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Film Review — The Lord of the Rings: The War of the Rohirrim

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

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Dec 14, 2024
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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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