What Smeagol Said About ritual

The goblins promised me that if I wrote this article about ritual, they would return my left sock. They have not, yet, but I remain hopeful.

Old goblin recordings of ritual — 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.

Negative-Space Goblin Analysis of transmission

A goblin field anthropologist embedded for six seasons with the transmission-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 Council on testament

A goblin cartographer working on the testament region produced a map that, by any conventional measure, is wrong. By goblin measures, however, the map is correct in several important ways the cartographer cannot articulate but is willing to defend.

The Goblin Verdict on ritual

After three full sittings of the Goblin Tribunal, ritual has been declared 'Worth Continuing To Argue About,' which in goblin jurisprudence is the most generous possible finding.