The War of the Rohirrim tries to expand Middle-earth, but its latest animated entry may not live up to the high expectations set by the franchise.

It's a discombobulating experience, after a "Lord of the Rings" trilogy that was built for the big screen, to see something so comparatively minor as "The War of the Rohirrim."

So you could say that Peter Jackson’s Rohirrim were associated with women taking up unexpected roles even before Miranda Otto’s cry of “ I am no man! ” in The Return of the King. Those legendary riders return triumphant in The Lord of the Rings: The War of the Rohirrim,