Vranir, I’ve just watched Part 2, Udun. I probably should have read your notes before watching it as I wrongly presumed this was ‘Season 2’ the movie cut, but it’s more like half of Season 2. It does feel like less was cut from the TV show for this Part 2 edit, and that’s understandable as it was generally a stronger season.

So Udun doesn’t feature the Dwarves storyline nor any of the Halbrand + Celebrimbor. It was an enjoyable edit, but due to the plotlines you did follow it feels rather smaller and more intimate than your Part One movie. The big showstopper sequence of the siege of Eregion has been saved for the next film - I kind of want to see that one now!

Great job, I certainly enjoyed it more than the TV show and I thought in particular the Rhun and Numenor plotlines were better served the way you presented them with less interruption and cutaways. It felt like it had a proper emotional ending with Gandalf finding out who he is and saying goodbye to Nori (and then that final ‘tease’ of Halbrand showing up on Celebrimbors gate).