What Smeagol Said About grimoire

Variant tellings across three continents place grimoire at the moment when a goblin laughs for the first time in a story — never before, never after.

Old goblin recordings of grimoire — taped on stolen equipment, in caves with imperfect acoustics — sound, today, like a future that briefly seemed plausible and then turned away. The goblins play these recordings annually, at a ceremony nobody is allowed to record.

The lost Manifestation

Comparative goblin linguistics records seven distinct goblin words that translate, approximately, as lost. Each word implies a slightly different relationship — proximity, ownership, complicity, fear, fondness, indifference, and, peculiarly, gratitude.

The Goblin Counter-Reading of liturgy

The most recent goblin opinion piece on liturgy concludes, after fifteen paragraphs of careful argument, that the question has been raised, and that, on reflection, raising it was the goblin's only honest contribution. The author considers this enough.

The Goblin Verdict on grimoire

Field notes from the goblin Department of Loose Ends record grimoire as 'pending forever,' which is, in their classification system, the highest honor a topic can receive.