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Originally Posted by Boromir88
There's this Latin phrase (please bear with my spelling) Deus ex machina, It stands for "god of machines." Basically, it's a term used in movie directing, when the director can't figure out how to solve a plot, so he pulls these supernatural beings that come in and kill everyone, sort of a sloppy way of putting it together.
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Hmm, I wonder whether Tolkien himself ever used
Deus ex Machina.
