>(If you want an example of a fairly young Jedi Master who has appeared
>in the films, though, Obi-Wan was confirmed as one at the end of
>Phantom Menace, and he's supposed to be in his early twenties.)

...Okay, now it's my turn to be pedantic.

Obi-Wan was made a Jedi Knight at the end of TPM. Not Master. I don't think even defeating a Sith Lord will take a Jedi from Padawan to Master in one leap.

Secondly, based on all available sources, the youngest he could possibly be is 28. If you base it on his age stated as of ANH in one of the character guides (60), and go backwards from there, he's 28. (TPM is set 32 years before the Battle of Yavin.) Based on the official (not canon, official) literature, his age in TPM is 33: he was the unusually old age of 13 when he became Qui-Gon's Padawan (young Jedi usually become Padawans at around 8 or 9, after preliminary training under, in the TPM timeframe, Master Yoda -- cf "Jedi Apprentice" novels), and, according to the novelization, Obi-Wan had been Qui-Gon's Padawan for twenty years as of TPM. It is stated in the novel that Obi-Wan looks like he's in his early twenties to Qui-Gon.

Obi-Wan doesn't become a Jedi Master for some time. As for Luke... he takes the title of Master, eventually, because he knows more about the Jedi ways than any other living being in his time, and he's the most powerful Jedi alive to boot, but he's not absolutely sure about his own mastery.

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