Middle-Earth mythology receives a new addition with Kenji Kamiyama’s anime movie feature, Lord of the Rings: War of the Rohirrim, which is acting as a retroactive expansion to the franchise, like Amazon Studio’s Rings of Power aimed to be, as the events of the movie take place two centuries before Peter Jackson’s live-action trilogy. The first thing about the movie that immediately grabs attention is the visual likeness to Studio Ghibli aesthetics. Although, as the movie progresses, the finer details appear to get jumbled up in haste, and as the plot unravels in its entirety, it becomes quite clear that Warner Bros. Studios were really desperate to keep the rights to the Middle-Earth adaptations and didn’t bother producing the movie as an organic whole. As a result, instead of getting a story about Middle-Earth, we have ended up with one that reminds viewers occasionally that the...