In the third Star Wars movie that came out, I don’t think the word “Ewok” was ever used…so why are those little furballs referred to thusly?
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Wookiees with the syllables switched, is what I always figured.
Correct. George Lucas said as much in an interview someplace.
I think the first time ‘Ewok’ was actually spoken on screen was in The Ewok Adventure, but I’m not 100% on that. But when the movie is named for them it doesn’t matter as much if it’s actually vocalized. >_>
But it still doesn’t make Chewbacca living on Endor with the Ewoks make any sense.
Good, because that’s not what happened. Chewbacca is from Kashyyyk.
Somebody’s not a South Park fan. (And it was even cochrane doing it!)
Oh, so the wookie on Endor invented a warp drive to go to Kashyyk! It does make sense after all!
Darn. I’d forgotten that episode. Though it was about then I stopped watching.
Everyone knew the word “Ewok” due to merchandise. And yes, the licensees got the name from Lucasfilm, probably via script or directly from Lucas.
Actually, I think the OP has a point – how does everyone know that the furballs are called “Ewoks”? Presumably this is what they call themselves, but I don’t recall them ever using the word. You can’t say it’s in the script or the credits – characters in the movie can’t read the script of the credits. So how did they know? And if the Ewoks don’t call themselves that, where did the name come from?
But characters in the movie did not use the term. We do, because we have narrative omniscience.
Did they, or didn’t they? I don’t recall.
The obligatory Endor Holocaust link: STAR WARS: Endor Holocaust
Star Wars is full of named characters and races that are not spoken in the movie. Many of them come from the credits. Some are not named until the toys come out.
It’d be an interesting experiment to go through the script and see just how many names are actually spoken in the script.
Another notable example is Luke Skywalker’s home planet, Tatooine, a word which is not spoken in the first movie. Nevertheless, every kid I ever met knew the name of the planet–from the toy line, from the comic books, from the novelization, from publicity materials, from magazine articles. Each movie, and particularly the later ones after Star Wars had become an established franchise, was accompanied by a massive publicity campaign that would give you all sorts of background info that you would never know if you just watched the films and did nothing else.
That’s not actually that far-fetched. Those Ewoks apparently have a much sounder grasp of the physical sciences than they let on.
Have you noticed that the Ewok word for carbonite is “carbonite”?
#thingsthatmakeyagohmmmmm
Might have imagined it … but I could have sworn that a form of the word “Ewok” is in that “Ewoks’ song.” There’s a prominent, repeated word that sounds to me like “Ee-WAAAH-keee”. Sounds like the last words of one of the lines of the chorus, as there is a pause after “Ee-WAAAH-keee”.
EDIT: That song actually has a title – “Ewok Celebration” or, unofficially, “Yub Nub” (sometimes “Yub Yub”).