Golden Pelydryn

Golden Pelydryn is a minor protagonist in the film The Black Cauldron. She's the Eilonwy's best friend.

Personnality
This is a bauble is semi-sentient, able to move under its own power and seeming to possess a degree of intelligence.It is also shown as being rather large, almost the size of Eilonwy's own head.She love hunt the rats. She is afraid of witches. It disappears in the middle of the film and reappears to Morva. It is not seen when the Horned King raise the dead, at the sacrifice of Gurgi and the resuscitation of the latter. It is seen skip along home in Caer Dallben with Taran, Fflewddur Fflam and Gurgi to the end of the film.

Role in the film
In the film, the Horned King believe that Pelydryn could find the Black Cauldron and kidnapps Eilonwy and her. In the lower ruins under the Horned King's castle (once the home of King Rhitta), Taran meets Eilonwy and her and is surprised to see Golden Pelydryn. He touches it and it shines, then it. She gets up to Taran. He finds that it illuminates and Eilonwy explains that it is a magic bauble.She turns around her dead. After that Eilonwy told the reason for his emprisonment, Pelydryn chase the rats who dragged. This is the only scene where his personnality is developped. There, the 2 come across the mystic sword, Dyrnwyn and free Fflewddur Fflam from his imprisonment. During those two things, it is light blue because of the dark. She is the first to going see Fflewddur Fflam in his solitaru confinment. Afterwards, Pelydryn is not seen until the scene where Gurgi indicates where is the "wicked cauldron" but there throughout the piece. It hides when the Witches of Morva they discover they haven't more frogs. Afterwards, Pelydryn is not seen again until the end of the film.

Trivia

 * In the novels of The Chronicles of Prydain, the Golden Pelydryn is rather small, roughly the size of a baseball or similar, and incapable of moving on its own; Eilonwy carries it at all times. It is also unable to light on its own, as the movie indicates it can do. In the film, Eilonwy's bauble is never identified by its proper name; this is understandable, as the name of the Golden Pelydryn was not known to the cast until the third book.