Up until now our scanty knowledge of goblins has been based on speculation, but we now know a great deal more, thanks to an important archeological find of forty-three notebooks created by Dashe, a goblin portraitist. These notebooks are sketchy, but years of painstaking reconstruction by the eminent part-time goblinologist Brian Froud, backed up by years of dry research by his colleague, the noted academic Terry Jones, have amounted to an illustrated who's who of the goblin world.