The Chronicles of Prydain

Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 34. Chapters: Prydain books, Prydain characters, Prydain locations, Annwn, Gwydion, Lloyd Alexander, The Black Cauldron, Princess Eilonwy, The Foundling and Other Tales from Prydain, Taran, Golden Pelydryn, Fflewddur Fflam, Hen Wen, Orddu, Orwen and Orgoch, Gwystyl, Horned King, Free Commots, Marshes of Morva, Dallben, Gurgi, Cauldron-Born, Coll, Achren, Gwythaints, Glew, Caer Dathyl, Spiral Castle, Magg, Prince Rhun, Fair Folk, Doli, Angharad, Adaon, Mirror of Llunet, Isle of Mona, High King Math, Ellidyr, Rhitta, Summer Country, Black Crochan, Llyan, Caer Dallben, Kaw, Melyngar. Excerpt: The Black Cauldron is a 1985 animated fantasy film produced by Walt Disney Pictures and originally released to theatres on July 24, 1985. The twenty-fifth animated feature in the Walt Disney Animated Classics, the film is based on Lloyd Alexander's Chronicles of Prydain book series, which is in turn based on Welsh mythology. The film centers around the evil Horned King who attempts to secure the Black Cauldron in order to rule the world. The Horned King is opposed by the heroes Taran, Princess Eilonwy, Fflewddur Fflam, and a creature named Gurgi. The film is directed by Ted Berman and Richard Rich, who had directed the previous Disney animated feature The Fox and the Hound, and features the voices of Grant Bardsley, Susan Sheridan, Freddie Jones, Nigel Hawthorne, and John Hurt. A video game based on the film was released in 1986. On the small farm of Caer Dallben, Taran (Grant Bardsley) is an Assistant Pigkeeper to the enchanter Dallben (Freddie Jones), with dreams of becoming a great warrior. However, he has to put the daydreaming aside when his charge, an oracular pig named Hen Wen is kidnapped by an evil lord known as the Horned King (John Hurt). The villain hopes Hen Wen will show him the way to The Black Cauldron, which has the power to create a legion of invincible undead warriors, (known as "The Cauldron Born"). With the aid of Princess Eilonwy (Susan Sheridan), an exaggerating middle-aged bard named Fflewddur Fflam (Nigel Hawthorne), and a pestering but ultimately loyal creature called Gurgi (John Byner), Taran tries to save the world of Prydain from the Horned King. As the new friends face witches, fairies, magic swords, and the Cauldron itself, Taran starts to learn what being a hero really means and that some things are more important than glory. The story begins with Taran looking out of the window of his home of Caer Dallben daydreaming about being a warrior. He tells Dallben that he wants to go and fight in the war being waged in Prydain, but Dallben f