I wasn't sure, when I first saw this and read that passage, whether the blade was sort of detatching itself with that fragment in Frodo, or dissolving because someone other than the Witch-King picked it up. I thought it was the latter, because if it were the former, the blade would've disintegrated an instant after Frodo was stabbed.
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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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