Professor Tolkien said in his letters that sometimes the most compelling story is the untold story.” That’s what Philippa Boyens told me when I interviewed her recently about the new animated film The Lord of the Rings: The War of the Rohirrim,

The War of Rohirrim” also feels conspicuously closer to 1990s direct-to-video release than an heir to some of the grandest big-screen fantasy storytelling of the past 25 years.

The latest Lord Of The Rings film in a decade tells the story of tragic king Helm Hammerhand. Read more at straitstimes.com.