It has been suggested that production for “The Lord of the Rings: The War of the Rohirrim” began to protect a loss of film rights, with another batch of J.R.R. Tolkien-inspired big screen adventures being cooked up for release in a few years. Instead of speeding up the timetable on these endeavors, Warner Brothers and Peter Jackson’s WingNut Films have decided to turn to the world of anime to help extend contractual power. This style of animation is usually cheap to produce and carries a passionate fanbase, allowing the producers to continue to explore the stories of Middle Earth while remaining, visually, in a fantasy realm that doesn’t require the expense of live-action moviemaking to create. “The War of the Rohirrim” is scripted by Jeffrey Addiss, Will Mathews, Phoebe Gittins, and Arty Papageorgiou, who attempt to expand on mere ideas from Tolkien, hoping to generate a tale of conflict and family capable of satisfying the die-hard “Ring”-ers. Perhaps the offering is successful in this regard, but it doesn’t carry a thunderous cinematic presence, as the inherent thinness of the animation tends to undermine its quest to provide towering visuals. Read the rest at Blu-ray.com