The War of the Rohirrim is my best movie for 2024. This movie is GLORIOUS. It is animated, it has A LOT OF VIOLENCE, but interestingly enough that’s one of the reasons it is so great. Important people die. I wouldn’t recommend it for little ones, but 13+ it’s a MUST see. Young people especially have been flooded with comic book style movies where nobody dies and nothing has consequences… This is different.
Tolkien fans should be proud. It isn’t 100% faithful to the source material (no movie is) but all the source material was covered, done justice, and it wasn’t polluted by Hollywood. There has been practically zero advertising for this… so I hope you see it. I believe it couldn’t have been pulled off financially if this wasn’t animation. You don’t need to be a LOTR super fan to enjoy this, but any causal viewer of the trilogy will love this.
I want to reiterate I wouldn’t take my 7 year old daughter to see this… it is animated, but it is a war movie (literally in the title). Way more violence than the LOTR trilogy. That being said I do plan on taking my 12 year old daughter. One of the leading characters is a woman and she isn’t an insufferable Girl Boss, but she is good and noble. She isn’t in the source material, but we see everything through her eyes and I think the material is served by this perspective.
Josef was literally clapping when it finished. Seriously.
Josef (16): ““Dang, that was impressive…” “Dad, you know it’s good when you are writing the script for the post before it finishes.”
"The horn of Helm Hammerhand shall sound in the deep... one last time."
(Video review coming soon. Yes... I am going to be consistently reviewing movies that might appeal to families so you know what to expect from a Catholic perspective. Check the shorts section of our page.)
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The War of the Rohirrim is my best movie for 2024. This movie is GLORIOUS. It is animated, it has A LOT OF VIOLENCE, but interestingly enough that’s one of the reasons it is so great. Important people die. I wouldn’t recommend it for little ones, but 13+ it’s a MUST see. Young people especially have been flooded with comic book style movies where nobody dies and nothing has consequences… This is different.
Tolkien fans should be proud. It isn’t 100% faithful to the source material (no movie is) but all the source material was covered, done justice, and it wasn’t polluted by Hollywood. There has been practically zero advertising for this… so I hope you see it. I believe it couldn’t have been pulled off financially if this wasn’t animation. You don’t need to be a LOTR super fan to enjoy this, but any causal viewer of the trilogy will love this.
I want to reiterate I wouldn’t take my 7 year old daughter to see this… it is animated, but it is a war movie (literally in the title). Way more violence than the LOTR trilogy. That being said I do plan on taking my 12 year old daughter. One of the leading characters is a woman and she isn’t an insufferable Girl Boss, but she is good and noble. She isn’t in the source material, but we see everything through her eyes and I think the material is served by this perspective.
Josef was literally clapping when it finished. Seriously.
Josef (16): ““Dang, that was impressive…” “Dad, you know it’s good when you are writing the script for the post before it finishes.”
"The horn of Helm Hammerhand shall sound in the deep... one last time."
Extended Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u4Wps...
(Video review coming soon. Yes... I am going to be consistently reviewing movies that might appeal to families so you know what to expect from a Catholic perspective. Check the shorts section of our page.)
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