The new anime The War of the Rohirrim tells a story set 180 years before The Lord of the Rings, and according to original trilogy writer Philippa Boyens, this is what J.R.R. Tolkien wanted.
War of the Rohirrim takes advantage of J.R.R. Tolkien’s Legendarium in an entirely new way. The Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit trilogies concentrated on the books written by J.R.R. Tolkien, but War ...