The Oxford Inklings: Lewis, Tolkien and Their Circle

The Oxford Inklinks recounts the narrative of the companionships, shared impact, and normal reason for the Suspicions – the scholarly circle which congregated around C.S. Lewis and J.R.R. Tolkien. Meeting in bars or Lewis’ school rooms, they incorporated a compelling cluster of scholarly figures. They were, guaranteed writer and author John Wagon, twisted on ‘the assignment of diverting the entire current of contemporary workmanship and life’. Tolkien and Lewis master Colin Duriez unloads the Notions’ beginnings, connections, and the idea of their cooperation. He shows how they affected, energized, and shaped one another.

Duriez likewise covers the less observed Inklinks, ignored, he asserts, for a really long time. What did they owe – and offer – to the more recognized names? What united them? Furthermore, what, in the end, divided them from their underlying concentration upon one another’s compositions?