Recently, when watching The Hobbit (1977), I realized that goblins were not always the lovely emeral hue we have today. So how did we get here? Was it Dungeons & Dragons? Warhammer? Warcraft? Lord of the Rings? Was it a troubling seed sprouting in the collective unconscious of humanity, at last vitalized and coming to life? All of those and none of them.
This is a video asking those questions and trying to get to some kind of answer. It's a long journey with lots of pictures and references, so who knows exactly where we'll end up. But we don't stop digging until we've dug too deep and then we dig just a little bit more, for kicks.
If you have any additional information, let me know. Maybe we'll find some more tunnels to explore to get to the very very bottom of this.
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