That's interesting. I take that as a good thing. This was meant to be intimate in a realistic way. Drawing on some personal experience of combing daughter's hair :) Thanks for reading!
I love how calm Eowyn is here. She's probably been as crazy as can be getting all sorts of things stuck in her hair, but in here she's at peace. Lovely.
That is what this is about, you are absolutely right. Bug combing was quite a bonding/love ritual. (In Scandinavian fairy tales it features a lot. The word used in English translations is "combing" in most cases, but that is wrong). Thanks for reading!
I do like some realism in my Middle-earth, I like to know what these characters have got in their pockets... to paraphrase another inhabitant - rather than seeing them exist solely on a diet of shiny heroism and valour.
Such a calm scene of domesticity, and a keen sense of fore-shadowing - very nicely done!
I am delighted you like this slice of tender realism. I have some personal experience. My youngest daughter's very middle-class primary school suffered an attack of resistant nits some years ago, meaning you couldn't use chemicals. In the end the infestation rate was running at nearly 80%, including the teachers and every child was issued with a nit-comb and a set of instructions. It was an experience, lets say.
I couldn't believe the prevalence of nits until my children started school 20 years ago. They came home with the first lot within weeks - I was horrified, I'd never had nits in my life, or even seen one! My child-minder had to catch one and stick it to a piece of Sellotape so I knew what to look for! And of course, every time they got them I got them! I ruined a good few late 80's/early 90's perms dragging nit-combs through my hair. *g*
Both my partner and me got them, inevitably. He did me and I did him. Still remember the things that fell out of my hair and crawled around in the wash hand basin. Yuk
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Such a calm scene of domesticity, and a keen sense of fore-shadowing - very nicely done!
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I couldn't believe the prevalence of nits until my children started school 20 years ago. They came home with the first lot within weeks - I was horrified, I'd never had nits in my life, or even seen one! My child-minder had to catch one and stick it to a piece of Sellotape so I knew what to look for! And of course, every time they got them I got them! I ruined a good few late 80's/early 90's perms dragging nit-combs through my hair. *g*
I'm itching as I write!!
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