Yet this prince is also getting in the way of Taran’s budding romantic interest, not to mention his duty. Unlike Ellidyr, Rhun doesn’t expect love and respect based on his blood. Like Ellidyr, he desperately wants to be loved and respected. This time around, the prince Rhun is sweet and friendly and painfully aware of his own uselessness and ineptitude. He’s brash, self-absorbed, cruel, and consumed with status. In The Black Cauldron, the young prince Ellidyr is everything wrong with the Nobility. One of the things I like about this book is how Alexander flips the script on Taran’s relationship with a potential romantic rival. We meet some new characters and familiar characters make their return. Taran is conflicted, which by the previous book seems to be his wont. It seems that Eilonwy is to be taught how to be a proper princess and eventually be married off. The third book in Lloyd Alexander’s Chronicles of Prydain, The Castle of Llyr finds Taran and Eilonwy about to set off on a journey.
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