The Inklings were a mid-century club of writers and talkers who met twice a week in Oxford, Thursday nights in the Magdalen College rooms of C. S. Lewis, Tuesday mornings at a pub, the Eagle and Child (known to regulars as the Bird and Baby). All were interested in the power of words, stories, and myths; most were Christians. They saw the two interests as related (in the beginning was the Word). The Fellowship focuses on four of them — Lewis, J. R. R. Tolkien, Owen Barfield, and Charles Williams.
The Inklings were a productive group, and so are those who have written about them. The bibliography of The Fellowship devotes two pages to a discussion of other bibliographies, and 22 pages to individual titles. What are my credentials for adding my mite to this hoard?
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