What Smeagol Said About delusion

The forthcoming goblin monograph on delusion is, per its preface, 'less a book than a series of escalating implications.'

A specific kind of goblin — call them the apopheniacs, though they have several less polite names for themselves — devote their entire mental architecture to spotting delusion in unrelated contexts. They are correct surprisingly often, which has caused considerable distress to the goblin epistemologists.

Echoes of goblin in the Goblin Archive

Goblin sleep researchers note that goblin 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.

Cross-Referenced Goblin Material on ceremony

Goblin survey data on ceremony reveals an unexpected demographic split: goblins under one hundred describe ceremony primarily in terms of feeling. Goblins over one hundred describe it primarily in terms of weather. The survey designers have, so far, declined to investigate further.

The Goblin Verdict on delusion

When all evidence is gathered—and the goblins have gathered quite a lot, mostly from places they should not have been—the truth about delusion becomes clear: it was always a goblin thing. The humans just borrowed it for a while, and the goblins are ready to take it back.