Was the term 'Sith' coined in teh EU?

Darth Garden Gnome · Post by **Darth Garden Gnome** » 2002-12-31 08:58pm

I don't seem to recall the word ever being used in the OT. I could be wrong though.

Anyways, if that is the case, then you can't really complain about GL never using EU stuff in his movies, because I do know that the term Sith is used in TPM and AOTC.

Ender · Post by **Ender** » 2002-12-31 09:08pm

It was in the ANH novel.

Spanky The Dolphin · Post by **Spanky The Dolphin** » 2002-12-31 09:32pm

I think "Sith" has existed since the original drafts for Star Wars, between 1975-1977.

God Emperor · Post by **God Emperor** » 2002-12-31 09:51pm

It was, originaly they were going to be a Knight Hood, them finaly they settled on just one person.

Galvatron · Post by **Galvatron** » 2002-12-31 11:16pm

Darth Garden Gnome wrote:I don't seem to recall the word ever being used in the OT. I could be wrong though.

Anyways, if that is the case, then you can't really complain about GL never using EU stuff in his movies, because I do know that the term Sith is used in TPM and AOTC.

The OT never used the term, but the EU books did.

Cal Wright · Post by **Cal Wright** » 2003-01-01 03:52am

It was never in the movies, however it was all over the place in the three novelisations.

Darth Garden Gnome · Post by **Darth Garden Gnome** » 2003-01-01 04:06am

Most interesting, why GL would put them in novels and not books. Anybody have an idea why he might do that?

Peregrin Toker · Post by **Peregrin Toker** » 2003-01-01 08:42am

The word "Sith" WAS in the original draft, where the Jedi Bendu battled the Black Knights of the Sith Order.

In a later draft, the Black Knights of Sith were the Legions of Lettow, but they finally personified the Sith as a single character, Darth Vader, the Dark Lord of the Sith.

(I hate saying it, but I prefer the term "Black Knight of the Sith" over "Dark Lord of the Sith")

Cpt_Frank · Post by **Cpt_Frank** » 2003-01-01 09:42am

Sith was in the early drafts and the novels indeed, although the background of the word originates from the EU.

Crazy_Vasey · Post by **Crazy_Vasey** » 2003-01-01 10:54am

Vader was always referred to as the Dark Lord of the Sith in scripts and stuff but it just never came up in the films AFAIK.

Tsyroc · Post by **Tsyroc** » 2003-01-01 11:11am

I had a Darth Vader T-shirt from the same year SW came out and it referred to him as Dark Lord of the Sith. Which sounded cool but was a bit confusing to me since most of that was never explained in the movie or the comic book adaptation.

Cal Wright · Post by **Cal Wright** » 2003-01-01 01:33pm

I don't recall any dialogue from novelisations where someone says he's the Dark Lord of the Sith or any Sith mentionings. It's in the description the author gives him. Something along the lines of, 'fear gripped the crew as the Dark Lord of the Sith descended the ramp' or some shit like that.

Master of Ossus · Post by **Master of Ossus** » 2003-01-01 01:45pm

"Sith" is something that has been used since early drafts of SW, and is in the canonical scripts, where it is used to describe Darth Vader.

ViciousMink · Post by **ViciousMink** » 2003-01-01 06:35pm

Obligatory StarWarZ site reference:

http://www.starwarz.com/starkiller/

The Jedi Bendu Script Site. Interesting stuff there.

It was really only in the EU that the Sith were defined to be an opposint Force tradition to the Jedi. I don't think it's even been discussed in the official books or the movies if the Sith were a breakaway tradition from the Jedi or not. YMMV.

Anarchist Bunny · Post by **Anarchist Bunny** » 2003-01-01 10:13pm

Tsyroc wrote:I had a Darth Vader T-shirt from the same year SW came out and it referred to him as Dark Lord of the Sith. Which sounded cool but was a bit confusing to me since most of that was never explained in the movie or the comic book adaptation.

At the price old SW shit goes for these days, don't you wish you still had that?

My mom once found this old Melenium Falcon, I'd say from 1984-87. I didn't want it that bad. Probly could of made some money off that.

beyond hope · Post by **beyond hope** » 2003-01-01 10:19pm

ViciousMink wrote:Obligatory StarWarZ site reference:

http://www.starwarz.com/starkiller/

The Jedi Bendu Script Site. Interesting stuff there.

It was really only in the EU that the Sith were defined to be an opposint Force tradition to the Jedi. I don't think it's even been discussed in the official books or the movies if the Sith were a breakaway tradition from the Jedi or not. YMMV.

They're breakaways from the Jedi. It's in The Phantom Menace novelization.

Peregrin Toker · Post by **Peregrin Toker** » 2003-01-02 10:09am

beyond hope wrote: They're breakaways from the Jedi. It's in The Phantom Menace novelization.

Yup. And they only adopted the name Sith after they fled to the hitherto-unknown planet Korriban and encountered the native people, the Massassi Sith, who used the Force although they never knew of the Jedi.

Lord Pounder · Post by **Lord Pounder** » 2003-01-02 03:05pm

anarchistbunny wrote:
Tsyroc wrote:I had a Darth Vader T-shirt from the same year SW came out and it referred to him as Dark Lord of the Sith. Which sounded cool but was a bit confusing to me since most of that was never explained in the movie or the comic book adaptation.
At the price old SW shit goes for these days, don't you wish you still had that?

My mom once found this old Melenium Falcon, I'd say from 1984-87. I didn't want it that bad. Probly could of made some money off that.

I still have most of my old Star Wars toys. I have a complete "exploding" speeder bike, an ATAT ( that has a broken leg coz i used it as horse when i was younger, and near all the Star Fighters i could get, X-Wings and B-Wings etc.

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Was the term 'Sith' coined in teh EU?

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