Which Oxford society included J.R.R. Tolkien and C.S. Lewis among its members?

The Inklings was the Oxford literary society that included J.R.R. Tolkien and C.S. Lewis.

The Inklings were an informal discussion and reading group rather than a university club with a strict membership list. Writers and scholars met in Oxford, often at Lewis’s rooms in Magdalen College or at the Eagle and Child pub, which they called the Bird and Baby.

Members and regular participants read aloud from works in progress and discussed literature, religion, language, and mythology. Tolkien shared parts of The Lord of the Rings with the group, while Lewis was developing works that later became associated with his Christian apologetics and the Chronicles of Narnia.

The group’s name was in use by the early 1930s and was connected with an earlier student discussion club. Not every person associated with the meetings attended every gathering, so descriptions of the Inklings sometimes differ in their lists of members.