enter Elladan: *raises eyebrow* "Tales you could tell, Halbarad? Surely also about yourself, I hope!" *turns to Aragorn* "Here, little brother, I've welded your comb again. That was the, what, fiftieth time? I have no idea what you do to your hair to break out the prongs (*) out of a steel comb every two weeks or so!"
(*) I have no idea what these thinkgies of a comb are truly called, this is the dictionary's suggestion.
But if Aragorn is breaking STEEL off his comb they definitely DO sound like prongs.... those things farmers use to pick up manurey straw and turn the hay with. (and keep off intruders!) So Aragorns comb must look like
This is really sturdy - and these are PRONGS.
This is hopefully more like Aragorn's comb... with TEETH !
Teehee... and poor Cairi... LICE and NITS and nasties.... all worried now about his hair!
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Date: 2016-08-03 02:55 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2016-08-03 03:03 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2016-08-03 03:07 pm (UTC)*me, obviously still freaked out about lice*
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Date: 2016-08-03 03:25 pm (UTC)Halbarad: "...doesn't get lice? Really?" Sotto voce: Oh the tales I could tell...
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Date: 2016-08-03 04:08 pm (UTC)(*) I have no idea what these thinkgies of a comb are truly called, this is the dictionary's suggestion.
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Date: 2016-08-03 04:21 pm (UTC)We call them "teeth" here in the US. :)
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Date: 2016-08-03 05:11 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2016-08-03 04:22 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2016-08-04 10:37 am (UTC)This is really sturdy - and these are PRONGS.
This is hopefully more like Aragorn's comb... with TEETH !
Teehee... and poor Cairi... LICE and NITS and nasties.... all worried now about his hair!