Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. To non-initiates, The War of the Rohirrim may sound like a face-off between competitive throat-clearing ...

As for the hops back and forth through time themselves, the juxtapositions they create are by turns so lumbering and inane, I’m at a genuine loss as to what the intended effects were meant to be.