# Movies you've seen recently (Part 2)

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> [@Mahaloth](#):
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> **Lord of the Rings: War of the Rohirrim**
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> Not recommended.
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> Disappointingly boring. I had hopes this would be good, but it just isn’t. There is some great animation and all the voice acting is fine, but the movie itself does not have an interesting script or any interesting characters.

I wasn’t particularly thrilled by it, but found it an interesting mashup of the Peter Jackson LoTR universe (which itself is kind of a mutated version of the original Tolkien) and Japanese fantasy anime, with a definite fanfiction vibe.

It did take a while to get into the film; it still kind of weirds me out to hear ostensibly Middle-earth characters saying things that Tolkien didn’t actually write. But overall, I support the Middle-earth saga becoming a genuine folk epic, and that means reimaginings at all different levels of “authenticity” by different creators. Naturally, not all folk are going to like all of them.

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