Hey I have an idea for Thuringwethil and Luthien (what a surprise coming from me) What if we had Thuringwethil, as planned, basically killed in ep. 7, and close to death anyway, but we do not just show her being just, unceremoneously as a random corpse laying around somewhere. Instead then in episode 9, luthien somehow finds her somewhere in a shadowed place, nursing her wounds, close to fading, and sings her a sort of lullaby into releasing her from this plane, a death song so to speak (forshadowing the convincing she will do in the lullaby for morgoth but also in a way convincing the corrupted maia of mandos to let go and fade into the west, and also we could have our cake and eat it too by not having luthien battle thuringwethil but still having her as a sort of foil to luthien)
If we want we can have her give "the cloak" to Luthien, along with maybe even a hint towards how to proceed towards tol-in-gaurhoth, as Thuringwethil at this point has no more reason to guard sauron's back. Then it would make it less a "luthien skins the dead bat" scene, and more, luthien gains a power of sauron's spies because he has betrayed them, a classic Sauron opened up a vulnerability by becoming more selfish and power-driven. Also it would make the whole "disguise plot" more about exploiting Sauron's mistakes, loyalty, stealth, instead of the raw, like, "oh they found two skins on the ground" which works in the fairytale version of the lay but not necessarily in a long form story.
How that ties into draugluin or another wolf pelt or sth i do not know, but maybe that part then is more mundane and luthien can just camouflage beren under a normal wolfs pelt or sth, without it having to be the same thing as thuringwethil's cloak, just as a werewolf.
