12.19.06
Taran Wanderer: Fourth Post (Noble Birth)
Taran is very strange. He wants so badly to be nobly born, but he doesn’t really admit it to himself until he has given up hope on it. I got the impression from the instructions he gives Fflewddur and the few coherent thoughts of his we get to hear that he is more upset about it at this point in the series because he thinks it means losing the ability to marry Eilonwy than anything else. Perhaps she became the reason he had such faith that he was nobly born - he came to believe that they were destined to be together, which he believed required him to be of noble birth. He’s grown up a lot, but some of his ways of thinking still rather resemble some of his childish ones.