The Christian discussion group associated with C.S. Lewis at Oxford was called the Inklings.
The Inklings were an informal literary discussion group active mainly during the 1930s and 1940s. Lewis was one of its central members, and meetings commonly involved reading aloud and discussing works in progress.
The group met in Lewis’s rooms at Magdalen College and at the Eagle and Child pub in Oxford, which members nicknamed the Bird and Baby. J.R.R. Tolkien was another prominent participant, and Charles Williams also became an important member.
The Inklings were not a formal society with a fixed membership list or official creed. Their importance came from sustained friendship, criticism, and conversation. Tolkien’s drafts of The Lord of the Rings and Lewis’s developing fiction were among the literary projects connected with this circle.