Forest moon of Endor

In the fictional universe of Star Wars, the forest moon of Endor, also known as Sanctuary Moon, is a moon which is home to the Ewoks and above which the second Death Star was constructed in '.

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Fictional universe - Star Wars - Moon - Ewok - Death Star

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Endor's moon is also the location of the two Ewok TV movies ' and ', as well as the adventures of the cartoon series '. The moon is also home to deadly giant Goraxes, tall and timid Yuzzums, rodent-like Teeks, vicious condor dragons and a settlement of offplanet reptilian marauders.

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TV movie - Cartoon - Goraxes - Yuzzums - Rodent - Teeks - Dragons - Marauders

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Endor itself is not the moon, but instead the planet which the moon orbits (or orbited).

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The planet Endor is never visible in the film, a fact which the novelization explains by asserting that it was destroyed some time earlier and that the moon now orbits its star in a planetary orbit of its own. It should be noted that in two scenes in the film, a pinkish planet can be seen in the background, in the vicinity of the forest moon, though the two bodies are never seen at the same time. This, coupled with the fact that a moon without a planet should itself be defined as a planet in its own right, has caused some fans to speculate that this pinkish planet is in fact Endor.

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Novelization - Star - Orbit

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The moon resembles Earth in many ways; however, it seems to have more landmasses than oceans. The landmasses are primarily covered with thick forests of massive ancient pine trees, and it has at least one desert region. Endor does not appear to have polar ice caps and may have a temperate climate around the globe.

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The Star Wars planet is named after J.R.R. Tolkien's Endor, the Elvish name of Middle-earth, probably an allusion to the similarity between Ewoks and Hobbits, or the moon's tall foliage and the mellyrn of Lothlórien.

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J.R.R. Tolkien - Elvish - Middle-earth - Hobbit - Mellyrn - Lothlórien

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