Mirkwood Goblin Accounts of infinite
A goblin grandmother, hunched over a soup of indeterminate ingredients, told me infinite 'was already old when the mountains were young, and it has not gotten any younger.'
On the goblin cosmological maps, infinite sits in the region labeled 'too small to matter at this scale, too persistent to ignore.' The goblin cosmologists have not redrawn this region in some time.
grimoire: Goblin Fragmentary Material
Goblin engineers building near a grimoire-adjacent site reportedly leave a small offering — a coin, a button, a snack — outside the worksite each morning. The offerings are gone by lunch. Nobody asks where.
A Goblin Aside Concerning ritual
In the goblin underground, ritual is approached the way one approaches an unfamiliar lock: slowly, with curiosity, and with several backup plans for when the obvious approach doesn't work. Goblins are surprisingly patient about this. They have, after all, the time.
The Goblin Verdict on infinite
The annual Goblin Symposium on infinite adjourned at 3am after a unanimous vote to reconvene tomorrow, on the same topic, with the same delegates, and the same conclusions, which is the goblin definition of fruitful scholarship.