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Message: <blockquote data-quote="pezagent" data-source="post: 1287342" data-attributes="member: 15568">Hi Merlion,Both the Eagles and Gandalfs return are not examples of deux es machina--they weren't forces of great power that intervined with the story and abruptly ended it. The Eagles are an obvious choice to help the characters escape from Mt. Doom as they were introduced earlier in the story. If Gandolf arrived on a flying carpet then there would be inconsistency within the story--but it still wouldn't be deux es machina.Gandalf's return is more of a red herring if one is looking for a literary term to describe the event. Personally I probably wouldn't go that far, however, as only the characters reactions to his fall lead us to believe that Gandalf dies. The narrative never pushes the question or suggests that he is dead.Regards,/johnny <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /></blockquote>