The War of the Rohirrim, which opened on Dec. 13 to a very low $4.5M, will be available on digital in home on Dec. 27, repping a 14-day theatrical window.

The animated film takes a unique look at this world, but there's a very straightforward reason we got 'The War of the Rohirrim."

New Line Cinema's anime movie, The Lord of the Rings: The War of the Rohirrim, is set for digital home video release on Friday. The movie is inspired by the works of J.R.R. Tolkien and is set 183 years before the events of the original Lord of the Rings trilogy of films.

The War of the Rohirrim takes place about 250 years before the events of The Lord of the Rings, during the reign of Helm Hammerhand, king of Rohan. Or, to give you another kind of perspective on things: Helm’s Deep, the massive mountain fortress where the climax of Peter Jackson’s The Two Towers takes place? That’s named after Helm.

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 will be released on digital just two weeks after it debuted in theaters. The post The Lord of the Rings: The War of the Rohirrim set for digital release just two weeks after opening in theaters appeared first on JoBlo.

The Lord of the Rings: The War of the Rohirrim is a fascinating experiment in adaptation. It's not adapting a novel of J.R.R. Tolkien's, but rather two pages from his Appendices, which lay out the last great stand of one of Rohan's most famed kings, Helm Hammerhand (voiced by Succession 's Brian Cox ).

Warner Bros. and New Line Cinema have announced The Lord of the Rings: The War of the Rohirrim digital release date for the newest installment to the studio’s blockbuster fantasy franchise. This comes a little over a week after the animated prequel’s theatrical debut.

One of my key cinematic beliefs is that there exists no greater battle scene in movie history than the Battle of Helm’s Deep from 2002’s The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers. What Peter Jackson and his team accomplished there—in marrying pure epic scale to intimate human moments;