Gothmog says it in the third movie after they take Osgiliath. "The Age of Men is over, the time of the Orc has come." No such statement is ever included in the books. Such a statement would have implied that the Age of Men had started and would end in the near future. It hadn't started, yet.
The Age of Men is specifically a version of the Fourth Age where Sauron loses.
In related prophecies, the way the Witch King would be disposed of ("not by the hand of man") was really emphasized in the movies. Since the movies removed the source of the prediction (Glorfindel), the prediction takes full prophecy form. For some reason, the Witch King seems aware of this fact, too, though in the books, he is only as vulnerable as any other of the Nazgul.
Glorfindel says that the Witch King will not die to a Man/male to make sure that Earnur, King of Gondor, wouldn't get himself killed during a battle in the middle of a war with Angmar. If Earnur had chased after the Witch King to try and kill him, he may have succeeded, but he would have most likely died, the battle of Fornost would not have happened, and Angmar would have survived into the late Third Age.
The movie makers really go to town with references that they, the reader would be aware of, but not the characters themselves should ever be aware of. Both of these are full on mistakes in understanding by the filmmakers. Your response is understandable.







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