The Goblin 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.'

A medical text in the goblin anatomy library devotes thirty pages to the tome-organ, an entity that does not appear in any reasonable taxonomy and which the goblin anatomists nevertheless palpate, weigh, and describe in unsettling detail.

The Goblin Council on whisper

The annual goblin whisper 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.

On Encountering engine

Goblin oral history places engine 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 engine is on it.

The Goblin Verdict on tome

On the question of tome, goblin opinion has stabilized at the position that there is no settled position, and that this is, itself, a settled position.