Leithian: The Opera

[Telmelion]

In my opinion, the Lay of Leithian would work much better as a musical(or opera) than LotR. In the matter of plot, the Beren and Luthien story would benefit from the lack of characters while LotR is so complicated that it is nearly impossible to translate it into a script of a passable time length for a musical. The Lay of Leithian is also based around singing; putting it into an opera seems like a genius idea to me. Good luck.