[Theoric Windcaller]

well guys, you have to not just take these three characters into your view. You have to take the entire books into porportion.

i.e. If Aragorn wasn't there at Weathertop to head off the Nazgul, Frodo would have perished, and no one else would truly of had the will to carry the ring to Mordor.

If Glorfindel hadn't of rode Frodo to the Bruinen, Frodo would've died.

If Gandalf didn't take down the Balrog, the company would've perished.

If Merry and Pippin didn't distract the Orcs away from Frodo, they would've chased after him and captured him.

The the Ents hadn't of assaulted Isengard and if Gandalf hadn't brought Eomer to Helm's Deep, the world of men would have failed.


I can point out so many more reasons.

If Smeagol went against his word and took the ring in Frodo's sleep (very easily I might add), he could've ran off with the ring, soon to be caught by Orcs, but, it was because Frodo went against Sam's plead and trusted Smeagol that Smeagol overcame Gollum (his other personality) and restrained himself from taking the ring. (At first).

AND, if Tom hadn't of saved the four Hobbits from the Barrow-Wight, then they would've all been screwed.

Almost every character in the books were the heroes, (except for Grima, Saruman, Sauron, etc.)

Hope my advice was helpful.