When they showed what was finished of the film to a Story Trust group several months prior to release, many were still confused about who the voice was supposed to belong to. It was after that the decision was made to fully commit to the voice calling to Elsa being that of her mother, Iduna.
While the voice was calling Elsa to reveal her past to her, it was ultimately revealed that Queen Iduna (Evan Rachel Wood) - Elsa's mother - had a lot to explain as well. This, coupled with the reveal that the call was Iduna all along, means Elsa was hearing the voice of her long-lost mother.
The call led her to Ahtohallan, where Elsa was able to discover her true calling and the truth about the curse placed on the Enchanted Forest. Elsa discovered that the call was used by Iduna to summon the Wind Spirit to save Agnarr.
According to Iduna's notes, Ahtohallan is the source of the magic in the Enchanted Forest as well as those of the spirits, including Elsa's powers. It can be assumed that Ahtohallan has a form of sentience as it called Elsa to it so that she could become the fifth spirit and discover the truth about the past.
In conclusion, Elsa is only the fifth spirit because of her mothers sacrifice of her powers. Queen Iduna was the fifth spirit all along and chooses to save King Agnarr knowing that as a royal, she would need to be with him to have her royal daughters.
With the spirits as her guide, Elsa follows the call to Ahtohallan, where she discovers that she is the fifth spirit of the Enchanted Forest—the bridge that connects magic and people. Elsa accepts her role and uses her powers to reveal the truth about King Runeard and his dam, passing that truth to her sister Anna.
Because of the kingdom's negative feelings towards the Northuldra, Iduna kept her heritage a secret for many years, though she finally told him everything shortly before their deaths. Agnarr and Iduna's oldest daughter (Elsa) was born with the power to control ice and snow.
Due to the bad blood between their people, Iduna kept both her heritage and her rescue of Agnarr in the forest a secret for many years, though she finally confessed everything to him shortly before their deaths.
Leaving her friends behind, Elsa crosses the Dark Sea to Ahtohallan (with a little help from a kelpie called Nokk), and commands the spirit (in song) to "Show Yourself." She learns that she is actually the fifth spirit of the forest, connecting the other four.
Elsa's Mother Already Comes From A Magical Background
While the original Frozen implies that Elsa is the only magical member of her family, she discovers that her mother was one of the Northuldra in Frozen 2, and likely interacted with magic regularly.
After all, in just six years, according to the timeline Elsa and Anna gave in Frozen 2, King Agnarr and Queen Iduna were lost at sea, the next Queen, Elsa, was isolated in the castle for years prior and, on the day of her coronation, she revealed she had magic ice powers.
Under this stress, Elsa accidentally injures Anna with her powers. Their parents, the King and Queen of Arendelle, take Anna to the magical trolls who heal her but also alter her memories so that she has no knowledge of Elsa's powers. This fright led the King and Queen to isolate both Elsa and Anna from the kingdom.
No, Elsa and Rapunzel are not twins. However, it seems likely that they are cousins. We see the specifics of Rapunzel's birth in Tangled. The queen of Corona must have been Rapunzel's mother, or else the flower's powers could not have transferred to Rapunzel's hair.
On February 8, 2023, Disney CEO Bob Iger confirmed that Frozen 3 is in the works, along with Toy Story 5 and Zootopia 2. While news of a third Frozen film was a welcome one, we have yet to hear more details about the movie or see a trailer. Here's everything we know about Frozen 3.
Overall, the soundtrack didn't fit the movie as it didn't match the plot at all. They were all pretty much random, and I think they were trying something different, more mature, but they ended up failing. The graphics portrayed and covered up most of the terrible plot.
Frozen explicitly shows the audience that Iduna and Agnarr's ship has sunk, killing both of the young princesses' parents. It's later revealed in Frozen 2 that the king and queen were traveling to Ahtohallan, a magical glacier in the north, and Frozen's sequel again confirms that Anna and Elsa's parents died at sea.
She died and was reborn to take on her true form like has happened in so many stories before. With that transformation, Frozen 2 has made Elsa an immortal spirit now. Like how Frozen 2's other four spirits appear as animals but more than just that, Elsa still appears human but is more than just that.
The implication, and it's only ever just that, is that Elsa and Anna's mother is herself somehow attuned to the magical forces such that Elsa was given the gift of superpowers. (Why Anna never received such powers is equally vaguely defined: just as Elsa and Anna's father had no powers, so too would she be power-free.
True love in Frozen is described as “putting someone else's need before your own” and that's what Elsa did, trying to control her powers and protect people. She couldn't talk to Anna because she had to “conceal” and “not feel” her emotions and if she was talking, she would be expressing her emotions.
Her backstory changed often, but the most common one was that she was a mischievous rebel as a child, who was ostracized due to her behavior and powers. Her hatred of humanity would come to a head when she was left at the alter, causing her to run away and create a kingdom of ice with an army of snowmen.
The fact that granting Anna powers would invalidate or at least muddle the spirit-human bridge concept is only part of the issue. Aside from the logistical problem it poses, a sudden manifestation of magic in Anna would also take away from the beauty of her character.
Rapunzel is is cousin of Anna and Elsa on father's side. When parents go to the dark sea in frozen 2 we see their ship drown, while they were envelopped in water but they didn't die. They were stuck in sea for a while until they were picked by a british ship.
In Frozen 2, Gale was named on the spot by Olaf after the element's mischief led to his "When I Am Older" musical number. It fits with Olaf's character that he would use a pun based on the spirit being windy, too.
