The Inklings • I came to the conclusion that Lord of the Rings...

I came to the conclusion that Lord of the Rings was, most probably, the best book that ever could be written, which put me in something of a quandary. I wanted to be a writer when I grew up. (That’s not true: I wanted to be a writer then.) And I wanted to write The Lord of the Rings. The problem was that it had already been written.

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The Inklings was an informal literary discussion group that met at a small pub in Oxford, England, for nearly two decades between the early 1930s and late 1949.

Regular members of the Inklings included many prominent literary figures of the 20th century. Among them were J. R. R. Tolkien, C. S. Lewis, Owen Barfield, Charles Williams, and Hugo Dyson.