A comment
I know that it is confusing and frustrating when the posts announced here do not match the content of the sessions. This is largely a problem I have created. So, I will offer an explanation and an apology.
With the 'miscellaneous elves' topic, I was very uncertain how the discussion of them would go in the sessions. They all play a very minor, tangential role in Season 5, but are major characters in the project overall. So, it was possible the hosts would decide, well, not much on them for now, just have them appear for this one thing this season, and we'll come back to them in the future, when they are more important. Such a discussion would likely be. . .very brief. Or, they could spend time puzzling out how to advance these characters' stories this season, despite how they are removed from the main storyline. Obviously, that takes longer.
I was not sure which way the discussion would go, so I chose to err on the side of giving them too much material rather than too little. If I had just given them 'miscellaneous elves' in Session 12 and they blasted through that in 45 minutes...then what? So I added in the Villains to make sure we were good. And I included that content in the posts here, so that everyone has the opportunity to contribute prior to the session where it will be announced.
Clearly, that was the wrong judgement call. They wanted to talk about Galadriel and Thingol at length, and the Villains discussion is completely removed from that. We will talk about the villains in session 5-14. But by now, everyone is impatient to get to that topic, because it has been 'teased' through 2 sessions.
Naturally, it is frustrating for everyone here when I say, 'we are going to talk about x!'...and then we do not talk about x. I do apologize. I do not typically have an 'inside track' with Corey Olsen about how the sessions are going to go. Sometimes I guess wrong. And over the past 2 seasons, I have tended to err on the side of overly ambitious plans to make sure we were prepared, but that is not fair to posters here. I am sorry. I will try to be more transparent about when I am reasonably confident what we will discuss, and when I am. . .including too much just to be safe.