"The First idea is usually the best one." ~ David Ogilvy
This is most usually not the case. The idea that because this story is one of the first of its kind and it's something of a progenitor doesn't mean that what it does progenate wouldn't come and surpass it later on.
It's shown multiple times in science, in life and it's a repetitive trope in animation.
The Lord of the Rings fandom is one of the oldest of high fiction fandoms to exist and it's certainly one of the biggest.
It's no doubt, we literature lovers owe a lot to J.R.R Tolkien. His books are a treasure to behold...
Even if it's actually very shitty writing.
"Bring the first is not always best, sometimes it just means that you're the example others would learn and improve on." ~ Seki
Some Hobbit fans like one of my closest friend Joy a.k.a Grumpy Gnome may condemn me for this, but we have to be honest.
The Lord of the Rings was a beautiful plot but a very boring story, not complicated, just boring.
The writing were filled with fillers and unnecessary details that made every action seem so much slower and make the words drone on and on...
This same dirty pace was carried into the movies (something I watched thinking it'll be better than the books) and seemingly into the anime.
The Lord of the Rings: The War of Rohirrim
Wulf Dunlending wages war against Helm Hammerhand and his for vengeance on his father.
Defeated, delirious and out of hope, it's up to Hera to lead her people to safety and to end the war.
Never in my life have I had to sit through something this painful.
Sometimes I wonder why I kept on watching it, maybe because I thought it'll get better at the end. Yet the more I watched, the more bored I became till I began skipping some parts.
The plot was okay. Since it's a prequel, one doesn't have to watch the main series to know what's happening. Yet I think these are the only good things about this 2hrs long movie.
The bad things though? Now those are numerous.
Firstly why is it 2hrs+?
Nothing much happened story wise. Nothing really happened at all. It was just so tiresome to watch through. From the beginning when Helm Hammerhand killed Wulf's father mistakenly in a disagreement.
It was just 3 more major arcs in the story before the war began. And yet the war took a whole hour. The pacing was just terrible.
Next we had the antagonist Wulf being insufferable, he was like a child throwing a tantrum and it's a disgrace to all revenge filled antagonists everywhere. He was written to seem revenge crazed and willing to do anything to gain vengeance.
Yet all he managed to be was a major annoyance, insufferable to both the characters and the viewers (me) alike.
The protagonist is another issue on her own. I really can't say what is wrong with her, yet I knew nothing was right.
A tomboyish girl clearly meant for glory and such yet it just felt off watching her.
Next thing we can say is the animation? This is the worst 3D animation style I've seen in a while. I thought anime studios had become better than this?
I'll admit, it did get better or rather I adjusted to it but there were somethings that just felt wrong.
I have loads of other grievances but I think those ones would go further beyond the movie and since this review is for the movie itself I'll simply end it here.
LOTR: The War of Rohirrim, is a show that the only thing done extremely well was the title.
Zero pace, zero characters, zero excitement this is literally a 3/10 for me.
A movie that maybe only die hard LOTR fans would enjoy.
Images are screenshots of the movie.
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