What literary group did C.S. Lewis help lead with J.R.R. Tolkien?

C.S. Lewis helped lead the literary group The Inklings with J.R.R. Tolkien.

The Inklings were an informal writers' discussion group associated with Oxford. Members met mainly at The Eagle and Child pub, known to them as the Bird and Baby, and also gathered in Lewis's rooms at Magdalen College, Oxford.

The group was active particularly during the 1930s and 1940s. Its members read sections of works in progress aloud, discussed literature, and offered criticism. Tolkien developed parts of The Lord of the Rings within this creative circle, while Lewis shared drafts and ideas connected with his own fiction and apologetic writing.

The Inklings were not a formal society with a fixed membership list or published manifesto. That informality distinguishes them from movements such as the Bloomsbury Group, which had a broader and more explicitly defined cultural identity.