Sounds interesting. I checked out some other fan edits but all the continuity errors induced from their editing just bothered me too much. (Such as several dwarves not coming along to the mountain for NO REASON AT ALL, the Kili subplot having been completely cut.) I’m curious though, do you have any plans for the part where Smaug breaks through the mountain wall? I saw one edit that recolored him from gold to red in order to make the scene a tad less jarring, but he was still clearly covered in SOMETHING, so I can’t say I was too happy with that… So are you doing anything clever with that part or is it just getting cut entirely? (I feel this would be a bad idea though, as cutting from him going “Then you can watch them suffer!” to him already in the air outside… I can’t imagine that NOT being jarring.)