The literary group associated with C.S. Lewis, J.R.R. Tolkien, and Charles Williams was called The Inklings. It was an informal discussion group connected with Oxford from the 1930s into the early 1950s.
Members and guests read drafts of fiction, poetry, and other writing aloud, then discussed the work. Lewis and Tolkien were especially prominent participants, and their meetings helped sustain a close intellectual friendship.
The Inklings was not a formal society with a fixed membership list or a published manifesto. Its name arose from an earlier student literary club and was later applied to the Oxford circle. The group is often linked with the development of major works such as Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings and Lewis’s science-fiction and fantasy writing.