The Ear-Tied Hare (Story)

Note: This covers the fairy tale of the Ear-Tied Hair. For the titular character, see Lop-Eared Hare.

The Ear-Tied Hare is an L'Morai children's story and fairy tale. Like other l'Morai fairy tales, the Ear-Tied Hare was created to demonstrate a moral lesson from the Statutes of l'Morai. The describes what happens to a group of farm animals once their masters die in a fire, particularly the pitiful Lop-Eared Hare.

The animals all contend they should be leader because of various admirable or positive qualities, save for Lop-Eared Hare, which has nothing to mention. As a hierarchy and dominion over various social roles are given, pitiful Lop-Eared Hare lacking comment or contribution, receives no dominion. Because he remains silent, he becomes a nonentity to step on, beat up, and mistreat. He endures until Quince the Horse steps on his ear, to which Lop-Eared Hare shrieks. Startled into a panic, Quince thrashes about, injuring and frightening everyone nearby.

The other animals get together to decide how to have the situation. Without anything to say, Lop-Eared Hare let them use a reign to restrain his ears and stuff fleece in his mouth to prevent him from ever saying anything again. Thus he becomes the Ear-Tied Hare and lied down for the other animals to walk over. Though they did not mean to cause him injury, they nonetheless brought about his end, unable to hear his fleece-muted cries.