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⌈ Secret Post #3403 ⌋

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My sister asked if the events of “The Labyrinth” are meant to be Sarah dreaming, or are they real? Although my primary reaction was that she shouldn’t put that much thought into any children’s movie (or any instance of David Bowie in tight pants), I’d like to take this opportunity to put so much thought into this children’s movie, that it’ll blow your mind.

So why is David Bowie kidnapping a child from an underage Jennifer Connelley?

In a time long long ago a sorcerer named Jareth fell in love with a girl named Sarah. Sarah’s father and step-mother would not let her marry Jareth because they wanted her to keep her, as a servant, to care for their other child. In a fit of rage Jareth kidnapped this other child and spirited it away to the fairy world. In this new world Jareth built a palace for his Sarah. He turned the spoiled child into a goblin, and kept it to be a servant.

Many stories of the fairy world tell us that time moves differently there than in our world (Rip Van Winkle for one). In the time it took for Jareth to build his kingdom, which he may have thought was little more than a few years, Sarah grew old and died.

Overcome by grief and addled by a lifetime spent in a strange world filled with monsters, Jareth goes mad. He refuses to believe that he has lost his love. He searches the mortal world from his castle, looking for her.

Sarah is Hebrew name. So, it is common, and has been in use for thousands and thousands of years. It does not take long (for him) to find a dark haired girl named Sarah, who has a younger sibling, and who feels that she is treated unfairly by her step mother. In a fit of rage he kidnaps this other child and spirits it away to the fairy world. Perhaps this new Sarah dies in the quest to find the child, perhaps she wins her sibling back and flees.

Jareth searches the mortal world from his from his castle, looking for her. It does not take long to find a dark haired girl named Sarah…

This is how Jareth becomes the goblin king. Every goblin in the goblin city is a child Jareth has stolen, who was not recovered by a Sarah. (he told the current Sarah that Toby would become a goblin if she did not find him in time)

This is why he builds the maze. The magic bog, the junk yard of useless treasures, all tricks to slow Sarah down. Because if he can only have his Sarah for the time it takes for her to regain the stolen child, he will make it take as long as possible, keep her as long as possible.

This is why there exists in our world a book containing the story.

Because it has happened before. So many times. At some point some lucky Sarah must have returned to our world to tell the story. This is why when the most recent Sarah first meets Hoggle at the start of the labyrinth, and introduces herself; “I’m Sarah”, Hoggle responds “That’s what I figured.”

Because of course she’s Sarah.

They were all Sarah.

Source: http://glamdamnit.tumblr.com/post/55713093884/my-sister-asked-if-the-events-of-the-labyrinth

But if he could get to the sibling, what was to stop him from helping Sarah escape and eloping with her instead of taking the kid? That would seem to make more sense.

Maybe he wanted her to come to him? Or maybe (for the first one) he wanted to make sure he had a kingdom worthy of her before she came.

When I was a kid, I wondered if the existing goblins all used to be human babies (I wasn't inclined to think deep thoughts about goblin reproduction). I thought it was likely Jareth had done something like this before, just not that many times and not as an attempt to recreate a specific situation.

Jim Above I hate this theory.

a. the most pretentious, thousands-of-fics-dismissing intro, "no one has ever headcanon'd as deeply as me on this kids' movie" BITCH PLEASE.

b. well done you have made a rare female-centric, actually pretty clever coming-of-age story into reincarnation romance MANPAIN.

c. (and this goes for you too, Tokyopop) SARAH IS THE MAIN CHARACTER. Yesss of course Bowie-in-tight-pants doing his seductive villain shtick is the most memorable thing. but he is the antagonist. Playing, possibly unwillingly, the exact role she has determined - there's angsty meta enough in that!!

d. this whole damn theory rests mostly on that one line of Hoggle's which you can Occam Razor away easily enough - the whole Underground knows "the king had fallen in love with the girl", the owl is watching Sarah before she says the Words, it's not so huge to believe in a Goblin Grapevine...

I haaaaaate how viral this tripe got.

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