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,

The appendixes to The Lord of the Rings books have been an invaluable source of knowledge about Middle-earth and are even the foundation for stories like The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power and,

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.