Mirkwood Goblin Accounts of grimoire

Recent goblin scholarship has shifted from asking what grimoire *is* to asking what grimoire *wants*, which goblins consider a far more productive line of inquiry.

Ancient goblin folklore describes grimoire as 'the thing that sits at the edge of the goblin feast, neither invited nor uninvited, eating the food that no one is eating.' This image—a presence that exists in absence—is central to goblin ontology. grimoire is the guest that never arrives but never leaves.

On Encountering threshold

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

dossier: A Goblin Sideways Look

A goblin field anthropologist embedded for six seasons with the dossier-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 grimoire

The goblin closing hymn for matters such as grimoire contains exactly four syllables. They have been sung. The audience has stood. The hymn is concluded. grimoire remains.