The Major beats of my changes:

• Removal of dialogue too on the nose (keywords: predictable structuring of dialogue or “suspense lines”)
• Characters will show up when important to the plot, and grow organically and steadily into the show - even with it’s very thin plot. This way, it won’t feel as slow-paced and characters that are not yet of importance won’t waste your time on the screen.
• Harfoots/Hobbits plotline is sharpened and structured. Ep 1-2’s storyline and introduction of (so far) many unimportant characters is extremely tiresome and will annoy most “attuned-to-cinema” viewers.
• Galadriel has an intruiging backstory and actress imo, but her way too strong introduction and at times very tiresome dialogue (all mostly issues from the first 2 episodes, episode 3 way better here) is doomed to set a lot of audiences into shock and cringe mode. Therefore, Galadriel’s “IM A STRONG FEMALE” introduction is finely tuned into something more of a “IM A DEFINED CHARACTER” introduction. This way, she can grow organically into the story and not come across as a character with too strong a skillset and personality for the viewer to understand that she - as all other good characters in a good story - will have to grow and learn as one.
• Restructing of the entire plotline, with Sauron’s backstory from season 2 carefully crafted into a 4-structure arc throughout the plot.

… and then loads more. We’re talking about a 1000 different cuts here and several new audio mixes.

LOTR being my favorite trilogy of all time, this is an edit more for me than anything I’ve ever edited before. I think there’s things to salvage here.