FUnny you should mention the similarity of 'hobgoblin' with 'hobbit'. When he was 'inventing' hobbits didn't Tolkien look at the seven things that would come before it in the dictionary and make a combination of those seven things.
I also thought of Hobgoblins as small a sneaky, but thats because the beer 'Hobgoblin' has a picture of a small, sneaky creature on the bottle.
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