LOTR: War of the Rohirrim disappoints at the box office, opening as the lowest-grossing Peter Jackson-produced film in the entire franchise to date.

But for one brief moment, the film shifts from its solely human focus to a broader look at what's going on in the rest of Middle-earth — specifically, Mordor. SEE ALSO: 'The Lord of the Rings: The War of the Rohirrim' review: What if Éowyn got her own movie?

The Lord of the Rings: The War of the Rohirrim is a fascinating experiment in adaptation. It's not adapting a novel of J.R.R. Tolkien's, but rather two pages from his Appendices, which lay out the last great stand of one of Rohan's most famed kings, Helm Hammerhand (voiced by Succession 's Brian Cox ).