C.S. Lewis’s Oxford literary discussion group was called the Inklings.
The Inklings were an informal group of writers and academics who met mainly at Oxford’s Eagle and Child pub and in Lewis’s rooms at Magdalen College. The group was active from the early 1930s until the 1940s and included Lewis, J.R.R. Tolkien, Charles Williams, and Owen Barfield.
The name was initially connected with the idea of an unpublished work or an emerging literary idea. The Inklings did not have a formal membership list or constitution, so accounts of who attended can vary. Their meetings involved reading drafts aloud, discussing literature, and debating ideas. The group is especially associated with the development of works such as Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings and Lewis’s fiction and apologetics.