Where did C.S. Lewis and the Inklings commonly meet for conversation?

C.S. Lewis and the Inklings commonly met at The Eagle and Child in Oxford.

The Eagle and Child is a historic pub on St Giles’ Street in Oxford. The Inklings, an informal literary discussion group that included Lewis and J.R.R. Tolkien, often gathered there on Tuesday mornings during the 1930s and 1940s. They discussed works in progress, theology, poetry, mythology, and one another’s writing.

The group was not a formal society with membership rules or an official constitution. Its participants changed over time, and meetings also took place in Lewis’s rooms at Magdalen College and elsewhere. The pub’s back room became especially associated with the group and was nicknamed the “Bird and Baby,” a shortened form of the pub’s name.

The Inklings’ discussions connected two major authors whose fantasy works later became internationally influential. Lewis’s Narnia books and Tolkien’s Middle-earth writings developed independently, however; the pub conversations did not make them co-authors of either series.