The Cambridge discussion group that included C.S. Lewis and J.R.R. Tolkien was called the Inklings.
The Inklings were an informal literary discussion group associated mainly with Oxford, not Cambridge. Lewis and Tolkien were among its best-known members, and the group met regularly in Oxford during the 1930s and 1940s. Participants read aloud from works in progress and discussed literature, language, myth, and Christianity.
Other members included Charles Williams, Owen Barfield, Hugo Dyson, and Warren Lewis, C.S. Lewis’s brother. The meetings were not a formal society with a fixed membership list or constitution. Their importance came from conversation and criticism rather than from published group works.
The name can mislead readers because the Inklings were not principally a university department or an official club. They are remembered because several members produced influential fiction and criticism, including The Lord of the Rings and Lewis’s Narnia books and theological writings.