You want other oppinions well.... I tried, but my computer froze and my nice long paragraph of an oppinion was lost.
So know I must begin again.
I think everything would be very messed up if they still had Gandalf. Mostly bacause of Merry and Pipin's kidnapping. I believe Gandalf would have stopped it from happening, So Aragorn, Legolas and Gimli would have probably gone to Gondor with Boro(who Gandalf saved) and Merry and Pippin would never have seen Treebeard, te Ents wouldn't have gotten involved, most likely Gandalf woudn't have had the power to over power Saruman and Theoden would have gotten hes entire country defeated. All would have been lost.
But that might just be me.
~*
Wilwa*~
P.S. Oh yes, and just imagine what kind of havic the Balrog(winged of course
) would have caused if Gandalf hadn't defeated him.