These was then changed (I think in Lidless Eye) to this:
BRINGING CHARACTERS INTO PLAY
During your organization phase, you may perform one and only one of the following activities:
You may play a character card. You must have enough general influence or direct influence available to control the character.(...)
But the Turn Sequence Ruling changes it further to this:If you bring a character into play during your organization phase and then do not have enough influence to control him, the character just brought into play must be returned to your hand at the end of your organization phase.
Considering these rules, people do stuff such as using The Mouth's ability to bring a resource from the discard pile to the deck or playing a sage only to play Mavel's told/Voices of malice. Or nastier things, such as playing the new character using an untapped copy of an already tapped Haven.
Playing Characters
Rules Erratum: You may play a character even if you do not have enough influence to control them. However, if there are any characters you do not have the influence to control at the end of your organization phase, the character you brought into play this turn must be returned to your hand.
So after this introduction, here is my question:
Let's say I play a character without enough General Influence to control him. Am I forced to do whatever combination of moving characters between general influence and direct influence to make room for the new character? Can I intentionally organise my company in a way that makes the new character going back to my hand?
If I must do any available combination to make room for the new character, does this include moving character between GI and DI, but also things such as transferring items affecting direct influence, transferring items affecting the mind, moving leader commands back to the hand, etc?
Some examples:
Making room just by organising characters between DI and GI:
A company with Aragorn, Fatty and Sam uses 16 GI. I want to play marvels told so I bring Cirdan to do that, but I want Cirdan to go back to my hand because I want him to do his thing once Pallando is in play. If I play Cirdan, Fatty could become follower of Aragorn, Sam can be follower of Cirdan, and I'll be using 17 GI so there's enough room. Am I forced to do this? Can I intentionally maintain the hobbits under GI so Cirdan can bounce back to my hand?
Transfering items:
Gimli with elf-stone controlls Bard Bowman and Annalena. Celeborn is under GI so I am using 12 in total. If I play Elrond there is not enough room and should bounce back to my hand. Juggling with character under DI and GI does not solve the issue either. But there's a way to keep Elrond in play: I could transfer the elf-stone to Elrond, who could control Celeborn, and Gimli could keep controlling Annalena leaving Bard Bowman under GI, totalling 18 used GI. Am I forced to make room for Elrond this way?
Leaders:
Lt. of Angmar, Lt. of Morgul and Tros are using 20 IG. Orders from Lugbruz is in play and I'll report you is in play in both troll leaders. I want to play Doeth to use Voices of Malice, but I do not want to have him around after that. There's no room for Doeth, but if I move one I'll report you to my hand (as allowed by the card) I could keep Doeth in play under the influence of one of the troll leaders. Am I forced to do so?