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