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hafanforever · 4 years

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Kindred Spirits

While in the Enchanted Forest, Elsa squares off against three of the four elemental spirits. The first spirit appears when she is with her family. The second spirit appears when the five characters are in the presence of the Arendellian soldiers and the Northuldra people. Then the third spirit appears to Elsa alone.

It is my theory that the Wind, Fire, and Water Spirits, those being Gale, Bruni, and the Nokk, respectively, appear because they detect Elsa’s powers. They sense the presence of her magic, which makes them suspect she may be a spirit like them. Their “attacks” are actually tests in which they challenge Elsa to see if she IS truly the fifth spirit, and thus one of them, or if she is a fraud.

During her encounters with these spirits, Elsa must pass their tests, one at a time, to prove herself worthy of joining them.

These tests begin when Gale appears as a tornado. She aggressively sweeps up the whole group and swirls them around, but then she lets the others go while Elsa remains in her grasp. This clearly indicates that Gale realizes that Elsa is the ONLY magical being of the five. Elsa successfully stops Gale’s twister by shooting out ice, which leads to the creation of the ice sculptures. Afterwards, Gale reappears as a swirl of leaves (her usual form), and becomes very playful and curious.

After Elsa and her family meet the Northuldra and soldiers, Bruni appears when he starts a fire in one tree, then he jumps around more trees and runs to several other spots, setting much of the forest ablaze. Elsa emits ice from her hands to put out the fires, but she barely extinguishes them before more emerge. When she finally corners Bruni and discovers that he’s just a tiny salamander, Elsa calmly approaches him, then dodges a spew of fire and puts it out after he hisses and spits it at her. Upon seeing what she does to the aforementioned fire, Bruni’s aggression turns to curiosity, and he cocks his head as he looks at Elsa, who does the same gesture. He then cautiously approaches Elsa, and she gently extends her hand, gesturing that she means no harm. After Bruni climbs into her hands and happily settles down, Elsa creates some snowflakes, which he eagerly gobbles up.

When Elsa begins crossing the Dark Sea to go to Ahtohallan, she faces her deadliest spiritual challenge yet when she encounters the Nokk, a water entity shaped like a horse and the guardian of said sea. This test proves to be more difficult for Elsa, not only because she struggles to swim through the choppy water and its huge waves, but also because the Nokk acts more aggressive than the other two spirits did. It repeatedly chases after Elsa and tries to drown her, but she uses her powers to steadily fight back at each of its attempts. After creating reins to hold on to and ride the Nokk, it continues to resist and bucks several times to try and throw her off. But Elsa valiantly keeps her grasp, refusing to be thrown off, and the Nokk finally settles down. Afterwards, it carries her to Ahtohallan, then disappears into the water after she disembarks. Before they part, Elsa and the Nokk bow to each other, displaying a newfound respect that has formed between them.

When Elsa freezes in Ahtohallan after discovering the truth about her grandfather’s crimes, Anna receives the last-minute message from Elsa about the latter’s discovery, and concludes that the dam must be broken in order to free the forest. By this time, the Earth Giants are still the only spirit(s) left to be confronted. With Elsa dead, and Olaf gone due to the loss of Elsa’s magic, Anna alone takes it upon herself to face the Giants. She does this by provoking them into following her to the dam and throwing boulders to break it. Upon being awoken, the Giants react aggressively towards Anna by trying to stomp on her and throwing their boulders as they chase her. But Anna succeeds in luring them to the dam and getting them to destroy it. Once the structure has fallen, Elsa is revived, saves Arendelle, and returns to the forest. With the dam obliterated, the Giants are tame once again.

