The War of the Rohirrim has received mixed reviews from critics, but it's still rated higher than one of The Hobbit movies on Rotten Tomatoes. The War of the Rohirrim currently sits at 62% on the site,

Tolkien’s famed fantasy universe are going to experience some of its lore in a whole new way when the prequel The Lord of the Rings: The War of the Rohirrim hits the 2024 movie calendar. For the first time,

It’s a discombobulating experience, after a “Lord of the Rings” trilogy that was built, down to every frame and hobbit hair, for the big screen, to see something so comparatively minor, small-scaled and TV-sized as “The Lord of the Rings: The War of the Rohirrim,

Sound familiar? That's because the story of Helm Hammerhand is basically the prototype for The Two Towers ' Battle of Helm's Deep. After all, he's the reason the Hornburg comes to be known as Helm's Deep! Yet The War of the Rohirrim is no Helm's Deep retread. It's a brutal, lengthy siege that pushes everyone involved to new, desperate limits.

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The film, set 183 years before the events of “The Hobbit,” is a return to Middle-earth that, despite some very earnest storytelling, never supplies much of an answer as to why, exactly, it exists.

The War of the Rohirrim is riding into theaters. But it sounds like if this movie does well, the door may become open even wider to more new The Lord of the Rings movies in the future. Of course, we already have The Hunt for Gollum on the go,

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