Talk:Orddu, Orwen, and Orgoch/@comment-30591854-20180709082539

Now you can say about The Black Cauldron as a movie what you want (as it was one of the worst movies when you only take the money flow it generated in order), but these witches may be one of the best characters in all the Disney Classics. How many people in Disney movies do you know with such a major role who are neither good nor evil.

Indirectly it's also them who taught Taran a very important lesson about what is really important in life (as he was willing to refuse the sword he always desired to ask for Gurgi's life in stead). And the original bargain to obtain the cauldron, which turned out to be ab act of total stupidity from Taran's side, also shows that you should be very careful about bargains you make and that you should also think ahead. When Taran (and the others) decided to obtain the cauldron, none of them thought for it one moment, what to do once they obtained it, which would have been a more clever thing to do. A lot of people only think short term without realizing what will or might happen next. Taran could have asked the witches how to destroy the cauldron before accepting their bargain (no matter how distrustworthy they look, they would very likely have spoken the truth), but since he never asked, the fact that the cauldron was undestructable was only revealed after the bargain, which was a bit late, but the witches DID have a point when they stated that Taran only asked for the cauldron and that it's not their fault he can't do anything with it.

Although these witches appear pretty vulgar in their behavior, they are not without honor as they are very insulted when Fflewdor Fflam says they got no real power, when they hestitate to take on Taran's offer to trade the cauldron for Gurgi, but in stead of punishing Fflewdor for that insult, they do in fact resurrect Gurgi in order to prove they *do* have real power, this way keeping their pride and dignity, also showing that they are not really evil.

In fact, I guess you can make these witches do anything to make you the happiest person on earth as long as you strike the correct bargains....