Now Elsa facing off, or rather, not facing off, against the Giants earlier in the film, as opposed to the other spirits, is a different story. Like Gale and Bruni before, and then the Nokk later, the Giants sensed Elsa’s presence when she was at the Northuldra camp, which is why they appeared there. They were attracted to her magic, which made them think that she may have been one of them. However, while Elsa briefly thinks she can settle them like she did with Gale and Bruni, Anna convinces her that it wouldn’t be smart to confront them now. Realizing that she would put everyone at risk if she stayed since the Giants would likely return and persistently search for her at the camp until they finally found her there, Elsa decides to leave immediately and continue going north.

Unlike the other spirits, I think if Elsa tried to confront the Giants, it would have been harder for her to settle them unlike the others, mainly because there are several Giants and they are all enormous in size. @mike5579-t3a mentioned to me that Elsa confronting 40+ foot tall, heavy Earth Giants along with a group that consisted of the Northuldra, Mattias, the four remaining soldiers, Anna, Kristoff, Olaf, and Sven would be a lose-lose or win-lose situation. Though Bruni’s fires were dangerous, they were quickly and easily extinguished, without having done significant damage to the forest, once Elsa calmed him down. However, the Giants’ size make them a bigger danger to everyone else, mainly because they and their boulders are capable of doing lots of unrepairable damage to the forest, most especially when they are in angry, aggressive states.

When it comes to other reasons why the Giants had to be confronted last, I think their monstrous size wasn’t the only problem. Keep in mind that in real life, earth is usually regarded as the most physical element in nature since it represents hard, solid objects like rock and stone. For that reason, I think the physical presence of the dam, a firm, stone structure, affected the Giants the most. By this, I mean that it made them the most aggressive of all four spirits because they are made of rock themselves. As long as the dam stood, the Giants could not be easily, if at all, pacified like the Wind, Fire, and Water Spirits. But once the dam was gone, the Giants returned to their original, peaceful state.

By the end of Frozen II, the Wind, Fire, Water, and Earth Spirits have not just reconciled with the Northuldra and Arendellians; they have resumed living in harmony with each other, the Northuldra, and now live alongside Elsa, the fifth spirit, in the Enchanted Forest.

Interestingly enough, earlier in the film, when the ice crystals appear after Elsa finishes singing “Into the Unknown”, she identifies them in the order of air, fire, water, and earth. This turns out to be a subtle foreshadowing of the same sequential order of the spirits that Elsa and Anna face on their adventure.

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hafanforever · 4 years

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Since 2019 is coming to a close tonight, I wanted to give a shoutout to my dearest friends here on Tumblr, those who are my most avid followers and/or ones I chat with the most here on the site.

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I also want to give a shoutout to some more of my most loyal followers, especially those who are fellow Frozen fans, both old and new, who frequently check out my blog, especially when I post something Frozen-related! (I included as many as I could think of, so please don’t take it personally if your name isn’t mentioned.)

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Thank you all for another wonderful year on Tumblr, for checking out my gif sets and analyses, especially on Frozen and now Frozen II! I’m sure 2020 will be another fantastic year, and start of a new decade, for all of us! 😁😄

Happy New Year, everybody! Thank you all for your love and support! You’re all terrific! I love you! 😁🎉🎊

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yumeka36 · 5 years

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WARNING: MAJOR FROZEN 2 SPOILERS AHEAD

The ending for Frozen 2 was leaked last night and I wanted to post my thoughts.

–IF YOU DON’T WANT TO BE SPOILED, SKIP THIS POST AND DO NOT READ FURTHER–

But if you’ve also read the leaks and want to know what I think, proceed…

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In less than two days of me posting this where I describe the apprehension I have about learning the plot of Frozen 2, possibly in less than a week due to the merchandise release on the 4th, and how my fandom may dwindle if the ending doesn’t satisfy me and Disney offers no certainty of future sequels, the ending of the movie was suddenly leaked last night. I won’t post the pictures but you can find the link here if you want to see.

