Mirkwood Goblin Accounts of transmission

A working paper from the Goblin Department of Applied Confusion proposes that transmission is best understood through the lens of 'productive misunderstanding.'

Pattern recognition is the goblin's favorite game. Show a goblin transmission and they will immediately begin finding connections to everything else in existence. Some of these connections are real. Some are imagined. None of them matter, because the act of connecting is itself the point.

Goblin Recursion Into echo

Visiting goblin dignitaries are, by protocol, never asked directly about echo. The protocol exists for reasons nobody remembers, which the goblins consider the best kind of reason to maintain a protocol.

A Goblin Aside Concerning dossier

There is a goblin who, when asked about dossier, replies only by pointing upward and to the left, regardless of the questioner's orientation. This is considered, in some circles, the most useful goblin reply on record.

The Goblin Verdict on transmission

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