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	captured, but then he escapes and rescues the princess, but then they both get captured again. Sigfried gets tied to a wall in front of a big time-delay crossbow contraption, whilst the princess escapes using the time-honoured seduction technique. Then Sigfried is released by the guards, who follow him to where the princess is hiding and they both get captured again. Next it's Sigfried turn to escape before doing a bit more fighting, but by this time, the princess has been magically-hypnotised and is unwittingly partaking in her own wedding (Morack has asked the princess to marry him numerous times throughout the film, but only now does he employ this method...). Thanks to a cunning monk who delays the ceremony by saying everything twice, Sigfried gets there before the wedding is completed and he chucks Morack onto the Throne of Fire, whereupon his face melts. "Yay! We've got a new king!" Sigfried and the princess then become king and queen, and all the inhabitants of the castle, who only two minutes before were Morack's evil minions, are suddenly transformed into good-natured democratic citizens. On one of the numerous occasions that Sigfried gets captured, Morack orders him to be thrown into the 'Well of Madness'.		Sigfried and the princess having a tiff At the bottom of the well is a big cavern full of dry ice and the heavily-reverbed sound of cackling women. Sigfried is confronted by a ghostly apparition resembling a wax-work model of a severed head. The head introduces him to the well of madness and promptly disappears, leaving Sigfried grasping at the empty air (as if to say, "I am but a simple warrior, I know not of such wizardry..."). Then he gets spooked out by fleeting glimpses of owls, panthers, and giant swans. He has to wrestle with a snake which suddenly appears round his neck, fight an empty suit of armour, and dig a hole through the wall of the cave with an axe. On the other side of the wall he comes across his father - who he believed to be dead - sat on a bail of hay. His dad casts a spell of invisibility and invulnerability on Sigfried (why he didn’t cast it on himself and escape long ago is unclear). However, since Sigfried has been creeping around the castle completely unnoticed for most of the film, his new-found invisibility is not that much of a bonus. As for being invulnerable - this doesn't really change anything either, as he seems quite able to defeat an unlimited number of guards (until a time comes when the 'plot' requires him to be captured).
	"The Throne of Fire, forged personally by Odin, given by the god to Erlan the viking, who left it to his son Anack the conqueror, who left it to his son Bran the navigator, and so on and so forth down to Aegon the wise..." - Morack relating the history of the famous chair
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