this is an excellent point. I recently re-read and it was really painfully clear that aside from Gandalf, no one uses magic. Ever. Aragorn at best has a couple of "I sense something" moments and maybe has a strong will to wrestle the palatir from Sauron but he's not really magical. Galadriel at best made a pool of water into a mirror but nothing else magical is ever shown. The close of the Third Age is just the final period on a paragraph of waning that began thousands of years earlier, magic and elves were already more or less gone from Middle-Earth by that time. the ringbearers were just lingering because Sauron.

dunno how the movies made it out to be because I noped out of that shit halfway through Fellowship.