You mean no one liked Lobelia and Otho . . . or the Gaffer . . . or Rose Cotton, who was a pillar of strength and love to wait for her beloved Samwise????
Pippen and Merry were no doubt the boys who refused to grow up until they had their adventures and were great leaders when they returned. Their antics both amused and chagrined the reader.
Frodo was so upper-class, something I could not identify with. If he had fallen into the furnace of Mount Doom, I probably wouldn't have felt much. He was always given preferential treatment. You know: the haves always get the better half. When the going got tough, he was the first one to want to lie down and give up. Perhaps one could blame the influence of the Ring, but when you read of his character, he was pretty much a loner and liked it that way. He never learned to be a team player in his youth, and when things got a little sticky, he just retreated into his own little world of protection under Bilbo's umbrella.
Sam had to be the strongest Hobbit of them all, a working man with two PhDs in the schools of hard knocks and common sense. He didn't know or undertand the word "quit." Miller Time happened when the work was done. He's my kind of guy, if you will.
