The Lord of the Rings: The War of the Rohirrim will be a refreshing addition to the franchise, come what may, but there is a little-understood reason why it was the perfect choice for Warner Bros. The War of the Rohirrim movie will tackle the fighting between the people of Rohan – the Rohirrim – and their neighbors, the Dunlendings. It will be The Lord of the Rings’ first anime movie, directed by Kenji Kamiyama. It could be argued that anime is wasted on this movie, with Middle-earth’s most fantastical species absent from the story.
