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star wars - Are there any published details of Kenobi's communication with Lars family on Tatooine before ANH?



From the movies we know that Obi-Wan Kenobi delivered Luke Skywalker to Owen and Beru Lars to raise on Tatooine shortly after Luke was born at the end of RotS (Episode 3).


The next think we know is Luke running into Ben Kenobi during A New Hope.


There seems to be a hint that there was at least SOME communication between Kenobi and Lars family based on him telling Luke:



Your father wanted you to have this when you were old enough, but your uncle wouldn't allow it.



(though it's possible that was referring to Kenobi offering to leave the lightsaber to Larses at the same time he dropped off Luke)


I was wondering if any details of what transpired between Kenobi and Larses in the years between RotS and ANH were noted in any canonical works (of any canon, including EU books/games/comics/etc...)?



Answer



Yes, in the junior novelisation of A New Hope, there's mention of an incident when Obi Wan saved Luke from dying in the desert. Evidently Owen was none too pleased and told him to go away:




Luke hadn’t seen Ben in five seasons, since the time Luke and his friend Windy had ridden a dewback into the Jundland Wastes, a rocky region that consisted of a mesa and a canyon. The dewback had thrown them into a canyon and ran off. By nightfall, the boys were bruised and tired and lost. Then they’d heard a voice calling Luke’s name. Incredibly, it had been Ben. He’d somehow found them, then guided them back to the Lars homestead. I still don’t know how he knew we were lost, or how he knew my name. But if Ben hadn’t helped us …



...



Luke knew his uncle didn’t like Ben, but had no idea why. The night that Ben had found Luke and Windy in the Jundland Wastes and brought them back to the moisture farm, Owen had become furious. Not at Luke, but at Ben. Owen had told Ben to get off the farm and never come back. I thought Uncle Owen would’ve been grateful to Ben for rescuing me. What does my uncle have against him?



This incident, and Ben Kenobi's subsequent conversation with Uncle Owen is explored in more detail in the (apparently fully canon) Webcomic "Star Wars" by Hong Jac Ca


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and in the fully canon 2015 [Marvel Star Wars][4] comics.



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Star Wars #015 - From the Journal of Old Ben Kenobi


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