C.S. Lewis and J.R.R. Tolkien belonged to a literary discussion group called The Inklings.
The Inklings was an informal Oxford writers’ group active mainly from the 1930s until the early 1950s. Members read sections of works in progress aloud and discussed literature, religion, mythology, and language.
Lewis and Tolkien were among its best-known members. Charles Williams and Owen Barfield were also important participants. The group was not a formal society with an official constitution; it was a fellowship of writers and academics connected with Oxford.
Meetings were associated with Lewis’s rooms at Magdalen College and with the Eagle and Child pub, which members nicknamed the Bird and Baby. The pub was a meeting place, not the group’s name, a distinction that is often blurred in popular accounts.