Talk:Eilonwy/@comment-4098886-20140623144956/@comment-24557651-20140629151934

But what Agustinaldo is trying to say is that Mulan is still not a princess in her story. Does that not make her being a part of the franchise completely unnecessary? Now don't get me wrong, Mulan is one of my favorite disney characters but technically she shouldn't be in the franchise because she is not a princess by birth or marriage.

Eilonwy on the other hand is a princess by birth. If you have read the books it tells more about her princess and family. Her full title in the book series is "princess Eilonwy of Llyr, Daughter of Angrahard, Daughter of Regat of the Royal House of Llyr" so Eilonwy is by birth a princess in her story. The movie didn't state that because I guess they wanted to cut out a lot of characters from the movie for time possibly. I'm not one hundred percent sure that is the case but it would seem more reasonable; Having too many characters in a movie could take away or derive the spotlight of the main characters or possibly be too hard or complicated to animate so many characters or maybe it would go over the budge, which case in point; the black cauldron was one of the most expensive films to be made at the time so this could be another unsure reason as to why There aren't as many characters in the movie as there was in the book.

Now as I do see your point, in the movie, her title doesn't add to story or plot, but if they made the movie (and possibly more sequels based on the series) more like its book, Eilonwy's title would be more necessary. However, her princess title in the movie is important because She is the Horned Kings hostage because of her bauble. She comes from a royal family with a line of powerful enchantresses and the sea people of Llyr (again something stated in the books, not the movie.) and her bauble can bring out her full ancestral power. But since they don't mention any of that, that makes her bauble useless in the film. But all in all tigerfan45, after reading this does Eilonwy being a princess be entirely necessary. While it doesn't show it in the movie, her character from the story shows she is a completely necessary character to the story.