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Originally posted by: C3PX
Back on the Owen Lars and Obi-Wan thing. When I was young the the idea of prequels were just a dream, and all that existed were three great movies. I, like probably every other fan of the OT from before 1999, used to think of my own back story and even play out things in it with my old action figures. I had always thought Owen was Obi-Wan's brother. I figured with names like Owen Lars, Luke Skywalker, Leia Organa, Han Solo, Biggs Darklighter, Wedge Antillies, ect., which sound like pretty normal names as far has having a first name and a last name, that the name Obi-Wan Kenobi was a bit of an odd name. Ben Kenobi seemed much more normal. So I decided that Obi-Wan must be some sort of name the Jedi gave him. Just how Darth Vader being a sith had his named changed from Anakin, and I thought that most likely he was born as Ben Lars, or perhaps Beru Kenobi could have married Owen Lars.
That's exactly what I always thought too! He was always billed as "Ben (Obi-Wan) Kenobi" in the movies and most action figures, so I always thought that Ben was his real name, and Obi-Wan was his Jedi name. In fact, I like that idea a lot more than what we ended up getting... Someone made this a topic a long time ago, but it almost seems like Lucas went out of his way to make everyone's name as weird as possible for the prequels. In the originals, most human names were what we would consider normal or had some normal basis. Obi-Wan, being the wise old Jedi with mystical powers, was the only one whose name was really otherworldly.
But I'm glad someone else thought that too.