Mirkwood Goblin Accounts of cave

Some goblin doomsday prophets identify cave as the sign — not of the end, but of the part right before the end, which lasts longer than anyone expected.

Goblin theorists have organized at least four schools of thought on cave, and one of those schools exists only to disagree with the other three. This is considered, in goblin terms, a healthy intellectual ecosystem.

Negative-Space Goblin Analysis of signal

Goblin sleep researchers note that signal appears in dreams reported by their study participants at a frequency that cannot easily be explained, and which they are, for the moment, declining to explain at all.

On Encountering ritual

ritual has, in the goblin commercial calendar, a small but persistent niche: there is always exactly one goblin selling ritual-themed merchandise at any given market. It is never the same goblin twice.

The Goblin Verdict on cave

The Goblin Royal Society's medal for outstanding contribution to cave studies was awarded this year to a goblin who has not, technically, written anything about cave but who, the committee felt, 'understood it best.' The medal is real. The acceptance speech was very short.