The breaking of the staff is called Retributive Strike. It is an ability of his staff. It was in the first edition version of the Staff of the Magi. There is a good chance that they based it on what happened in the book.
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\"Here once was light, that the Valar begrudged to Middle-earth, but now dark levels all. Shall we mourn here deedless forever, a shadow-folk, mist haunting, dripping vain tears in the thankless sea?\"<br />Feanor at Tirion upon Tuna, Of the Flight of the Noldor, The Silmarillion
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