Film Review — The Lord of the Rings: The War of the Rohirrim
Kenji Kamiyama’s animated take on an obscure bit of Tolkien’s appendixes is well made but entirely superfluous to artistic requirements
We are doomed to live in times when JRR Tolkien’s fantasy masterpiece is strip-mined and squeezed dry for every possible penny, yielding nothing of significant artistic value. TV series The Rings of Power is a depressing case in point, and now there are absurd plans to make a film about the time when Gandalf and Ar…
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