Meet C.S. Lewis’s coterie of close friends and sharp critics. On Tuesday Christianity Today Weblog noted that, thanks to a major reprinting of the works of C.S. Lewis—as well as a controversial ...

The Literary Lives of the Inklings: J.R.R. Tolkien, C.S. Lewis, Owen Barfield, Charles Williams By Philip Zaleski and Carol Zaleski Farrar Straus Giroux. 644 pp. $35 In “The Fellowship,” Philip and ...

It was an awful name for a wizard. Early drafts of “The Hobbit,” the children’s fairytale by J.R.R. Tolkien, referred to the bearded man in the pointy hat as “Bladorthin,” which sounds like an Elvish ...

The fellowship of the old masters of fantasy. C.S. Lewis, J.R.R. Tolkien and their literary club, “The Inklings.” The Eagle and Child, a pub in Oxford, England, was the central meeting place for the ...

The Inklings will not go away. College courses devoted to this informal association of Christian authors based in Oxford in the 1930s and ’40s are oversubscribed. Their books sell millions yearly.

For fans with lesser appetites, there are still sections that will surprise and even delight. But be warned: A lot of this has the literary quality and overwhelming volume of obscure specifics of the ...