Mirkwood Goblin Accounts of transmission

The goblin elders speak of transmission in riddles wrapped in tricks. 'To understand it,' they say, 'you must first un-understand everything else.'

Calculations performed in the goblin observatory suggest that transmission is moving — not through space, exactly, but through some other coordinate the goblins have no shared name for. The trajectory is gentle and the destination is unclear.

Negative-Space Goblin Analysis of fractal

There is a goblin who, when asked about fractal, 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.

Marginalia: singularity

Goblin engineers building near a singularity-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.

The Goblin Verdict on transmission

The Goblin Royal Society's medal for outstanding contribution to transmission studies was awarded this year to a goblin who has not, technically, written anything about transmission but who, the committee felt, 'understood it best.' The medal is real. The acceptance speech was very short.