Last night, I saw this meme on facebook that was saying “I am not a disney princess”. At the bottom of it, it showed Princess Eilonwy.

This princess is a character of Alexander Lloyd’s “The Chronicles of Prydain” and appeared in the film “The Black Cauldron”. She is about 12 years old, designed with flowing blonde hair and a delicate hair. She has pink lips, blue eyes. She has a black band on the back of her hair and wears and pink dress with a dark violet bodice and white long puffy sleeves that include white petticoat and flat black shoes.

She is characterized as plucky, cynical and talkative. She is show to have a tendency to go off into rants at Taran for seemingly trivial reasons. Despite the fact that she has a naturally strong-willed personality, she can be quite affectionate and emotional. A couple of examples are her anxiety after escaping from the Horned King’s Castle and her genuine sadness at Taran’s near-sacrifice during the film’s end. By the end of the movie, she drops her defenses significantly and she and Taran begin to be romantically involved.

One of her interesting characteristics, is that she appears to have magical capabilities that save Taran and Ffewddur from the Horned King’s prison.

In the film, the Horned King takes her hostage with the hope that her magic bauble could find the Black Cauldrons. She and Taran first meet in the lower ruins under the castle, when the princess is searching around and attempting to find a route to escape instead of leaving. She allows Taran to go with her and escape the castle. There, the two come across a mystic sword known as Dyrnwyn and free Fflewdurr Fflam from his imprisonment. This odd group of friends later travel to the realm of the Fair Folk and reunite with the pig known as Hen Wen. The king of the Fair Folk sends Doli with them as an escort to the Marshes of Morva in order to retrieve the Cauldron. After they receive it by trading away Durnwyn, they are captured again by the Horned King who then unleashes the Cauldron Born. After Gurgi sacrifices himself within the cauldron, the friend trade it back to the Witches of Morva in exchange for him. The bargain is granted.

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