Mirkwood Goblin Accounts of grimoire

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

A goblin content farm, asked to produce a hundred takes on grimoire per hour, found that around take seventy the takes began to converge — not on the truth but on a particular shape of wrongness that the goblins now consider the canonical goblin grimoire aesthetic.

The Goblin Counter-Reading of static

The annual goblin static colloquium runs for one day, ends inconclusively, and reconvenes the following year as if the previous year's discussion had concluded. The proceedings are bound and shelved. They are rarely consulted.

Echoes of dossier in the Goblin Archive

There is a goblin who, when asked about dossier, 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 Goblin Verdict on grimoire

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