As expected, fan reactions have been mostly negative, but some more positive and some trying to be neutral until we have more information. I’ve read through many comments and understand the emotions on all sides @justlookatthosesausages @hereisisa @tenshichan1013 @breckstonevailskier @basssuperpower @jabs-wocks @beingpassionateabout @bigfrozenfan @mike5579-t3a I had to take some time to get my thoughts together and let the shock process in my mind. But my initial reaction was and still is, yes, I’m disappointed now, but I don’t want to throw in the towel until I see the movie myself, or at least learn more information from other sources that describe the plot a bit better, like some of the books that will release on the 4th. What we have in these leaked pages is very vague and begs tons of questions: What are the “sacrifices” each of them has to make? Is going their separate ways the sacrifice, or something else? How do they destroy the dam? Can’t Elsa just easily destroy it with a bunch of ice pillars? I can’t imagine just destroying a dam would be the big, epic conclusion. What is Pabbie’s “prophecy”? In the trailer he just tells Elsa to find who’s calling her, we didn’t see him prophesize anything. The leaks say that Elsa leaves Anna and Olaf, but where are Kristoff and Sven when all this is going on? I can understand Elsa being the only one who can cross the sea but why would Anna have to be totally alone for her journey? How does the dam harm the Northuldra and how would King Runeard benefit from it? What is the “curse” exactly and why is it now becoming a problem as opposed to the 3 years after the events of the first movie? There are many more questions than answers that the leaks provide, which shows how we really need more information to judge the quality of this ending.

But yes, the major facts that we do learn are Anna becomes queen of Arendelle and Elsa becomes the fifth spirit/Snow Queen. But again, there are just so many things we still don’t know: what does being the “fifth spirit” even mean? Is she just gonna hang out in the enchanted forest all day doing…what? Does the “Snow Queen” mean the queen of the Northuldra? Of Ahtohallan? Of the other four spirits? Of the world in general? The leak fails to mention where Elsa will be residing in the end. Being with the other spirits in the enchanted forest makes sense, but if she’s the fifth one who’s supposed to be the bridge between the two worlds, it would make more sense if she’s somewhere different, like maybe just living in her ice palace between Arendelle and Northuldra. Heck, wouldn’t it be funny if she ends up staying in Arendelle with Anna after all, and the reason Anna becomes queen is because Elsa can’t be the queen of both worlds so she decides she’s more fit for being the Snow Queen. Or she’s just too busy doing “fifth spirit” stuff to rule a kingdom…again, until we know what kind of duties being a spirit entails, confirming her status at the end of the movie is still very up in the air. But the bottom line is that there’s no inference that they won’t be able to see each other again even if they end up living in separate places. Now that there’s peace between the two lands, that’s even more reason to conclude that they can freely visit each other whenever they want. The leaks state that Anna and Elsa are the ones who create the bridge between the two worlds…isn’t that what bridges are for, keeping people together? @taniahylian I also have to wonder what this will mean for Frozen’s representation at Disney Parks - I think this is the first time such popular characters have gone through such a radical change in canon material (since this is their only official sequel beside Rescuers Down Under and Wreck-It Ralph, and even the direct to video sequels didn’t have this level of change) so representing Anna and Elsa the way they have in Disney Parks, with Elsa being the queen of Arendelle, their outfits, etc., will become obsolete, plus Frozen 2 merchandise will clash with merchandise from the first movie, so will they get rid of the old stuff? I’m really curious how Disney Parks will address this, if they feel the need to.

One part of the leak that made me a little nervous is that Elsa has “transformed” in the end, which leads to Anna changing her role. I’m assuming it means more of a figurative transformation and not to the extent that she’s no longer human or becomes immortal or takes the form of that snowflake compass in the movie poster. Anything that infers that Anna can no longer interact with her normally would be terrible…that’s an ending for an anime, not a Disney movie!

