Goblins In Modern Fiction
Two major branches of goblins exist in popular fiction, including fantasy settings. Alongside J. R. R. Tolkien's descriptions of Orcs, the older branch is inherently evil and malicious, with varying coloring and generally matted and filthy hair. This type of goblin appears in Dungeons & Dragons. The distinctive green-skinned, hairless, capricious, and generally amoral (rather than absolutely evil) goblins created for Warhammer are direct progenitors of goblins in more modern games, such as those in the Warcraft Universe or Magic: The Gathering.
- Arcanum (role-playing game)
- The Black Cauldron (film), 1985 by Walt Disney Pictures
- Diane Goode's Book of Scary Stories & Songs
- Dungeons & Dragons RPG game: Goblin (Dungeons & Dragons)
- Eerie #68-72 (1966)
- Fairy Tales (Terry Jones book), features Goblin City
- Fry Kids were originally named Gobblins, because they gobbled up fries.
- Gnomes (Discworld)
- Goblins - Life through their eyes a popular webcomic
- Goblins! by Brian Froud
- The Goblins Giggle, And Other Stories (1973) illustrated by Molly Bang
- Goblins in the Castle (Minstrel Book) by Bruce Coville (1992)
- Green Goblin - Spider-Man villain
- Hoppity Goblin & Other Stories (1954)
- I'm Dreaming of a Green Goblin - song from a Simpsons book Spooktacular, Homer's Favorite Halloween Carols
- Imaginext goblin toys
- Labyrinth (film)
- Legend (film) 1986
- Miniatures of goblins for RPGs (D&D, Warhammer, etc.)
- Orc (Middle-earth): In J. R. R. Tolkien's Middle-earth fantasy writings, "goblin" is just one of many names for the race of Orcs. It is usually used to describe Orcs from the Misty Mountains.
- Orc Magazine
- Outside Over There by Maurice Sendak features hooded goblins who steal a baby.
- The Spiderwick Chronicles
- Tales of Jig Dragonslayer (fantasy trilogy) - by Jim C. Hines
- The early Smurfs were called goblins.
- Troll 2
- X-Files Goblins book
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Famous quotes containing the words goblins, modern and/or fiction:
“Morning and evening
Maids heard the goblins cry:
‘Come buy our orchard fruits,
Come buy, come buy:”
—Christina Georgina Rossetti (1830–1894)
“It is unheard-of, uncivilized barbarism that any woman should still be forced to bear such monstrous torture. It should be remedied. It should be stopped. It is simply absurd that, with our modern science, painless childbirth does not exist as a matter of course.... I tremble with indignation when I think of ... the unspeakable egotism and blindness of men of science who permit such atrocities when they can be remedied.”
—Isadora Duncan (1878–1927)
“Although the primitive in art may be both interesting and impressive, as portrayed in American fiction it is conspicuous for dullness alone. Drab persons living drab lives, observed by drab minds and reported in drab writing ...”
—Ellen Glasgow (1873–1945)