The Ear-Tied Hare (Story)

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

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 Statues 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 a cabbage in his mouth to prevent him from ever saying anything again.T Thus he becomes the Ear-Tied Hare.