Romba / Legends Romba was a male Ewok scout of Bright Tree Village on the forest moon of Endor . To defend his village from the Imperial invasion , Romba prepared traps and was one of the first Ewoks to engage the Empire ' s forces in battle . Romba and the other Ewoks ' efforts not only saved Bright Tree Village but also helped the Rebel Alliance turn the tide of the Galactic Civil War . Biography . According to Ewok myth , the name " Romba " belonged to a hunter who fooled a gorax into eating its own feet . Likewise , this Ewok who bore his name was a dedicated scout . When fellow scout Wuta spotted Imperial invaders on Endor , he would look for fallen trees that could be used to make weapons to combat the offworlders . He contacted Romba , who oversaw the construction of log traps to use against Imperial walkers . But it was another kind of trap — this one for boarwolves — that captured three Rebel Alliance members and their two droids . When Romba and the other Ewoks in his hunting party approached the Rebels with their spears readied , they suddenly saw that one of them was C - 3PO , and they began to worship the gilded protocol droid . Romba spoke with Rabin about the droid reverently , likely because of their experience with the droid some time ago at the failed Chirpa - Gorneesh peace summit . After the Ewoks took the droid and the Rebels back to Bright Tree Village , C - 3PO and Wicket Warrick convinced the tribe to help the Alliance fight their mutual enemy , the Empire . The following day , Romba was among the first group of Ewoks to engage in a surprise attack against the Imperial stormtroopers . Later in the battle , he and other Ewoks strangled stormtroopers with the use of bola s . Romba then proceeded to aid in the launching of catapults against the Empire ' s AT - STs . When the walkers returned fire , Romba and the others fled . As he and Nanta ran , a laser blast hit and incapacitated the two . Romba quickly recovered , but when he reached for his friend to get up and continue running , Nanta didn ' t move . Kneeling over his body , Romba spared a moment to mourn his fallen comrade . As the battle raged on , the tide began to turn when the Rebel Chewbacca and two Ewoks , Widdle Warrick and Wunka , commandeered an AT - ST and used it against the Imperials . Romba — now attacking with bow and arrow — and his fellow warriors stopped and cheered on the battlefield when they witnessed the walker fighting for their side . After the second Death Star was destroyed and the battle ended in the Alliance ' s favor , the Ewoks and Rebels held a celebration at Bright Tree Village . Personality and traits . Like the hunter whose name he bore , Romba was a dedicated Ewok scout . He was knowledgeable in the art of setting traps , overseeing the construction of log traps to fight the Imperial invaders . Romba was also capable of using many of the Ewoks ' weapons — such as the bolas and the bow and arrow — being among the very first group of Ewoks to engage in a surprise attack against the Imperial stormtroopers . Romba mourned his comrade , when he was killed by a laser blast . Behind the scenes . There are two different Ewoks with similar facial features who have been identified as Romba . The first is a brown - hooded Ewok who was made into an action figure by Kenner , one of " the last seventeen . " This particularly short Ewok , who has a brown hood that ties together at the neck , appears in a scene where he mourns for Nanta , who was killed . Romba was played by Debbie Lee Carrington . However , a Decipher Customizable Card Game card produced years later identified another unnamed Ewok , this one taller and with a pinkish hood , as Romba , while the original Romba was featured anonymously on another card . This misattribution was repeated in " The Official Star Wars Fact File 90 " . But in 2007 , Leland Chee corrected the situation by identifying Carrington ' s Ewok as Romba in time for her appearance at Celebration IV . The same year , a new action figure of Romba was produced by Hasbro , again with the proper likeness . The character coin packaged with Kenner ' s claims Romba is a warrior . Although some claim that Rabin and Romba ' s short dialogue exchange sounded like " That guy ' s wise " and " More than I am short , " Pablo Hidalgo assures that this is not the case , but rather fans " picking up unintended patterns . " The Ewok suit Debbie Carrington wore for Romba in " " is apparently the same suit she later wore as Weechee Warrick in " " . An image from " " seems to indicate that Mike Cottrell also played Romba at some point .