Endor was originally supposed to be the Wookie home planet

[pokerfan]

but that was before Lucas realized the merchandising possibilities of Ewoks.

:puke:

[Bryan]

1. I don't know, I don't mind the Ewoks

I always assumed they were planning to eat Our Heroes until Luke gulled them into believing Threepio was a god.

ETA: Here's an even less equivocal defense of the Ewoks:

http://www.alltooflat.com/about/personal/sean/2009/04/lost_thoughts_9.html

"The Ewoks are awesome. They look like teddy bears and fight like the Viet Cong. If given the choice between living among humans for the rest of my life and living among Ewoks, the choice would be it's not even a choice. Ewoks every time. What I'm saying is that the Ewoks are better than you."

[pokerfan]

2. "Face it, Ewoks suck, dude."

LOST would not lie.

[SoxFan]

3. Dude!

[pokerfan]

4. Dude?

[lifesbeautifulmagic]

5. Just keep them in the Star Wars franchise

and far away from Star Trek.....please.....

[Sebastian Doyle]

6. Aren't Ewoks just the Wookies shorter cousins?

I seem to remember reading that they were related back in some sci fi geek magazine around the time Return of the Jedi was released.

So if the 2 species had a common ancestor, no reason they couldn't be on the same planet.

[pokerfan]

7. But didn't we see the wookie homeworld in one of the prequels?

I admit that I didn't pay close attention because Phantom Menace made me want to gouge out my eyeballs.

[Sebastian Doyle]

8. Yeah, there was a lot of wookies in the last one

So I assume that was their planet. It's where Yoda was when Emperor Lieberman Palpatine gave the order to wipe out all the Jedi.