Wouldn't a LOTR Series Been Nice?

[Uruk's Bane]

Originally Posted by Forlong the Fat

You could work in some sex

Flashback to Aragorn and Arwen "plighting their troth" (it even sounds a bit dirty)
Sam and Rosie
Sam and Frodo
In a shocker, Sam and Gollum
Obviously Gimli and Legolas
Maybe an indecent assault by Grima on Eowyn
You could make the Prancing Pony an Inn/Whorehouse and show some gratuitous happenings there
Bombadil and Goldberry

And that's just off the top of my head. Give me a week and it will be ready for HBO.

If a series had much at all of that junk in it that you mention, it wouldn't have anything to do with LotR. You just destroyed most of the relationships in the book.