You can check out our full interview with Philippa Boyens below. You got to name a Tolkien character in The Lord of the Rings: The War of the Rohirrim; what was the process of settling on the name ...

That’s what Philippa Boyens told me when I interviewed her recently about the new animated film The Lord of the Rings: The War of the Rohirrim, which she produced and co-wrote the story for.

When it comes to the little kernels of information that can be pulled from J.R.R. Tolkien's Legendarium, there's probably no one with more experience on how that can be turned into a filmic story ...

And it was fitting ride back onto the big screen. Philippa Boyens, who has had an extensive hand in shaping the cinematic world of The Lord of the Rings, alongside collaborates Fran Walsh and ...

Kicking off the tale at hand, here’s what Philippa Boyens told me as the inspiration for even bringing Saruman back: …one of the questions that arose in our minds were, which characters from ...

Previously, she founded The Mary Sue. For Peter Jackson’s Lord of the Rings trilogy, screenwriter Philippa Boyens, Jackson, and Fran Walsh took on the task of translating three expansive novels ...

But most likely, this is only the beginning. Nerdist has the chance to sit down with long-time Percy Jackson collaborator Philippa Boyens, who has been a writer and producer on many The Lord of ...

As it turns out, the decision to bring back Saruman in The War of the Rohirrim was a decision made early in the process, and it came out of a question from producer Philippa Boyens. Sitting down ...

His role was famously taken over by Arwen instead. When chatting to Philippa Boyens about what The Lord of the Rings movies she’d love to see in the world, Boyens noted that narratively ...

Here’s what The Lord of the Rings‘ Boyens shared about her dream Beren and Lúthien movie: Yes, yes, yes, there is [a The Lord of the Rings movie she’d most like to make]. It has ...

In celebration of The War of the Rohirrim, Philippa Boyens, a writer on the movie, also chatted to us about the status of The Hunt for Gollum and teased some of the plot points and The Lord of the ...