List of literary characters with nine fingers
This is a list of literary characters with nine fingers, assuming for the sake of argument and simplicity that a thumb is a finger.
- Bink, the main character of the first two of Piers Anthony's Xanth novels. Accidentally cut off his middle finger as a child while playing with a large knife. Could've been reattached readily with magic but he was embarassed of the accident and buried the finger, letting it rot, and hiding his hand. While on his travels to see The Good Magician Humfrey, Bink encountered a healing spring. While retrieving some of it's water for a mortally wounded soldier, the water splashed onto his hand and restored his middle finger just like new.
- Frodo Baggins, from The Lord of the Rings had one finger bitten off by Gollum and was known thereafter as "Frodo of the Nine Fingers"
- Margo Tenenbaum (played by Gwyneth Paltrow), the brilliant playwriter of The Royal Tenenbaums
- Nadia Cherneschevsky, the constructions engineer of the Mars Trilogy of Kim Stanley Robinson
- Peter Pettigrew, friend of Harry Potter's father. This fact is not revealed until the third book, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban.
- Rosie, in Rosie and the Dance of the Dinosaurs - a children's book about a child with nine fingers
- Sauron, from The Lord of the Rings book, during the time he took physical form, who had his ring finger cut off by Isildur.
- Tim, from Eric Bogosian's play, Suburbia, and the movie of the same name, cut off one finger in order to be discharged from the US Air Force.
- Violet Blake from the Remnants series, had a Worm eat through her right index finger.
- The narrator in A Prayer for Owen Meany, by John Irving had his right index finger cut off by his best friend in an effort to prevent the narrator from being drafted during the Vietnam War.