I have been very busy editing bits and pieces of the Fellowship today. I have taken a very slight detour on my original idea but it will result in the same thing. Instead of 6 separate parts as separate edits entirely, Im doing 3 films with intervals half way. This means I will have a Fellowship as a complete edit albeit a rough cut available within the next week hopefully.
Part of my reason for this is that my part one is going to be so similar to Kerr’s edit, I didnt think it fair to put it out like that. My part two is similar too but has so many added Rivendell scenes that it will certainly seem different overall.
I will still be cutting Saruman from after the point they leave Rivendell though just like in Kerr’s edit although there is going to be one or two changes that I have planned. I plan to add the EE edition of the fellowship entering Lothlorien where Kerr cut it from his.

I am going to put out a test clip of the Narsil reforging bit to see what people think. I wasnt able to have Aragorn carrying the shards up until Rivendell, so they will stay on the plinth until Arwen goes to collect them (well I assume she does, as she goes to them, but we dont see her actually pick them up).