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Ebon_Moon |
Goblins
Jul 12 2010, 3:17 PM EDT
I believe that there is more to the Goblin lore than one paragraph. However, you do have the gist of it, they were originally, pranksters and tricksters, who wandered the wilderness. Over time they went from mischief to malice, and became quite harmful to humankind. A Goblin could lead wayfarers from the well worn path's and road's,in the guise of a light, or a cloaked figure holding a light, the traveller would follow them for miles at a time, only to find the light vanish preluded by a vile cackle. They would realise that they, themselves were lost, or teetering on the edge of a gaping chasm, with just a single step to their own demise. In stories they started to appear as troglodyte type creatures, living underground and in caves, generally growing in a cruel and malicious temperament.
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1. RE: Goblins
Jul 12 2010, 8:04 PM EDT
I don't think you see goblins hired as mindless mercenaries until the Lord of the Rings series. Your right they were pranksters and tricksters and the goblin was actually a name fo the whole species. Underneath that you have Hobgoblins, boggarts, brownies and kobolds. These creatures started out with minuscule things like spoiling ilk or upsetting the baby and now you see them trying slit a travelers throat.
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2. RE: Goblins
Jul 12 2010, 8:10 PM EDT
Hehehe, a long way from spoiling milk. Yes, to be honest, i am not too sure how the Goblin went from just being annoying to being murderous.
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3. RE: Goblins
Jul 12 2010, 9:01 PM EDT
Perhaps as time progress the ideal of goblins became not a big threat so authors, needing to find henchmen to antagonist, used goblins because their seem to be many.
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4. RE: Goblins
Jul 12 2010, 9:06 PM EDT
How did they go from, being a solitary lonely creature, to living in vast hordes? That is quite a big step in a creatures natural methods of living.
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5. RE: Goblins
Jul 12 2010, 9:11 PM EDT
Well like I said, storytellers needed horeds of some stotic creature that was evil. The goblin was a perfect choice because it allowed some vunerabilites for the protaganist.
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