It
was not so much administration as entertainment, but he'd grown expert
at getting them to accomplish some approximation of what he wanted,
albeit that this frequently involved a dramatic lowering of expectations
on his part. The disturbing thing about ruling goblins, however, is
that one must think like a goblin and, after innumerable eons, he still wasn't at all sure that goblins thought.
And then he realised that he had, on the first attempt, conjugated that
as 'thunk'. Jareth briefly considered throwing himself off the nearest
cliff.