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Well, there is finger-related symbolism (wow, that doesn't sound right). Nine fingers on Frodo and Sauron, nine members of the Fellowship, nine Nazgul, Nine bastions of evil, etc. That's probably just general linking symbolism; Fellowship - Nazgul, Frodo - Sauron, and onward.
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"What mortal feels not awe/Nor trembles at our name,
Hearing our fate-appointed power sublime/Fixed by the eternal law.
For old our office, and our fame,"
-Aeschylus, Song of the Furies
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