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Leannholsclaw Leannholsclaw 13 November 2023
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Would it be neat if The Black Cauldron movie is in Kingdom Hearts games

Sora and his friends traveled to Prydain and fight the Heartless, Nobodies, and the Unversed.

They met Taran who is walking the pig named Hen Wen who is magical. Taran told them about the Horned King who wants the Black Cauldron to rule the world.

Allies: Taran

Assistants: Princess Eilonwy, Fflewddur Fflam

Boss Battle: The Horned King

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NoahDavidHenson NoahDavidHenson 25 April 2013
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On Prydain: Historical Reality?

If Prydain might have ever existed in what is now Wales, its existence had to have occurred prior not only to the Roman invasion of the early 1st century AD, but prior to the internal division of the region into the distinct tribal groups recorded by the Roman conquerors.These tribes -- the Deceangli (in the northeast), Ordovices (central/west), Gangani (northwest), Cornovii (east/northeast), Demetae (southwest) and Silures (southeast) -- were divisions which had evidently been in place for centuries prior to 48 AD, when the Roman military campaign began in the west of Britain.

Any nation-state approximating what Lloyd Alexander conceived of as Prydain would have been largely, but not entirely, self-sufficient (that is, relying on a minimum…

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NoahDavidHenson NoahDavidHenson 20 April 2013
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Tunnell's Prydain Companion

I got a little thrill today when I finally got a hardback copy of The Prydain Companion by Michael O. Tunnell -- a reference guide to Alexander's Chronicles -- in the mail. I've been waiting for it for three weeks, checking my little apartment-complex mail slot every day with hope in my dewey little eyes. I've wanted to get my hands on this handy guide book since I heard about it in the 90s (it was first published in 1989). My copy is the 2003 Holt edition, with a cover illustration that evokes the original Evaline Ness covers (though I think the piece itself is by Sasha Meret). And it's pure delight to finally own it.

After leafing through the book at length, I couldn't be more pleased. It's a medium-size, medium-weight hardcover, with a smoot…

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NoahDavidHenson NoahDavidHenson 7 April 2013
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Love and the Art of Prydain Wiki Maintenance

I love this site. I loved it six weeks ago, when I discovered it while looking for fan sites and artwork related to the series. And I love it now that I've invested hundreds of hours in editing, creating, uploading, examining and expanding its every page, image and link. I found it a very promising skeleton of a site, with some of the hard work already done for me in terms of format, structure and style. And as I sit back and review what the Prydain Wiki has become, I cannot help but smile -- fondly and with a modicum of pride -- at what I see before me.

Five of the six books in the Prydain series have now been given complete chapter (or story) synopses, replete with links and graphics accompanying every summary. Only The High King remains, an…

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NoahDavidHenson NoahDavidHenson 15 March 2013
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The Best Prydain Site?

Hello Companions! This is a quick note to explain my hopes and wishes for this wiki. In brief, I want to make it the best resource available for the Prydain series. The most comprehensive, the best written, the clearest and most easily navigable, and one offering the best array of graphics -- from drawings to photos to maps to paintings -- out of any Prydain volume, digital or in print.

I think that goal is attainable. Working with what was already here when I arrived, I feel like I've already made considerable inroads into realizing my dream site. But there's still a fair amount of work to do. Chapters from Taran Wanderer and The High King need to be fleshed out, given more detail and greater accuracy. (I've expanded all the chapters from the…

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NoahDavidHenson NoahDavidHenson 5 March 2013
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On Prydain

On Prydain
Musings on Mapping the High Fantasy Series

"Prydain is not Wales -- not entirely, at least." So author Lloyd Alexander explained the ephemeral connection between history and legend, geography and imagination, with which he imbued his magical, yet very real-seeming, land. Those of us who have tried our hands at mapping Prydain, with occasional recourse to a real-world map of Wales, can attest to the distinction. Yet there is some of Wales in Prydain; the name itself is the Middle Welsh term for the country. And after all, we know the fictional Prydain was inspired in part by Alexander's military service in Wales, where he learned combat intelligence during World War II. Another part was the so-called Mabinogion, a collection of mediev…

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NoahDavidHenson NoahDavidHenson 24 February 2013
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New here, but old in the ways of Prydain

Hello, Companions! I must be in love... because I've just spent the last twelve+ hours editing, correcting, and adding to the Prydain Wiki -- and Great Belin, I'm exhausted!

My reasons for being here are clear. I've loved Lloyd Alexander's Chronicles of Prydain since I was a wee lad in the late 1970s, and I've re-read the series many times over the years. Recently I've begun reading the books out-loud to my loverly and appreciate wife, Joanna, doing all the accents and voices, and trying to get the emotions and tonalities just right for her delight or dismay, as the narrative demands. Currently we're on Book Three, about half-way through the series, and she is loving it almost as much as I am.


In introducing her to the books (she is an ardent …


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Toothless100 Toothless100 30 July 2011
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Improvements

I've stated similar things on Community Messages, but hey.


I've found a few points on the wiki that need improving:

  • Stub articles need to be improved. If you sufficiently expand an article, please remove the stub template.
  • Character articles need to be categorized into The Book of Three Characters, The Black Cauldron Characters, The Castle of Llyr Characters, Taran Wanderer Characters, and The High King Characters.
  • Chapter articles need to be created.

Toothless100 - Talk to me 08:55, July 30, 2011 (UTC)

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