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"I'm not like you, Bilbo"
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I can't help thinking that this dissimilarity between Frodo and Bilbo is what led to Frodo being chosen to go destroy the ring and Bilbo wasn't. In Rivendell, Bilbo volunteers to go himself, and 'fix his own mistake' - but the others don't agree ; plus Gandalf insisted a great deal that he should leave Frodo the ring.
I think that Bilbo would have had as much chance as Frodo to destroy the ring (even more so, as Bilbo succeded in giving it up when he had to, while Frodo cracked at the very last moment).
But what Gandalf foresaw was that Frodo's personality traits, that all of you have pointed out so far - his ability to think things through, his greater sense of resposibility - would make him more suitable for this quest.