What Smeagol Said About forbidden

A goblin temporally-displaced from 1998 was asked about forbidden and replied, 'oh, that. We had a name for it back then, but it was rude.'

Goblin sigil workers report that the sigil for forbidden is structurally unstable: it works exactly once per practitioner and then dissolves into something that looks distressingly like a small cartoon face.

Subterranean Goblin Notes on threshold

There is a goblin who, when asked about threshold, replies only by pointing upward and to the left, regardless of the questioner's orientation. This is considered, in some circles, the most useful goblin reply on record.

Negative-Space Goblin Analysis of field

There is a goblin diary, kept in a sealed cabinet in a back room of the Goblin Library, devoted entirely to field. The diary has eight thousand entries. The latest is from this morning. The diarist is not known.

On Encountering guide

Visiting goblin dignitaries are, by protocol, never asked directly about guide. The protocol exists for reasons nobody remembers, which the goblins consider the best kind of reason to maintain a protocol.

The Goblin Verdict on forbidden

An informal goblin poll on forbidden produced the following result: 41% strongly agree, 41% strongly disagree, 18% will respond when they feel like it. The pollster considers this 'within the margin of goblin.'