A dwarf as ringbearer?... I like the idea too, although I don't think it would make the quest easier, but anyway the are the most resistant too dominion. But than Bilbo should have given the Ring too a dwarf instead if to Frodo, and that hasn't happened. The Ringbearers couldn't just give it away (except Sam but he only bore it a short while). Bilbo needs all the 'help' of Gandalf to let it pass on to Frodo. And in The Shadow of the Past (FotR - LotR) we find this:
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'...He weighed the Ring in his hand, hesitating, and forcing himself to remember all that Gandalf had told him; and then with an effort of will he made a movement, as if to cast it away - but he found that he had put it back in his pocket.
Gandalf laughed grimly. "You see? Already you too, Frodo, cannot easily let it go, nor will to damage it. And I could not "make" you - except by force, which would break your mind.
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No Ringbearer could let the Ring go of his free will. The Ring himself decided. So I guess that even at the Council of Elrond, Frodo already was doomed to go with his burden.
Maybe if the Ring had come to a dwarf, it might have gone quicker or slower, easier or harder...who knows? But remember one thing: if someone else had found the Ring Gandalf most likely wouldn't be present from the beginning of the finding of the Ring for he knew from that day that there was something wrong.
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'When did I first begin to guess?' he mused, searching back in his memory. 'Let me see - it was in the year that the White Council drove the power from Mirkwood, just before the Battle of the Five Armies, that Bilbo found his ring. A shadow fell on my heart then, though I did not know yet what I feared.'
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