events involving King Helm of Rohan aka Helm the Hammerhand, the Long Winter & the Invasion of Rohan by Dunlendings + Corsairs + Haradrim but also is going to delve into Non-Canon elements such as having Helm's daughter, Hera, having a larger role than the Lore.

Helm in the Lore has an "unnamed daughter" aka Tolkien not giving her a proper name like he gives for Helm's two sons: Haleth & Hama.

So it'll be akin to the Lord of the Rings Movies basically: built on canon but also having a unique story for itself that doesn't 100% stick to the proper events, having events not in the correct order, and so on.

Strong female character to bring in that half of the demigraphics and odds are she'll have a love interest most likely someone she knew before, but is now an enemy soldier.

[Harvain]

Originally posted by NavFamG:

Originally posted by Harvain:

It's "based" on Canon Events involving King Helm of Rohan aka Helm the Hammerhand, the Long Winter & the Invasion of Rohan by Dunlendings + Corsairs + Haradrim but also is going to delve into Non-Canon elements such as having Helm's daughter, Hera, having a larger role than the Lore.

Helm in the Lore has an "unnamed daughter" aka Tolkien not giving her a proper name like he gives for Helm's two sons: Haleth & Hama.

So it'll be akin to the Lord of the Rings Movies basically: built on canon but also having a unique story for itself that doesn't 100% stick to the proper events, having events not in the correct order, and so on.

Strong female character to bring in that half of the demigraphics and odds are she'll have a love interest most likely someone she knew before, but is now an enemy soldier.

Well aDunlending wants his son to marry Helm's daughter so that part will happen as seen with the trailers.

It's just how everything is depicted as Helm's daughter Hera is shown in a trailer wearing a white wedding dress & also fighting in it.

[Darkbolt{AWG}]

this is a steam forum and it is amazing what you can find in literally 5 seconds if you just do a search for it lolz. What i want to know is WHO is making this so called film is it disney? if so HAHAHAHAHAHAHA woke trash they will ruin it too!

[Geek Ultra]

Originally posted by NavFamG:

Originally posted by Geek Ultra:

junior's common sense forgot this is also a lotro forum.

Officially it's not, it's only a discussion group. I'm not sure what the difference is, unless it has to do with the Dev's don't ever come here or probably even read any of this.

it is an official lotro forum under steam. neither is literally connected to the film, but id rather ask here where its easier to access

[Talyc Verda]

Originally posted by Geek Ultra:

or is it noncanon?

Originally posted by Harvain:

Originally posted by Geek Ultra:

or is it noncanon?

It's "based" on Canon Events involving King Helm of Rohan aka Helm the Hammerhand, the Long Winter & the Invasion of Rohan by Dunlendings + Corsairs + Haradrim but also is going to delve into Non-Canon elements such as having Helm's daughter, Hera, having a larger role than the Lore.

Helm in the Lore has an "unnamed daughter" aka Tolkien not giving her a proper name like he gives for Helm's two sons: Haleth & Hama.

So it'll be akin to the Lord of the Rings Movies basically: built on canon but also having a unique story for itself that doesn't 100% stick to the proper events, having events not in the correct order, and so on.

I'd agree with Harvain.

Really, I think you could look at LOTR in general in a similar way to how Star Wars used to be.

Star Wars had George's canon and the EU.

Where LOTR is Tolkien's canon, Peter's Canon, an "extended" canon, and other ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥.

Tolkien's canon obviously being anything from JRR or Christoper.

Peter's canon being The Hobbit movies, The Lord of the Rings movies, The War of the Rohirrim and Andy Serkis' The Hunt for Gollum movie. On top of those, there's likely more films to come in the future that would go here.

Extended canon is where I think you could put the vast majority of things. For example, think of games like The Third Age, War in the North, The Battle for Middle-Earth or LOTRO. Basically, things based on Tolkien's canon that could of happened, but aren't explicitly in canon.

As for other ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥, this just kinda feels like it has to exist because of things like Shadow of War that explicitly contradict canon. This one I also feel like will fill up very quickly in the future given that we are only around 50 odd years before LOTR enters the public domain.

[Geek Ultra]

thanks guys.

sorry for the trolls, i dont give clown points :(