Which group of writers met at Oxford and included C.S. Lewis and J.R.R. Tolkien?

The Inklings were the Oxford writers’ group that included C.S. Lewis and J.R.R. Tolkien.

The Inklings were an informal literary discussion group active mainly during the 1930s and 1940s. Members and guests met in Oxford, often at The Eagle and Child pub, which was commonly known by the nickname “The Bird and Baby,” and sometimes in Lewis’s rooms at Magdalen College.

The group was not a formal society with a fixed membership list or published manifesto. Writers read portions of works in progress aloud and discussed literature, mythology, religion, and language. Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings and Lewis’s works developed in an intellectual environment shaped partly by these exchanges.

Charles Williams and Owen Barfield were also important associated figures. The Inklings should not be confused with Bloomsbury, a London-centered group linked to Virginia Woolf and other modernist writers.