chilling during the war?

[camomile]

my question is, what where the other great characters doing during the war of the ring? and if they had been more active what would that have changed? I know that radegast was concerned about the affairs of the ring sience that was the entire reason his lot was in M.I. so why did he play such a small roll in the war of the ring? and what where beorn, and the beornings doing during this time? I mean being the great man he was he couldn't have been unaware of the threat to midle earth. and on the other end what about the barrow wight's they seamed to be a great evil (no offence BW). I have been wondering what diffrence the involvement of these inactive charactors would have made in the war. a body changer who is so powerful when angerd and in bear shape that he could change the tides of one of the most gusom battles (the battle of 5 armies) single handedly, and another wizard(no matter how lazy [img]smilies/biggrin.gif[/img] ) could have been increadable assets to the company of the ring.