Where did all the goblins go? - The Barrow-Downs Discussion Forum

littlemanpoet · 02-05-2007, 09:52 AM

Assuming that this is feigned history, one would expect that some goblins, orcses, trolls, and whatnot, survived, or there would be none left to fill the later folklores of the Northern Europeans from approximately 2000 B.C. until such folklores stopped being produced. That would mean no Grendel for Beowulf to fight, for example. So I am supposing that some did escape to the depths of the mountains and to the far nothern wastes beyond the reach of the King of Gondor.

02-05-2007, 09:52 AM	#7
littlemanpoet Itinerant Songster Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: The Edge of Faerie Posts: 7,066	Assuming that this is feigned history, one would expect that some goblins, orcses, trolls, and whatnot, survived, or there would be none left to fill the later folklores of the Northern Europeans from approximately 2000 B.C. until such folklores stopped being produced. That would mean no Grendel for Beowulf to fight, for example. So I am supposing that some did escape to the depths of the mountains and to the far nothern wastes beyond the reach of the King of Gondor.