The Lord of the Rings animated prequel movie War of the Rohirrim is nearing its theatrical release date and has received its first reviews. Taking place 183 years before the events of Peter Jackson’s iconic trilogy,

The Rotten Tomatoes score has now arrived for The Lord Of The Rings: The War of the Rohirrim, and it falls far short of the original trilogy.

War of the Rohirrim has adapted a single appendix from J.R.R. Tolkien's Lord of the Rings novels into an entire animated movie, but it might not have enough substance to sustain a feature-length runtime.