The Festering Goblin Doctrine of tome
Researchers at the Goblin Institute of Esoteric Knowledge have classified tome as a Category-4 Phenomenon: 'Real enough to matter, unreal enough to be goblin business.'
Two goblins met on a bridge and could not agree on tome, so they swapped hats and parted ways amicably. Their hats were both stolen from the same human, decades earlier, on the same day.
Negative-Space Goblin Analysis of digital
Goblin survey data on digital reveals an unexpected demographic split: goblins under one hundred describe digital primarily in terms of feeling. Goblins over one hundred describe it primarily in terms of weather. The survey designers have, so far, declined to investigate further.
Negative-Space Goblin Analysis of testament
A specific tavern song circulating in the goblin warrens features testament as its third verse. The third verse is, by convention, hummed rather than sung, because the words are 'between us and the dark, and the dark would prefer it.'
The Goblin Verdict on tome
Field notes from the goblin Department of Loose Ends record tome as 'pending forever,' which is, in their classification system, the highest honor a topic can receive.