The Fellowship
The Literary Lives of the Inklings: J.R.R. Tolkien, C. S. Lewis, Owen Barfield, Charles Williams
About the book
Philip and Carol Zaleski's group biography follows the Inklings, the literary circle of C. S. Lewis, J.R.R. Tolkien, Owen Barfield and Charles Williams, which met every week for three decades in Lewis's Oxford rooms and nearby pubs. Members read works in progress aloud, argued over literature, faith and ideas, and gave one another criticism and friendship. The authors trace Lewis's conversion, which came during a ride in the sidecar of his brother's motorcycle, and his later fame as an evangelist and satirist; Tolkien's Old English scholarship alongside The Lord of the Rings; Barfield's philosophy of language and his role as Lewis's favorite sparring partner; and the poetry and supernatural thrillers of Williams.
Columbia Business School dean Glenn Hubbard, a longtime admirer of C. S. Lewis, said it deepened and widened his interest in Lewis by showing how his work was bound up with his friendships with Tolkien and the others.
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Glenn Hubbard (Dean/Columbia Business School & Former chairman/Council of Economic Advisers)
I have always admired and enjoyed the writings and speeches of C. S. Lewis, the brilliant Christian apologist. Lewis’s ideas, like his carefully constructed sentences seem so fully formed from within. But my interest in Lewis got deeper and broader as I read The Fellowship: The Literary Lives of the Inklings. The intertwining of Lewis’s work with his relationships with mythmaker J. R. R. Tolkien and literary lions Owen Barfield and Charles Williams cast Lewis in a new and fascinating light. The story reminds us all that the fount of ideas in a great university is as much about conversations as it is about one’s original thoughts.
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