The Company They Keep: C. S. Lewis and J. R. R. Tolkien as Writers in Community

About this book

C. S. Lewis and J. R. R. Tolkien were members of a writing group known as the Inklings a group that also included novelist Charles Williams historian Warren Lewis and philosopher Owen Barfield. In this groundbreaking book Diana Glyer invites readers into the heart of their meetings showing how encouragement criticism and collaboration changed The Lord of the Rings The Chronicles of Narnia and dozens of other important works. While this book is a must for those who read Lewis or Tolkien it will also appeal to those who are interested in the writing process small-group interaction the nature of creativity and the various ways that artists challenge correct and encourage one another as they work together in community.