What I got from the style of the Elvish armies throughout the Hobbit and Lord of the Rings movies was that they were armies which had essentially infinite time to hone and refine the art of war, and thus were so ridiculously precise and well-drilled. I never found it too disconcerting, if anything it reinforced the fact that they weren't just humans with pointy ears.
For the other forces, though, it didn't make as much sense to me.
For the other forces, though, it didn't make as much sense to me.