Asia Indian fans may find my article interesting

You mention part of the text was taken from a Sanskrit text "Battle of the Trees". You may find it interesting that John Williams used this title for a movement from his Horn Concerto. It was the one movement I found of musical merit, but that's another story.

 

thanks for sharing, CieSharp - really interesting essay!

 

Thanks for the kind words, everyone

As for Naberrie, I'm really not sure. Not everything in SW has some obscure ethnic reference point, some are taken from actual names -- for instance, I THINK that George Lucas himself said that the name Anakin was based on his friend's name, Ken Annakin.

 

Oh wow, apparently the Marauders from the Ewok movies are from a species called "Sanyassan", very similar to Sanyasi