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The problem of a "what if ..." discussion like this one lies in the fact that the reported events worked towards the doom predicted, while the questioner often tries to sigels out 1 event that he would change for the sack of discussion.
If the Three had been free from Saurons influence (the One never made, the One lost for ever, the Three not influenced by the distruction of the One) then the Doom of Mandos would have found other ways to remove the Three from Middle-Earth sooner or later.
By the way: I don't think that Galadriel is realy wishing for such things. She rather pionts out how ideel and useless such wishes against the fact of history are.
Mandos is not the maker of the fate he presages. He does only speak his knowledge about the future gained from the Music of the Ainur and the vision of Iluvatar. Thus for all but Men the Dooms of Mandos are unavoidable in the longrun.
Thus in the end, to have the Three operating freely, we have to ask what if the Doom of Mandos wouldn't have been like it was. But that change would have changed the whole story of Middle-Earth and is thus not very interresting i.m.o..
Respectfully
Findegil
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