Once a staple of the pre-Marvel multiplex, The Lord of the Rings universe has been missing from movie screens for an entire decade, ever since series director Peter Jackson wrapped up his painfully distended adaptation of The Hobbit in 2014. Entitled The War of the Rohirrim, it's set nearly two centuries before the One Ring found its way to Bag …
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.” The film, set 183 years before the events of “The Hobbit,” is a return to …