busyTHERE WILL BE SPOILERS.
Seriously. If anyone comments here at all, THERE WILL BE SPOILERS. So please don't read and then yell at me because you encountered spoilers. You were warned. (I will not reply to every comment; I call partial comment amnesty. But I may well join some of the discussion, or answer questions or whatnot.) I will be DELETING all comments containing spoilers which have been left on other posts. No one gets to spoil people here without a label.
You can also start a discussion at my website forums, with less need to be concerned that I will see everything you say! In case you wanted, you know, discussion free of authorial influence, since I always wind up getting involved in these things.
Have fun, and try not to bleed on the carpet.
March 4 2016, 14:31:27 UTC 1 year ago
March 8 2016, 06:08:43 UTC 1 year ago
"An extremely dangerous and foolhardy exercise, goblin knitting is undertaken with only one knitting needle - but one that is barbed and has two razor-sharp edges to it. It takes two goblins to knit a scarf or a sweater and demands a remarkable degree of coordination and cooperation, which is, quite honestly, totally alien to the goblin nature. Hence the knitting usually breaks down into a violent argument, and blood flows within a matter of one or two stitches.
In fact, nowadays the traditional preliminaries of carding and skeining the wool, discussing the knitting pattern and choosing a pretty colour, are usually dispensed with, and the knitters get straight down to the business of hacking each other to pieces."
(Extract from The Goblin Companion: Goblins of the Labyrinth by Terry Jones and Brian Froud.)