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I dont remember about the rivalry between Legolas and Gimli, but the army of the dead is straight from the books. There ate several points in the narrative where Tolkien seems to hint that divine intervention is at work, most notably the role of gollum biting off frodo's finger and then falling into the volcano. Its not just a convenient plot point; its Tolkien's worldview that God ( or Iru) directs all that happens.
I don't remeber the movies, but didn't the dead finish the battle around Minas Tirith? In books, they defeated the fleet of bad guys near the mouth of Anduin, freeing significant army, which then takes the ships anf goes to Minas Tirith. The rest of the battle there is not unusually supernatural, if I remember correctly. I remeber not likig this part of the film. I understand it, but I think this part in particular felt very abrupt.
Fwiw, deus ex machina (God in the machine) is fairly appropriate for exactly that.
TIL that this phrase is "deus" for God, not "deux" for two.
"shit from the machine" is what we should call ai slop
deuces ex machina lmao, that's a great idea.
There's no more fitting depiction than the one in Mirai Nikki/ The Future Diary".