So, I've read on a comments section on a youtube video this comment: Can someone confirm what trailer is he talking about and if this is true?

This is the video where I read this comment:

Channel: The Broken Sword
"A New Era for Middle-Earth? Or Just Fan Fiction? | The War of the Rohirrim"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v2fgfIjHP00

West media tend to change things indeed for what their 'decisions makers' want things to be, while East tend to be more conservative about their media productions (Specially Japanese productions), so there's a possibility that, being an anime style*, this may actually have good characters. (There's a reason Anime dominates western media. Many animes are not pursuing what "Hollywoods" are right now.)

By the way, personally I don't mind a LOTR media being an anime styled one.

I've watched animes in the past and can say confidently that the artstyle contributes to the freedom of creativity of the writers and can help to surpass limitations of real life and also help with effects costs, specially today with the bloated CGI EVERYTHING trend of super hero movies.

There's one big risk here that they discuss in the video above:

Will they respect the source material - truly?
They don't seem to necessarily care about the lore changes - but they balance a good and mature opinion with how Rings of Power changed things that can't be changed or adapted, while apparently this production is making adaptations to make it work in this kind of media - and they use Peter Jackson's trilogy as an example for lore changes that were great for a movie, that work differently than a book.

Good video anyway - because of this - quite hyped, but, as always, skeptical.

-Edit:

Wops... lost the edit time frame. Sorry.

The Lord of the Rings: The War of the Rohirrim | Official Trailer (Japanese Version)
No subtitles (as usual with Japanese trailers), but seems a bit more balanced, at a cursory glance at least.
Don't see why that one commenter should pull things out of his arse either.

All that would also be true of any other style of animation.

Hanna-Barbera 70s nadir. As in, the time they were repeating looping backgrounds.

If you want to offer another take on a franchise, still preserving its main themes and/or mood, you're welcome. If you want to make something else, then take inspiration and..make another franchise! Tolkien spawned hundreds of fantasy settings, why, if not for the prestige, make something of his books that doesn't really relate to his books? Make a Shannara, make a Dragonlance, make a Forgotten Realms, a Warcraft, a Wesnoth, an Arcanum, a Lodoss, etc. Or...Eru forbid, a new setting...a film without a number following the title!!
There's a lot of difference: Castlevania was not really an original setting, it was Dracula: the action movie, japanese style (and sorry fellow JoJoers, also JoJo started as a very heavy clone/parody of Castlevania itself, mixed with Hokuto no Ken). So making it "nearly anime" is respectful, and adding some western sensitivity is appropriate, because it combines well with themes and style, their ultimate source being a western gothic novel (or an eastern europe folk legend).
LotR is nothing asian. Some of its bits speak of the author interest (but also radical cultural diffidence) toward middle-east, that's all. So it's more difficult and less straightforward to use an anime style for it.

Small objection: Eowyn is not a "fully formed heroine". Arwen is a positive character but a secondary one. Aragorn is a fully formed man, but not yet a hero, actually refusing or not hoping to be a hero anymore (at the start of the narrative).

Eowyn in particular is quite young and facing many challenges, at the same stage of a young Arthur or such. If any female (but, thinking about it, also male) hero is already accomplished in LotR these are heroes of the old era: Galadriel (or Gandalf, or Elrond), etc. And it makes sense as it fits with a classic progression (that would be hard if "the champion" had already won what it was to be won!)

Sauron the flying half naked pterodactyl guy. Right?

You jest, but I'm much rather watch a Scooby-Doo episode about the gang catching Gollum than this.

"It was old man Smeagol all along!"
"Yes, he dressed up as Gollum to scare away the goblins and keep all the fish from this underground lake for himself!"
"The first clue was this ring we found in one of the tunnels."
"Ry Rrecious!"
"And we would have gotten aways with it too, if it weren't for you meddling kidses!"

See, it works!

Thank you!

The japanese trailer is just MUCH better..

True true... but being in the generation that we are with Anime based animations being the 'trend', it makes sense for them to choose this kind of artstyle.

It doesn't matter if they made terrible story anyway, so let's wait.

And now it looks like not only are they stretching a couple of pages into a whole movie... they are splitting it into two movies.

If this is true, I will lose what little hope I had for this project not being an abject disaster.

Ah, the Shenmune strategy! That didn't work so great for that series either. It's basically dead and buried with no chance for a fourth chapter, because the series creator decided, "Ah, let me completely screw up my one chance to return this series to the spotlight by advancing the series story by absolutely nil."

Uh... Wasn't the original trilogy actually planned to be two movies?
Maybe this is a case in which it is for the better? :D

...yeah, no. Just trying to be optimistic.

Did they change ownership or something? What a strange choice for a movie...
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The next chapter in the story of a giant perpetually hungry entity sucking all the life out of something beautiful got postponed to 2027.

In the same news, there's also more Evil Dead without Bruce Campbell and Sam Raimi coming, because why only keep ruining a literary masterpiece when you can also keep ruining a masterpiece of goofy B-movie awesomness.