C.S. Lewis attended The Inklings with J.R.R. Tolkien and Charles Williams.
The Inklings was an informal Oxford literary discussion group active mainly during the 1930s and 1940s. Its members and guests read aloud from works in progress, discussed literature, and debated questions of imagination, myth, and Christian belief.
Lewis and Tolkien were among the best-known participants. Charles Williams was another important member, and Owen Barfield, Lewis’s close friend and intellectual influence, also belonged to the circle. Meetings were associated with Oxford locations including Lewis’s rooms at Magdalen College and the Eagle and Child pub, traditionally called the Bird and Baby.
The Inklings was not a formal club with a fixed membership list or published program. It is therefore misleading to treat it like a university society with official offices. Its importance lies in the creative exchange among writers whose works later became highly influential, especially Lewis’s Narnia books and Tolkien’s Middle-earth writings.