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Book: The Castle of Lyr (1966)
Series: The Chronicles of Prydain #3
Author: Lloyd Alexander
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I also like castles on the covers
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My 172 Favorite Films:
87. The Black Cauldron (1985). High fantasy/Animated.
Written by Roy Disney.
Directed by Richard Rich, Ted Berman.
Starring Grant Bardsley, John Hurt.
#filmsky #banned #fantasy #animation #waltdisney #lloydalexander #prydain
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The best children’s fantasy series you’ve never heard of. The story of Assistant Pig Keeper Taran and his friends spans 5 wonderful books, which are exciting, funny, touching, and ultimately epic.
#tinybookreviews #booksky #Prydain #LloydAlexander
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“In the algebra of fantasy, A times B doesn’t have to equal B times A. But, once established, the equation must hold throughout the story.” --Lloyd Chudley Alexander (1924– 2007) From "The Flat-Heeled Muse", Horn Book Magazine (1 April 1965) #writerslift #life #authors #love #art #coffee #diary #write #books #amwriting #quotes #LloydAlexander Lloyd Alexander, the beloved fantasy writer behind "The Chronicles of Prydain," once explained storytelling with an imaginative math metaphor. In his 1965 essay “The Flat-Heeled Muse,” he notes that in fantasy writing, unlike real algebra, the order you set things up in doesn’t have to behave normally at first - magic, odd rules, unusual elements can start in whatever order the author needs. But once those rules are in place, the internal logic of the world must stay consistent. Break it, and the story starts to feel like a mess, not a magical journey. What Alexander really nails is this: believability in fiction isn’t about realism, it’s about consistency. Readers will accept talking animals, time travel, or enchanted swords if the story honors the rules it creates. When a tale keeps its internal math straight, even if it’s strange math, the characters feel real, and the world holds together. That’s why your favorite fantasy worlds feel “true” even when they’re wildly impossible, because the logic stays intact from page one to the last.
“In the algebra of fantasy, A times B doesn’t have to equal B times A. But, once established, the equation must hold throughout the story.”
--Lloyd Chudley Alexander (1924– 2007)
From "The Flat-Heeled Muse", Horn Book Magazine (1 April 1965)
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After many years of internal debate, I've finally decided this is my all-time favourite book. I bought this edition back in 1998 and it is one of my most cherished possessions.
#lloydalexander #prydain #brianfroud #middlegradefantasy #books
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“Fantasy is hardly an escape from reality. It’s a way of understanding it.”#lloydalexander #fantasy #quotes
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40 años de THE BLACK CAULDRON (1985), largometraje inspirado en las novelas de Lloyd Alexander cuyo fracaso le ganó el apodo de "la película que casi mató a Disney". Un trabajo ambicioso de fantasía oscura, el tiempo la revaloró entre la afición. #theblackcauldron #elcalderomágico #lloydalexander
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Happy Anniversary to ‘The Black Cauldron’! To celebration the blog is live on this piece (February 2025).
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“Fantasy is hardly an escape from reality. It’s a way of understanding it.”#lloydalexander #fantasy #quotes
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“Fantasy is hardly an escape from reality. It’s a way of understanding it.”#lloydalexander #fantasy #quotes
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“Fantasy is hardly an escape from reality. It’s a way of understanding it.”#lloydalexander #fantasy #quotes
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Perusing #AVClub comments about #WheelofTime's cancellation, and my take-home impression is that my fellow "Welsh Tract" native #LloydAlexander isn't nearly as well-known among fans of post- #Tolkien fantasy as Sanderson or GRRM, but really ought to be. (1/2)
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a graduation speech at Nova as valedictorian of his Radnor High class before going off to #Stanford.) The Welsh Tract is the opposite of nowhere. It's an area where popes and presidents and physicists pass through and make their bones. Have you read #LloydAlexander by the way?
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“Fantasy is hardly an escape from reality. It’s a way of understanding it.”#lloydalexander #fantasy #quotes
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“Fantasy is hardly an escape from reality. It’s a way of understanding it.”#lloydalexander #fantasy #quotes
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Sigue leyendo. Es una de las más maravillosas aventuras que cualquier persona puede tener.
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"Once you have courage to look upon evil, seeing it for what it is and naming it by its true name, it is powerless against you, and you can destroy it." —from Lloyd Alexander's The Book of Three
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“The world will laud me
Its praise will reward me
And, I Fflewddur Fflam Will find fame!”
-Fflewddur Fflam Minstrel of Minstrels
#TheBlackCauldron #1985 #Gallery1988 #LloydAlexander #TheChroniclesofPrydain #prydain #FflewddurFflam @procreate.com
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“Oh, that wicked, wicked king! You know he stole me. He thought my bauble could tell him where som old cauldron was.“
-Princess Eilonwy
#TheBlackCauldron #1985 #Gallery1988 #LloydAlexander #TheChroniclesofPrydain #Eilonwy #PrincessEilonwy
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“Fantasy is hardly an escape from reality. It’s a way of understanding it.”#lloydalexander #fantasy #quotes
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"I don't believe it! I've never seen a sword like that! I've got to have that sword! Listen, carefully.
We'll trade that cauldron for the sword!"
-Orddu the Witch
#TheBlackCauldron #1985 #Gallery1988
#LloydAlexander #chroniclesofprydain
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“You don’t realize who I am! I shall sing of your dastardly deed! I’m Fflewddur Fflam! Minstrel of minstrels! Balladeer to the grandest courts in all the land!”
-Fflewddur Fflam Minstrel of Minstrels
#TheBlackCauldron #1985 #Gallery1988 #LloydAlexander
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“Taran of Caer Dallben, the greatest warrior in all Prydain! A true hero!”
-Man
#TheBlackCauldron #1985 #Gallery1988 #LloydAlexander #TheChroniclesofPrydain #taran
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“Ooh, poor miserable Gurgi deserves fierce smakcings and whackings on his poor tender head. Always left with no munhings, and crunchings!”
-Gurgi
#TheBlackCauldron #1985 #Gallery1988 #LloydAlexander #TheChroniclesofPrydain #gurgi #procreate @procreate.com
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“You must leave here at once. Take Hen Wen to the hidden cottage at the edge of the Forbidden Forest. Hide there, and never bring her out until I come for you.”
-Dallben the Enchanter
#TheBlackCauldron #1985 #Gallery1988 #TheChroniclesofPrydain #lloydalexander
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‘Oh, no, Great Lord. Not go in there. Forget the piggy…..Oh, no, no no! It’s a terrible place!…If Great Lord go into evil castle, poor Gurgi will never see his friend again! No. Never!”
-Gurgi
#TheBlackCauldron #1985 #Gallery1988 #lloydalexander
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“Hen Wen, from you i do beseech. Knowledge that lies beyond my reach. Troubled thoughts weigh on your heart. Pray you now those thoughts impart.”
-Dallben the Enchanter
#TheBlackCauldron #1985 #Gallery1988 #LloydAlexander #henwen @procreate.com
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