The new and improved cut is now finished and released.
In my opinion… the best I can possibly turn this series into, and the only version that my girlfriend actually liked and really enjoyed - so that must count for something (she hated the series, and found my original cut too long and boring because she didn’t like Galadriel).
The restructing is done from scratch, so is all audio and visual work, but some ideas from the original cut were kept.