The moon's name comes for the Elven word for Middle-earth in The Lord of the Rings, probably an allusion to the similarity between the moon's tall foliage and the mallyrn of Lothlórien?.
Some fans of the movie with some knowledge of physics have speculated that if the destruction of the second [Death Star]? actually occurred as depicted, the moon would have been rendered uninhabitable (though such speculation implies attention to scientific plausibility and accurate depictions shown nowhere else in the movie series).