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{{quote|''One evening Sam came into the study and found his master looking very strange. He was very pale and his eyes seemed to [[Thousand-Yard Stare|see things far away]].
''"What's the matter, Mr. Frodo?" said Sam.
''"I am wounded," he answered, "wounded; it will never really heal".''|''[[The Lord of the Rings|Return of the King]]''}}
It's bad enough that scars tend to be [[Scars Are Forever|permanent]] and sometimes [[Achey Scars|painful]] in fiction. The ''really'' unlucky, however, get something even worse: a wound that won't heal ''at all'', and remains open and raw long after it ought to have healed.
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** In the first ''[[The Lord of the Rings]]'' book, Frodo was stabbed in the shoulder with a Morgul-blade by the Witch-King. A fragment of the blade burrowed towards his heart, but it was removed and his life saved. Despite this, even after the fall of Sauron and all his minions the wound never fully heals.
** In ''[[The Silmarillion]]'', unhealing wounds that never stop hurting are what the silmarils inflicted on anyone who touched them without being worthy (i.e., pure of heart and innocent of wicked deeds). That didn't stop less-than-innocent characters from stealing and even ''[[Too Dumb to Live|swallowing]]'' them.
* In Ian Watson's novel ''Queenmagic, Kingmagic'', injuries inflicted by magic can only be healed by personally killing the magician who injured you. If someone else happens to kill them first, you're stuck with a permanently unhealed injury for the rest of your life. This can be very nasty if it's something like a broken arm or fractured skull.
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