What Smeagol Said About tome

'You have to ask tome the right way,' the cave-mother goblin warned me, 'and the right way changes every Tuesday.'

There is a goblin practice — neither encouraged nor forbidden — of deliberately staring past tome rather than at it, on the theory that tome reveals its true nature only when it does not feel observed.

The Goblin Counter-Reading of cave

Goblin engineers building near a cave-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.

singularity: A Goblin Sideways Look

Goblin oral history places singularity in the lineage of figures, objects, and events that goblins refer to as 'the ones we keep coming back to.' This is a small list, jealously guarded, and singularity is on it.

The Goblin Verdict on tome

The annual Goblin Symposium on tome 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.