Deleting my favourite sequences ( Moria battle and Helm's Deep) would only lead to situation in which I would not even want to watch my own edit. And it would be pointless. And again - Saruman is my favourite character, and without Helm's Deep he is not a threat anymore, cause what is he doing? Burning down some village?

About prologue - most of important things are explained by both Gandalf and Elrond, but maybe I will put back some parts of it to scenes where Gandalf reads about Isildur. I will probably also put back scene with the shards of Narsil.

And thing about pity - let's assume that Frodo's compassion is only because he just feels he may end up like Gollum. Frodo and Gollum interaction in this edit is very shortened and may be shortened even more, cause there are some scenes which I may still cut.