This post contains light spoilers for "The Lord of the Rings: The War of the Rohirrim."
Amid all of the jaw-dropping fantasy storytelling in Peter Jackson's original "The Lord of the Rings" trilogy, there are flashes of occasionally disturbing moments. Uruk-hai being birthed from mud, Gollum biting into the flesh of a raw fish, Frodo getting stabbed and wrapped up by a giant spider, Denethor messily chomping on small tomatoes leading the juice to dribble down his chin ... there are plenty of shots where it feels like Jackson and his collaborators are almost delighting in making audiences squirm in their seats a little. With some of the same people working on "The Lord of the Rings: The War of the Rohirrim," Warner Bros.' latest big-screen return to Middle-earth, perhaps it shouldn't be surprising that there's a particularly gnarly moment in the new movie as well. But the surprising thing is that the scene in question from this anime film actually ended up being more disturbing than anything in the entire live-action trilogy.