If Lord of the Rings was a soap opera...

[Evisse the Blue]

This idea began after an acquaintance of mine who delights in melodramatic tales finally read LOTR and afterwards told me that she didn't like it. Her reason: The characters did not show their suffering, their inner conflicts, etc. Another reason: Aragorn did not 'sacrifice' himself in front of the Black Gate, like she thought that he would do. Far from me to start an intellectual debate on this point. Instead, I laughed merrily and along with my sister and a few of her friends started imagining what would it be like if LOTR was written like a soap opera or a melodrama...

We came up with funny stuff, like: the teary departure (occupying at least 3 chapters) of Aragorn and Arwen at Rivendell, or the messenger from Gondor who brought the Red Arrow debating with himself for a couple of paragraphs about whether or not he should bring such dreadful news to the riders of Rohan...

I'll leave it to you to come up with more, and more detailed than that...Let your morbid imagination run free and let's poke fun at the soap fans... ( if you're one, don't feel offended, join in to bring some fresh material. )