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The Lord of the Rings: The War of the Rohirrim is an animated prequel film set 183 years before The Hobbit, when the land of Rohan was ruled by a legendary figure named Helm Hammerhand.

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But The War Of Rohirrim also feels conspicuously closer to 1990s direct-to-video release than an heir to some of the grandest big-screen fantasy storytelling of the past 25 years. Though there are ...

Since the first trailers for The War of the Rohirrim released, Lord of the Rings lovers have been anxiously anticipating visionary director Kenji Kamiyama’s take on Middle-earth, which centers ...