But personally I think we’ll see a more happier ending like what I mentioned earlier where they’ll still see each other and have their same relationship, just not live together. I recall something Jennifer Lee said at D23 Expo where she said “nothing will ever be the same” and then, more lightly, “but some things will” which I feel illustrates this kind of ending. But we also have to wonder about the fate of the other main characters: will Olaf end up staying with Anna or Elsa? And the leaks say nothing about Kristoff and the engagement ring, which makes sense since it’s from a book focused purely on the mythology of the movie, so we have to wonder if Anna ends up accepting his proposal or not, and if she does, does that make him king or prince consort? If Disney intends to make this the final installment of the Frozen franchise, I can’t imagine them leaving Anna and Kristoff’s relationship so open ended (the elsanna fans are already disappointed, at least satisfy the kristanna fans, lol). I’m kind of imagining an epilogue that, after we get solid confirmation that they’ll be able to visit each other freely in their separate lands whenever they want, we get a scene after the end credits, maybe 5+ years later, of Anna and Kristoff visiting Elsa in the enchanted lands (of course Olaf and Sven are there too), and after a heartfelt reunion, they show her a baby and say “we thought you’d like to see your niece/nephew,” then que scenes of all of them playing and hanging out together. I think this route of closing Anna’s relationship with both Elsa and Kristoff while still reinforcing their togetherness and family dynamic would satisfy me.

To conclude, I agree with many others that this was definitely not my first choice for an ending and would have preferred this be the ending of Frozen 3, with Frozen 2 focusing on Anna and Elsa getting to know each other as sisters. But at the same time, this does not mean it will be bad. As I described in this post, there are way too many details we don’t know to make major claims like “Elsa and Anna won’t be together” and “Elsa becomes a goddess.” It does seem like the separation ending is a new trend, or perhaps it’s just coincidence that Frozen 2 is following Ralph 2 and Toy Story 4 which also had this kind of ending. I recall an article from a while back stating that Jennifer Lee and team planned the ending of Frozen 2 first before the rest of the story, so maybe this is really the route they wanted without any big corporate suits pulling the strings (Jennifer Lee is the head of Disney Animation after all). I’m now more interested than ever to see that Frozen 2 documentary on Disney+ to understand why she chose this ending. Even if books released on the 4th shed more light, seeing the movie for real with all its many details in dialogue, character interactions and expressions, visual illustration of plot and setting, etc., is the only way to make true judgement. I’m hopeful I won’t have to eat these words two months from now~

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hafanforever · 4 years

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Tagged by @musicmaniac94

RULES: Answer these 20 questions and tag 20 other bloggers you want to get to know better

1. Name: Moira (hafanforever to many people online)

2. Nicknames: I don’t go by nicknames. Please just call me by my real name.

3. Zodiac Sign: Gemini ♊️

4. Height: 5′4″

5. Languages: English

6. Nationality: American

7. Favorite Season: Spring. It used to be summer, but over the last several years, I have changed my mind because the intense heat bothers me so much. Still, I like warm weather over cold weather, so I choose summer second to spring. 🍃

8. Favorite Flower: Daisy 🌼

9. Favorite Scent: Any kinds of my favorite chocolate desserts being baked and removed from the oven. 🍪

10. Favorite Color: Blue! 💙

11. Favorite Animal: Dogs! 🐶

12. Favorite Fictional Character(s): Anakin Skywalker/Darth Vader and Padmé Amidala from Star Wars, Elsa from Frozen, Arnold Shortman and Helga Pataki from Hey Arnold!, Cinderella from the 1950 Cinderella, Ariel from The Little Mermaid, Hermione Granger and Hagrid from Harry Potter

13. Coffee, tea, or hot chocolate: Hot chocolate

14. Average Sleep Hours: Usually between 8 and 10 hours

15. Dog or cat person: Like I said above, dogs! 😉

16. Number of Blankets You Sleep With: Right now, my bed is clad with a new Frozen II comforter, which is very snug, and I often sleep with one or two Elsa fleece throws!

17. Dream Trio: Huh???

18. Blog Established: September 2013

19. Followers: Over 4.4K right now 😁

20. Random Fact: Ten years ago, I took karate for a few years and earned a green belt.

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