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Taran the assistant pig-keeper is the fictional protagonist of Lloyd Alexander's The Chronicles of...

Taran the assistant pig-keeper is the fictional protagonist of Lloyd Alexander's The Chronicles of Prydain series of books, as well as in the film and game named after the second novel, The Black Cauldron. Taran is portrayed as a young man in late adolescence, who lives with the Enchanter Dallben and Coll, the aged warrior. He is charged with taking care of the oracular pig Hen Wen and throughout the series is known under the title of Assistant Pig-Keeper. Taran's age is never given at any time in the series, though at the outset he seems to be approximately thirteen or fourteen years old. The readers are also never given any indication as to the character's appearance, and as a result, he has been depicted in many different ways. In the Disney film The Black Cauldron, he is shown as a brown-haired, brown-eyed youth who spends a great deal of time staring out of windows and daydreaming; he is voiced by Grant Bardsley. Taran is headstrong and courageous, though occasionally foolhardy, and harbors an intense desire to prove his worth and heroism through noble acts. Indeed, much of the series centers on Taran's search for his own worth. Taran was a foundling discovered by Dallben the