The story has many things that affected the story, so it's really hard to say what would happen if someone of the characters was missing... I'll try to tell the things about the beginning where it is just a bit more possible.
We can't remove Gandalf at all, maybe he may stay at Orthanc for a change /have to think it over later on this/
And here comes the Shire... lets drag Merry out aww what happened?!? No one to organize the things... the others wouldn't last long, no TB's would help in distance... He is the one to make all preparations, he's the one to do some help in the Old Wood, tho not v. much but w/out him no one semi confident in the wood would leave...
More to come but now I don't have time (:
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"Hobbits! Well, what next? I have heard of strange doings in this land, but I have seldom heard of a hobbit sleeping out of doors under a tree. Three of them! There's something mighty queer behind this."
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