Intruders - "Comb"

[wormwood_7]

Author: wormwood_7
Characters: Eowyn and her grandmother Morwen
Rating: G
Warnings: none
Source: LOTR
Disclaimer: These characters belong to Tolkien.

Comments

[engarian]

I like this small glimpse into the childhood of Eowyn. Very nice.

- Erulisse (one L)

[wormwood_7]

Thanks! It was meant as a realistic, but tender everyday scene. Glad you liked it!

[someplacetobe]

The intimacy of this moment drew me in nd yet, also made me feel an intruder on the scene.

[wormwood_7]

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!

[foxrafer]

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.

[wormwood_7]

Thanks! Yes, this was meant to be a calm, happy, everyday moment for Eowyn. A tomboy at peace after a long active day. Thanks for reading!

[curiouswombat]

Lovely - and very realistic, as well as tender, the ages-old ritual of the bug-combing.

[wormwood_7]

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!

[kortirion]

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!

[wormwood_7]

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.

[kortirion]

*nods*

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!!

[wormwood_7]

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