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Post by Ilúvatar on Feb 23, 2004 17:25:44 GMT -5
What do you know about the Inklings? How did they come into being? Who was involved in it? etc.
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Post by Legolas on Feb 26, 2004 9:20:38 GMT -5
inklings...is that from another tolkien book (besides lotr, the hobbit, and the sil)?
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Post by Galadriel on Mar 18, 2004 19:37:10 GMT -5
I belevie the Inklings, were a group of writers, who did differant books.
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Post by Legolas on Mar 19, 2004 9:34:16 GMT -5
lotr-related books?
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Post by Ilúvatar on Mar 19, 2004 10:34:41 GMT -5
The Inklings were a group of friends, CS Lewis was one of them. They would get together and discuss various things, as well as their writings. It was kind of like a "guys night out thing". They would all met down at the pub - The Bird and the Baby.
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Post by Legolas on Mar 19, 2004 16:11:40 GMT -5
okay. now i think i get it.
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Post by Elrond Séregon on Aug 5, 2004 0:07:49 GMT -5
I believe the Inklings were an Oxford literary club that met twice a week... tuesdays at the Eagle and Child pub and thursday nights in C.S. Lewis' room at Magdalen College. They were a group of professors who were male, Christian, and shared traditional, rather than modern, views of literature. When it comes to LOTR, many scholars feel that Tolkien would never have completed the work were is not for the Inklings, particularly C.S. Lewis, who kept urging him on. Also, one of the things the reader may notice amongst the Inklings is that they shared a common interest in the nature of evil. Perhaps this group influenced Tolkien's view that nothing is evil in the beginning, but you can make yourself evil.
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Post by Eru on Aug 5, 2004 9:25:16 GMT -5
Very well said Elrond!
Eagle & Child is the correct name of the pub, the nickname was Bird and Baby.
I've also been doing some reading about medievel, modern, and postmodern viewpoints. It seems that many moderns think of Lewis and Tolkien, et al as more in the medievel mindset, but after doing a little bit of research (much more is needed), I really think they were leaning more toward postmodern thought.
Just a bit of an aside.
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Post by Elrond Séregon on Aug 5, 2004 10:40:06 GMT -5
Thanks, Eru!
Yes, i definitely agree about them leaning more toward post-modern thought. Again, look at their views of evil in the works... it does indeed seem incredibly twentith century. The concept that the land is 'good' and that technology is 'evil' I believe comes right from Tolkien's experiences during WWI. Many of the soldiers were taken right out of their homelands and thrust into battle, so ultimately, they would look back upon their homelands in the midst of war as something 'good' to be fighting for. Unlike previous wars, WWI was also the first war in which massive technology was used (tanks, zeppelins, large-scale bombs, etc). How could it not affect Tolkien's way of thinking?
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