Surprise us Sally and don't go with the trump card.
Think fex. of Fingolfin's Melodramatic story - being rewarded from his righteousness after all the toil, sorrow and heroic crossing of Helcaraxë, becoming the High king through his might and trueness - and his son's deeds.
And how does it end? Hearing a false story of his side losing he rides ALONE to challenge Morgoth himself into a duel! And he deals Morgoth a good deal of blows nobody had done or would (fex. making him to limp for the rest of his corporeal being)... and dying, of course, like any melodramatic hero needs to do. But even in death his body was rescued by none else than Thorondor and a cairn was built to honour his memory...
I mean what melodramatic is in Gandalf cloaked or uncloaked in comparison to that story?
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Upon the hearth the fire is red
Beneath the roof there is a bed;
But not yet weary are our feet...
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