Kamiyama and screenwriters Phoebe Gittins and Arty Papageorgiou frame The War of the Rohirrim as a historical tale told by The Lord of the Rings' Éowyn (Miranda Otto, returning in voiceover).

You better be trilling the crap outta those Rs when you say The Lord of the Rings: The War of the Rohirrim (now streaming on Max), or there will be heck to pay. This anime-style movie is a prequel to ...

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What’s a War of The Rohirrim Anyway? If you’re unfamiliar with The War of The Rohirrim, here’s how MAX has described the movie that arrived in theaters last year, “Set 183 years before the ...

The War of the Rohirrim released in theaters December 13 and arrived on digital storefronts just two weeks later. The film failed to reach $10 million at the box office, which likely contributed ...

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 ...