The Free Commots are a region in the fictional country

Country

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 of Prydain

Prydain

Prydain is the modern Welsh name for Britain.-Medieval:Prydain is the medieval Welsh term for the island of Britain . More specifically, Prydain may refer to the Brittonic parts of the island; that is, the parts south of Caledonia...

 in Lloyd Alexander

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's fantasy series, The Chronicles of Prydain

The Chronicles of Prydain

The Chronicles of Prydain is a five-volume series of children's fantasy novels by author Lloyd Alexander...

. They are most prominently featured in the fourth novel, Taran Wanderer

Taran Wanderer

Taran Wanderer is the fourth book in the Chronicles of Prydain series by Lloyd Alexander. It tells of Taran's search for his lineage through which he encounters many different people who each help to shape Taran as he learns about who he truly is. It is the only book in the series in which...

, where the protagonist

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 of the series, Taran

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, does much of his maturing

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 into manhood.
In Alexander's land of Prydain (which is loosely based on the geography

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 of Wales

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), the Free Commots are hamlets and villages located in the east and southeast part of the country.