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The New Building at Magdalen College.The Inklings met in C. S. Lewis's rooms, above the arcade on the right side of the central block.. The Inklings were an informal literary discussion group associated with J. R. R. Tolkien and C. S. Lewis at the University of Oxford for nearly two decades between the early 1930s and late 1949. [1]
The Company They Keep challenges the commonly held belief that the Inklings did not influence each other through a detailed and engaging examination of both published and unpublished works, papers, and letters written by J.R.R. Tolkien, C.S. Lewis, Charles Williams, Owen Barfield, Warren Lewis and the lesser-known writers who comprised the ...
Published in 2007, the book overturned assumptions held for more than 30 years. [2] [3] It was recognized as a landmark study. [3] [4] The Company They Keep won the Mythopoeic Scholarship Award (Inklings Studies) [5] and was a finalist for the 2008 Hugo Award for Best Related Work at Denvention 3, the 66th World Science Fiction Convention. [6]
In 1991 the literary award was broken into two categories: the Mythopoeic Fantasy Award for Adult Literature and the Mythopoeic Fantasy Award for Children’s Literature. The Mythopoeic Scholarship Award in Inklings Studies is given to books on J.R.R. Tolkien, C.S. Lewis, and/or Charles Williams that make significant contributions to Inklings ...
It is impossible to overstate how much Lewis and Tolkein's friendship impacted the shape of fantasy literature. The Real Story Behind How C.S. Lewis Helped J. R. R. Tolkien Shape The Lord of the Rings
Barfield has been known as "the first and last Inkling."He had a profound influence on C. S. Lewis and, through his books The Silver Trumpet and Poetic Diction (dedicated to Lewis), an appreciable effect on J. R. R. Tolkien, who made use of the ideas in his writings with the theme of decline and fall in Middle-earth. [2]
A Question of Time examines in particular Tolkien's two unfinished time-travel novels, The Lost Road and The Notion Club Papers, and the time-travel aspects of The Lord of the Rings. These encompass Frodo's dreams and the land of the Elves, Lothlórien. Flieger won the 1998 Mythopoeic Award for Inklings studies for the book.
The plaque to the Inklings in the Eagle and Child in 1979. Reading it is a member of The Tolkien Society. The Eagle and Child featured in Colin Dexter's novel The Secret of Annexe 3, in which Inspector Morse and Sergeant Lewis read the wooden plaque to the Inklings in the pub's back bar. [25]