Charisma?

[Lalwendë]

Originally Posted by Raynor

they were simple, ordinary people, which were elevated to a higher status in order to achieve their quest

Or rather, they were elevated to a higher status by achieving their quest. If they were given some kind of Power Up this would both make them instantly anything but ordinary and diminish their astonishing achievement. They serve to show us that we can all do it (whatever 'it' might be) if we try hard enough. And then going on from what Formendacil says, the Hobbits are also not 'ordinary' in the sense that they are not stereotypical Hobbits (in fact are any of the Nine 'stereotypical'?); all of them are a bit 'queer' apart from Sam, and he becomes that way simply by taking part in this adventure and doing what a stereotypical Hobbit would not do.

All of which points to needing actors with a little charisma to play the roles - actors who could show the strain of trying to do their very best without Power Ups and actors who were not stereotypical. Which I'm afraid some of them were...just vapid pretty boys and pretty girls.