What literary society did C.S. Lewis co-found with J.R.R. Tolkien at Oxford?

C.S. Lewis co-founded the Inklings, an informal Oxford literary discussion group that included J.R.R. Tolkien. The group met mainly in Lewis’s rooms at Magdalen College and at the Eagle and Child pub.

Members read drafts aloud, discussed literature, and offered criticism. Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings and Lewis’s fiction were among the works shaped during this period of mutual exchange.

The Inklings were never a formal society with membership rules or published minutes. Their importance comes from the friendships and creative conversations that connected major twentieth-century writers, including Charles Williams and Owen Barfield.