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The Inklings club is referenced in Lord of the Rings Online; the club members (with slightly changed names) can be found in The Bird and Baby Inn in the Shire. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 98.27.171.125 ( talk) 19:41, 26 August 2016 (UTC)
I am removing the St Ignatius related entry; It appears fallacious and can't be backed up by an internet search.
Carpenter's book THE INKLINGS is well worth reading on this subject, imo. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 209.206.164.99 ( talk • contribs)
Dorothy L. Sayers was not a member of the group. Really. She knew and respected some of the members, particularly Lewis, but did not live anywhere near Oxford and did not meet with them. Dandrake 08:02, Feb 8, 2004 (UTC)
I've seen (ubsubstantiated) reference elsewhere to an association of the Inklings with Chesterton. Does anyone know whether this is the case, and if so, should it be included? - FZ
The entry for The Eagle and the Child states that the Inklings met between 1939 and 1962, whereas this article states they met between the 30's and the 50's. Which is it? Suppafly 21:22, 10 Aug 2004 (UTC)
Clubs named after the Inklings that are not otherwise noteworthy do not belong on this page, in my opinion. I plan to delete these, but would like to solicit opinions before I do so. Brighterorange 15:59, 31 January 2006 (UTC)
While the anonymous editor who keeps inserting [1] the paragraph about St. Ignatius has not participated in the discussion here, you may be interested in reading or participating at User_talk:Brighterorange#inklings. As he has admitted that the information is unverifiable, that he is a former member of the group, and the paragraph itself notes that the group is not known even within the St. Ignatius community, I even more strongly recommend its removal. — brighterorange ( talk) 00:39, 4 April 2006 (UTC)
Which ones were not Christians? Just wondering, a citation would be helpful. ( User:Jaysonwhelpley
Tiny point, and sorry if there is a stylesheet somewhere, but why is the University of Oxford 'England' whereas Wheaton College is 'Illinois'. Either make it Oxford, Oxfordshire (to match Illinois) or Wheaton, USA (to match England). Do delete this quibble if you feel that England/UK is justly equivalent to Illinois/USA! 81.154.180.147 20:54, 15 November 2006 (UTC)
The statement that the Inklings were mostly Christians, though some were "Atheists and Anthroposophists", is quite misleading. Anthroposophy is not a religion or religious position, although as an attempt at scientific exploration of all human questions including spiritual ones it does explore religious questions. Barfield, who would be the leading person in question, was an anthroposophist but that certainly cannot be stated in contrast to his being a Christian. I won't go into what anthroposophical researches assert about religious questions, but it won't do to state it as it is now. -- jb 00:19, 28 December 2006 (UTC)
In the current list Percy Bates is not an Inkling, and Roger Lancerlyn Green is an Inkling only in one sense. The list of members at the back of Humphrey Carpenter's _The Inklings_ is basic. The problem with Green is that both W. H. Lewis in his diary and Carpenter in his book apply the name "Inklings" to the evening meetings at which manuscripts were read. The Tuesday (and later Monday) meetings in a pub were not Inklings meetings in their view, just by and large the same group of friends meeting for talk and drinks. But a number of people who did not attend the evening meetings have referred to the Tuesday meetings as Inklings meetings. (The pub meetings continued long after the writers' group died.) The write-up needs to distinguish the two meanings, not necessarily say one is the only right way to use the name. Green was an Inkling in the sense that he attended a number of the Tuesday pub meetings, but not in the W. H. Lewis and Carpenter sense. Joe R. Christopher, 17 April 2007 70.246.102.110
I call it that, and it is noted in the Wiki entry for the pub itself as a standard student nickname for it. Myopic Bookworm 15:16, 10 May 2007 (UTC)
why are all the links dark red? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 65.68.0.94 ( talk • contribs)
The existing caption is really rather misleading- Lewis and friends did not meet in a corner of the public bar! The area depicted was in their day a separate room, actually the publican Charlie Blagrove's private parlour, which he allowed Lewis and friends to use on Tuesday mornings. The door was kept firmly shut, and one Inkling remembers that the air became "quite blue with tobacco-smoke."
When the pub changed ownership in 1962 the partition wall was torn down; this was one of the principal reasons the Inklings moved across the street to the Lamb and Flag. Solicitr 03:29, 19 October 2007 (UTC)
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Two photos of the B&B pub, which was not actually an Inklings site, but no pictures of Lewis' rooms at Magdalen where the Inklings' actual meetings were held on Thursday nights? (Lewis was a B&B regular on Tuesday mornings and his friends would catch up with him there, in such numbers that Charlie Blagrove the publican would lend them his private sitting-room (at that time a separate room, with a door); while these friends certainly could include Tolkien, Warnie and other Inklings, these were never considered "meetings" and no readings took place there. The article needs a Magdalen pic, and it should appear first. Solicitr ( talk) 20:41, 16 January 2020 (UTC)
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Just to clarify the relationship between Dorothy L. Sayers and Tolkien (or lack thereof):
While she is known to have corresponded frequently with C.S. Lewis and Charles Williams, there is no such evidence for Tolkien. The only mention of Sayers in Tolkien's published letters (Carpenter, Humphrey (1981), The Letters of J.R.R. Tolkien, London: George Allen & Unwin, p. 82) is in a 1944 letter to Christopher Tolkien where he states he loathes her. Lewis believed that the two had never met (Lewis, W.H. (1988), Letters of C.S. Lewis, London: Collins, p. 481), which is backed up by the 1966 letter from Tolkien to Roger Verhulst discussing a planned American edition of Essays Presented to Charles Williams (Prokhorova, Natalia (2012), The Almost Unpublished Letters of J.R.R. Tolkien, retrieved 16 May 2022):
"Many different people, attracted by the central magnet of Lewis, paid occasional visits, and sometimes even read things they had written: E. R. Edison, for instance, and Roy Campbell. But that did not constitute membership. I never met Dorothy L. Sayers and do not think she can be included, although an essay of hers (as a friend of Charles Williams) was printed in the above-mentioned Essays."
The reference cited as evidence that Dorothy L. Sayers was a frequent correspondent of Lewis and Tolkien states rather that she was a correspondent of Lewis and Williams (Doughan, David (1996), "Tolkien, Sayers, Sex and Gender", Mythlore, vol. 21, pp. 356–359). Catfish Jim and the soapdish 22:48, 16 May 2022 (UTC)
The above quote from Carpenter's book (The Inklings) raised a question about this entry. Carpenter talks in detail of Eddison's visit but unsurprisingly does not mention the presence of his wife. Eddison's article mentions that his wife's name was Winifred... It looks like this was a result of a drive by prank by an IP editor in February 2019 [3]. Catfish Jim and the soapdish 13:41, 20 May 2022 (UTC)
Neither appear in Carpenter's book about the Inklings. I can find no reference to Camille Smith being a cousin of Lewis (perhaps I haven't looked hard enough) outside of pieces that are clearly based on this WP article. Another drive-by prank, possibly, added by IP editor in September 2019 [4]. It had previously been added (and correctly reverted) in a clear act of vandalism in February 2019 [5]. J.H. Grant III seems to have been added in similar circumstances [6]. Catfish Jim and the soapdish 14:41, 20 May 2022 (UTC)