Well, we made it through episodes 7 and 8 today, leaving episodes 9-13 for next session (Friday June 1st).
Major comments:
In Episode 7, Finrod will have a 'waking memory' or 'dream-walking' flashback of his departure from Amarië to emphasize the 'what was left behind' in Valinor part of the decision to leave.
In Episode 8, there will be no 'nearly-capsized ship' sequence. Amrod and Amras will make the ocean crossing in the same ship more or less uneventfully. Amrod will reveal to Amras that he has a palantir, which means that in their final conversation, Amras will threaten to turn it in to their father.
In the frame tag to Episode 8, Estel's leave-taking of Hamilcar will be a more active stranding than simply leaving him in his sleep. Estel will use Hamilcar's help to, say, climb a rock wall, and then refuse to turn around and help Hamilcar up [or something to that effect]. Estel does not do anything malicious enough to leave Hamilcar in danger, but it is a deliberate abandonment.
In the frame of Episode 9, Elladan and Elrohir and Halbarad will catch up with Hamilcar out in the wild; Hamilcar does not return to the Dunedain camp.
More generally, we did talk a bit about the structure of the enemy forces. Thus, Draugluin's host consists of both werewolves (ngaurhoth) who are supernatural creatures with Maiar spirits, as well as wargs, who are intelligent wolves large enough for an orc to ride on. There can be regular wolves in Middle-earth as well, who are no larger nor any more intelligent than a normal wolf. The largest werewolf ever is Carcaroth, of course, so we have to keep him in mind and not make the others too large. Tevildo's cats are almost all regular creature size. Thuringwethil is a shapeshifter - she can look like a bat and fly, or she can take on a more humanoid form. Her vampires can consist of some other shape-shifting creatures like her, but there can also be regular (non-shapeshifting) vampire bats in her employ (the warg equivalent). And of course Middle-earth has bats that are just bats, and not necessarily evil at all.
We can get into that more in the thread about creature designs, of course.