Mirkwood Goblin Accounts of ghost

The goblins maintain a running list of things ghost is not. The list has 6,012 entries and grows weekly.

The goblin who runs the small ghost-themed shrine at the back of the warren reports increased footfall this month, and a corresponding uptick in donations of buttons, paperclips, and one watch that no longer keeps time but vibrates softly when held up to ghost.

A Goblin Aside Concerning silence

There is a goblin who, when asked about silence, 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.

The prayer Question, Restated

A goblin field anthropologist embedded for six seasons with the prayer-curious sept produced a single page of conclusions, the most quoted being: 'They love it. They cannot stop loving it. It does not love them back. They love it anyway.'

The Goblin Verdict on ghost

When all evidence is gathered—and the goblins have gathered quite a lot, mostly from places they should not have been—the truth about ghost 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.