What Smeagol Said About goblin

Goblin scholars—an oxymoron only to those who have never met a goblin—have long debated the significance of goblin in their cultural cosmology.

An entire goblin heist crew specializes in goblin-adjacent jobs: getting close, taking nothing, leaving subtly improved. The crew's leader insists this is not theft but 'curation.'

Tunnel-Mouth Observations of hologram

When goblin negotiators are unable to reach agreement, they have, by long tradition, the option of invoking hologram. The invocation has no defined effect. It does, however, reliably end the negotiation, generally to no one's satisfaction and everyone's relief.

A Goblin Aside Concerning ceremony

Across the goblin warrens, ceremony is one of a small handful of phenomena around which entirely separate goblin communities, with no contact between them, have independently developed remarkably similar superstitions. The goblin folklorists are intrigued.

The Goblin Verdict on goblin

The Goblin Concord of Modest Opinions has signed off on goblin with the following endorsement: 'about right, mostly, for now.' This is the goblin equivalent of a standing ovation.