Mimph Mimphs were small , semi - sentient creatures native to the Forest Moon of Endor . Although not fully sentient , mimphs were intelligent , and they were able to comprehend and use language to communicate with fully sentient beings like Ewoks . They were also able to manipulate tools and build villages , and teams of mimphs could even capture much larger prey . In 3 ABY , a group of mimphs from a community near Bright Tree Village captured the Ewok Wicket Wystri Warrick and put him on display in their village . When a monstrous hanadak rampaged through the village , Warrick defeated the beast and saved the village residents . Later , when Endor was covered in snow and ice by the Snow King , the village was buried , and the mimphs had to use shovels to remove the massive amounts of snow until the Snow King was defeated . Biology and appearance . Mimphs were tiny , semi - sentient creatures which , as adults , stood about ankle - high to an Ewok . A mimph walked on two legs and had two three - fingered hands ; two long , forked ears ; a flat , heart - shaped tail ; and a mouth full of white teeth . Mostly covered in pink fur , the lower half of a mimph ' s face was white , as was the inside of its ears . Their two eyes were mostly white , with black pupils and pink lids , and were situated below two eyebrows , which could be white or black . Two whiskers protruded from both sides of the small , red nose . While their limbs were quite thin compared to their bodies , their heads were large — about the size of the torso . Some mimphs were known to grow white facial hair . To Ewoks , mimphs seemed to have high - pitched voices . Society and culture . Mimphs lived in villages , which contained houses constructed from firm plant material around blades of tall , thick grass , to which the material was tied at the top and bottom . Many mimph homes were brown with green roofs and balconies ; a single round hole allowed access to the interior . Larger structures with similar color schemes and layouts were often constructed atop tree trunks . Like their homes , mimph clothing was often similar ; a standard design consisted of a tan body suit with feet , decorated by a horizontal yellow stripe across the chest . Some also had a red diamond centered on the stomach . However , mimphs had several different types of headgear ; variants included a horned helmet worn by Masher . Despite their small stature in comparison to many other species , mimphs were fierce hunters , frequently banding together in parties to capture larger prey . Their limited mental capacity did not inhibit their ability to outwit sentient opponents , with whom they could communicate if they spoke a mutual language , and they mastered the art of hunting by using lengths of rope and large , wheeled vehicles to more easily transport their prizes . Mimph children were cared for by their mothers , and many mimphs were known to own and use snow shovels , which they used to clean their villages in the winter . Fascinated by larger creatures , mimphs were known to put those that they captured on display for the general public ' s entertainment . History . Early history and Wicket ' s capture . The diminutive mimphs evolved on the Forest Moon of Endor , a moon with a wide variety of terrains , where they constructed villages and hunted for larger prey . By 3 ABY , one such village had been founded near a river not far from the Ewoks of Bright Tree Village . In that year , the village was the home of the mimphs Smasher , Thrasher , and Masher . These three mimphs , as well as one other , found the young Ewok Wicket Wystri Warrick unconscious on the banks of the nearby river . Warrick , who had been battling a fearsome , gargantuan beast called a hanadak in an attempt to acquire a fang for his Belt of Honor , awoke to the four mimphs standing on top of him . Tied to a wheeled vehicle with the mimphs ' rope , Warrick was unable to escape , and the mimphs declared that they would take him back to their village . There , the mimphs found Warrick a giant in comparison to themselves . The immense Ewok was dangerous too ; a simple sneeze by the outsider was enough to destroy several of the village ' s tiny buildings . The mimph leaders kept the Ewok tied up behind a curtain that overlooked the settlement . As the residents cheered and shouted to see the Ewok , Masher introduced Warrick as " the monstrous ; the fearsome : Wicket ! " The curtain was drawn back , and the entire village stared at the giant Ewok in horror . As the crowd gazed , mimph mothers shielded their children ' s eyes , and Masher asked Warrick to put on a show by roaring . The Ewok , however , refused , and instead mumbled the expletive " kvark " to himself . As the mimphs cheered on , repeating the word , the hanadak heard the commotion and entered the village . The beast tore through the area and destroyed buildings with its feet and hands . The four mimphs who had captured Warrick leaped onto the hanadak ' s leg in a futile attempt to slow the beast down . Warrick , concerned for the mimphs ' safety , tore free of his bonds . The hanadak continued its rampage , swatting the four mimphs into the air , but they were caught by Warrick , who set them down gently and grabbed the curtain that the mimphs had used to hide him . After climbing a tall tree , Warrick leaped onto the hanadak ' s shoulders and , using the curtain as a blindfold , led the hanadak toward the river where the mimphs had kidnapped him . Warrick leaped to safety as the hanadak fell in to the water and was dropped over a waterfall . The Ewok then expressed to the mimphs his disappointment in having failed to acquire a hanadak fang for his Belt of Honor . The four mimphs , grateful for the Ewok ' s help in defeating the creature , considered the matter and granted the Ewok a tooth from Thrasher , who had lost it in a fight . Other crises . Later in 3 ABY , the weather on Endor turned unusually cold and snowy in the middle of the summer season , and the mimph village was buried in snow . The mimphs were forced to use shovels to remove the powder , which reached a depth equal to a mimph ' s stature in some places . As the Ewok Teebo , who had recently cast a weather - altering spell , believed he was to blame for the snow , he and his friends Warrick , Latara , and the Princess Kneesaa a Jari Kintaka journeyed to the Sun Palace , home of the powerful being known as the Sun King , to explain the situation . On their way to the Sun Palace , the Ewoks witnessed the mimphs clearing their village of the snow , a spectacle that added to Teebo ' s feelings of guilt . When the Ewoks learned that the magical artifact known as the season scepter had been stolen by the Sun King ' s brother , the Snow King , the Ewoks journeyed to to the Snow Palace , where they defeated the Snow King and convinced him to return Endor to its summer season . The harsh and unnatural winter ended , and all of Endor , including the mimph village , was returned to the summer . On another occasion that year , a group of mimphs came under attack by a hairy , bipedal creature . Just as the beast threatened to hurl two houses - ful of mimphs into a yawning maw , the Ewoks Wicket W . Warrick and Kneesaa a Jari Kintaka swooped down on a skin glider and swiped the mimphs from the predator ' s grasp . Behind the scenes . The mimphs first appeared during the of the " " television series as a part of the show ' s opening credits animation sequence . They received their first starring role in the story of " Gone With the Mimphs , " the ninth episode of the season . The episode was written by Linda Woolverton and first aired on October 18 , 1986 . Mimphs appeared briefly in the season ' s thirteenth episode , " The Season Scepter , " which was written by Bob Carrau and aired on November 1 , 1986 . Both episodes picture mimphs as having a dark - red covering on their heads , and also depict some as having a pair of horns . While neither episode makes it clear whether these coverings and horns are a form of headgear or part of the mimphs ' natural anatomy , this article assumes the former . No source has clarified when the events of the opening credits take place ; this article assumes they must occur after Wicket W . Warrick meets the mimphs in " Gone With the Mimphs , " but the placement of the beast attack on the mimphs is otherwise arbitrary . The article " A Star Wars CELibration , " which was published in the 1995 magazine " Star Wars Insider " 27 and which provides plot summaries for all " Star Wars : Ewoks " and " " episodes , capitalizes the M in " Mimph . " However , the 2008 reference book " The Complete Star Wars Encyclopedia " , which establishes that the creatures are semi - sentient and native to Endor , does not . This article assumes that the more recent " Encyclopedia " is correct .