The Lord of the Rings: The War of the Rohirrim – this high gloss anime is more rip-off than spin-off
The best JRR Tolkien adaptations tend to resemble long walks in miserable weather. (To be clear, this is a good thing.) But this weird yet watchable animated foray into Middle-earth history – fast-tracked so that New Line Cinema could hang onto the film rights to Tolkien’s work – feels more like ice skating on a well-tended rink.
The Lord of the Rings: The War of the Rohirrim film review — Tolkien reimagined as lumbering anime
Following Amazon’s series The Rings of Power, here is a new Tolkien derivative: The Lord of the Rings: The War of the Rohirrim, a lumbering anime directed by Kenji Kamiyama. Narratively, it bears tenuous relation to Peter Jackson’s phenomenally successful Middle Earth cycle — apart from a couple of outrageously knowing winks in the coda,
Though this is a new anime story, there are plenty of nods to the live-action films. And they are so exciting, Wise admits ...
Tolkien has gone to Tokyo. That’s the gist of the new Middle-earth prequel, The Lord of the Rings: The War of the Rohirrim, ...
Produced by Peter Jackson, Fran Walsh and Philippa Boyens, the 183-years-earlier animated spinoff introduces another female ...
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