But for one brief moment, the film shifts from its solely human focus to a broader look at what's going on in the rest of Middle-earth — specifically, Mordor. Mordor's influence creeps into The War of the Rohirrim during the film's prolonged siege sequence,

Those two groups are Sauron's allies in the War of the Ring, helping to take Osgiliath from Faramir's ( David Wenham) forces in The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers and fighting at the Battle of Pelennor Fields in Return of the King.

The War of the Rohirrim proved me wrong. The new animated movie, directed by Kenji Kamiyama ( Blade Runner: Black Lotus ), raises the scare factor on the classic monsters by lowering the stakes. The first glimpse of an oliphaunt we get in Jackson’s Lord of the Rings is a brief glimpse in The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers.