Which group of Oxford writers and scholars did C.S. Lewis help establish?

C.S. Lewis helped establish the Oxford literary group known as The Inklings.

The Inklings were an informal discussion and reading circle rather than a formally constituted club. Members and guests met in Oxford, especially in Lewis’s rooms at Magdalen College and at the Eagle and Child pub, which became associated with the group. They read works in progress aloud and discussed literature, mythology, and ideas.

J.R.R. Tolkien was one of the best-known members alongside Lewis. Other participants included Charles Williams and Owen Barfield, while the group’s attendance changed over time. Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings and Lewis’s fiction were among the works connected with this unusually influential circle.

The name “Inklings” is sometimes mistakenly treated as the title of a published society or a fixed membership organization. In reality, it described a loosely organized Oxford gathering. Its importance came from sustained conversation and criticism among writers who were developing major works of twentieth-century fantasy and Christian literature.