The Lord of the Rings: The War of the Rohirrim is proving to be divisive among critics, with the reviews for the film mixed on several elements, from its pacing and narrative to action ...

And, believe it or not, the flashy new anime film, The Lord of the Rings: The War of the Rohirrim, has more in common with the Rankin/Bass animated Tolkien efforts than you might realize.

The lineage video is for the film 'The Lord Of The Rings: The War Of The Rohirrim' and it can be watched below. For those of you that are curious about the film and what it's all about ...

The War of the Rohirrim was created by anime studio Sola Digital Arts. The film is set 183 years before the events of The Lord of the Rings and took inspiration from Peter Jackson's beloved ...

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).

Credit: Courtesy of Warner Bros. Pictures The Lord of the Rings: The War of the Rohirrim is a fascinating experiment in adaptation. It's not adapting a novel of J.R.R. Tolkien's, but rather two ...

An unscrupulous local lord Freca (Shaun Dooley) wants to marry off his son Wulf (Luke Pasqualino) to Hèra, a proposition rejected by both Helm and Hèra. The resulting fracas leaves Freca dead and Wulf ...

Sometimes all you need for tension is a change of scale. The Lord of the Rings: The War of the Rohirrim is out now in theaters.

MANILA, Philippines — "The Lord of the Rings" returns to the big screen in animated form with "The War of the Rohirrim," a prequel that expands footnotes in J.R.R. Tolkien's beloved books.