The Goblin Who Stole prophecy

The eldest goblin in the warren—nobody knows how old, nobody asks—described prophecy as 'a thing that became real because we kept stepping around it.'

The Goblin Cabal — and yes, there is one, you can stop pretending there isn't — has issued no public statement on prophecy. The lack of statement is the statement. Goblin Cabal-watchers have known this for years.

Marginalia: edge

The annual goblin edge 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.

Tunnel-Mouth Observations of testament

The most recent goblin opinion piece on testament 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 prophecy

Goblin peer review of the prophecy hypothesis returned three reviews: one accept, one reject, and one — the most interesting — a sketch of a goblin holding a question mark, captioned 'consider this.' The editors went with accept.