The forest moon of Endor, also referred to as the sanctuary moon or simply as Endor, is a moon in the Star Wars fictional universe. It appears in Star Wars Episode VI: Return of the Jedi as the home to the Ewoks, and is the body over which the second Death Star is constructed. It is also the location of the Ewok TV movies Caravan of Courage: An Ewok Adventure and Ewoks: The Battle for Endor, as well as the animated and Marvel Comics Star Wars: Ew...
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The forest moon of Endor, also referred to as the sanctuary moon or simply as Endor, is a moon in the Star Wars fictional universe. It appears in Star Wars Episode VI: Return of the Jedi as the home to the Ewoks, and is the body over which the second Death Star is constructed. It is also the location of the Ewok TV movies Caravan of Courage: An Ewok Adventure and Ewoks: The Battle for Endor, as well as the animated and Marvel Comics Star Wars: Ewoks series.
The Endor scenes in Return of the Jedi were filmed in a redwood forest near Crescent City, California.
The body, which is a forested moon covered by giant trees, has no name in Return of the Jedi; it is simply called the "forest moon of Endor". However, no planet is shown in the film for it to orbit as a moon. The novelization explains this by asserting that the planet was destroyed a long time ago, it can also be explained that by being a natural satellite it could merely be orbiting a star. The Ewok television movies, by contrast...
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