The Inklings were an informal literary group, mainly of J.R.R. Tolkien, C.S. Lewis, Owen Barfield, Hugo Dyson, Nevill Coghill, and Charles Williams. The group would often meet on Thursdays and Tuesdays between 1930 and 1949, sometimes at the Oxford pub of The Eagle and the Child and at other times at Lewis' rooms in Magdalen College, to read and criticize each member's literary work-in-progress. Tolkien's son Christopher was involved for a short time.
Among notable novels first read to The Inklings were The Lord of the Rings, and Lewis's Out of the Silent Planet. The group was based out of the University of Oxford, England, as most of its members were academics there. It met between the 1930s and the 1960s.
Books on the Inklings
- Myth and Magic: Art according to the Inklings
- The Inklings: C. S. Lewis, J. R. R. Tolkien and Their Friends
- The Fellowship: The Literary Lives of the Inklings
- The Company They Keep: C. S. Lewis and J. R. R. Tolkien as Writers in Community
- Bandersnatch: C.S. Lewis, J.R.R. Tolkien, and the Creative Collaboration of the Inklings
- The Oxford Inklings: Lewis, Tolkien and Their Circle
- The Inklings & King Arthur
- Gifted Amateurs and Other Essays: On Tolkien, the Inklings, and Fantasy Literature
- The Inklings, the Victorians, and the Moderns
- Christian Mythmakers
- Lord of the Elves and Eldils
- The Inklings Handbook
Translations
| Foreign Language | Translated name |
| Afrikaans | Die Inklings |
| Belarusian Cyrillic | Інклінгі |
| Bulgarian Cyrillic | Инклинги |
| Catalan | Els Inklings |
| Cebuano | Ang mga Inklings |
| Chinese | 迹象文学社 |
| Dutch | De Inklings |
| Filipino | Ang mga Inklings |
| French | Les Inklings |
| Galician | Os Inklings |
| Georgian | ინკლინგები |
| German | Die Inklings |
| Hebrew | אינקלינגס |
| Irish Gaelic | Na hInklings |
| Italian | Gli Inklings |
| Japanese | インクリングズ |
| Korean | 잉클링스 |
| Lithuanian | Inklingai |
| Luxembourgish | D 'Inklings |
| Maltese | L-Inklings |
| Polish | Inklingowie |
| Portuguese | Os Inklings |
| Russian | Инклинги |
| Scottish Gaelic | Na h-Inklings |
| Serbian | Инклингс (Cyrillic) Inklings (Latin) |
| Slovak | Inklingovia |
| Spanish | Los Inklings |
| Thai | อิงคลิงส์ |
| Ukrainian Cyrillic | Інклінги |
| Welsh | Yr Inklings |
