Charisma?

[Raynor]

Ah, but I do not think the hobbits in the fellowship were so "ordinary". I think they are the very opposite of ordinary. Look at this in regard to a discussion of hobbits and how those who were "chosen" were not ordinary at all:

A minor comment: Bilbo was not part of the fellowship; and even of him a good deal of his abilities that got him selected are general to hobbits. Although the spark element is to be noticed, Tolkien also wrote to Milton Waldman that The Hobbit is "a study of simple ordinary man, neither artistic nor noble and heroic (but not without the undeveloped seeds of these things) against a high setting", emphasis added.