Talk:The Inklings

message: 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)
thread_title:  Something to add to Legacy section 

message: I am removing the St Ignatius related entry; It appears fallacious and can't be backed up by an internet search.
:How can I prove the Saint Ignatius Inklings to you? Could I take a picture of all of us posing next to a chalk board with "INKLINGS" written on it? Would that be enough or not?
::It's not a question of proving that the group exists; we believe you—but wikipedia is only for encyclopedic subjects, and literary societies aren't inherently notable enough (even if they share a name with a famous one). Is there something that makes the Saint Ignatius Inklings famous? — brighterorange (talk) 20:34, 25 February 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Saint Ignatius 

message: 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 Inklings were certainly Chesterton fans, but of course much younger: GKC was never a member, and in fact died shortly after the group was founded.--Solicitr (talk) 22:39, 13 November 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Chesterton? 

message: 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)
thread_title:  Locations 

message: 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)
thread_title:  Christians and Anthroposophists 

message: 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 200770.246.102.110
:Agreed- especially since Thursady evenings at Magdelen were members-and-guests-only: not a rule you could readily enforce in a pub!--Solicitr (talk) 22:41, 13 November 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  WHO WERE INKLINGS? 

message: 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)
replies: text: I don't call it that; unfortunately, you need a reference for inclusion which isn't just anecdotal and demonstrates that the nickname is notable enough to be included on a completely separate article. --163.1.165.116 16:39, 3 June 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: I have now reverted this yet again.  I also altered the sentence which refers to the pub as "Bird and Baby" in the main text of the article, added a reference, and created a ref. list as the end of the article.  I have never created a reference list before, so someone with more experience should alter and improve it.  Thanks. ---Cathal 17:14, 3 June 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Bird and Baby 

message: why are all the links dark red? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 65.68.0.94 (talk • contribs) 
:This has happened in the past, and to the best of my knowledge, no one has come up with a good explanation.  If you are interested, you can see the discussion that took place at the Village Pump []. ---Cathal 21:27, 17 May 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  red links? 

message: 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)
replies: text: Do we have that mentioned in the article? that seems really notable as far as this group is concerned, do we have a WP:RS? Lets get it in there if we do!EliteArcher88 (talk) 20:41, 24 September 2020 (UTC)
thread_title: Pub Interior Photo

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thread_title:  External links modified 

message: 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)
replies: text: I've added one, although not really the best since it's just a general shot of the building. Solicitr (talk) 20:55, 16 January 2020 (UTC)
replies: text: Still a great addition tho, thanks Solicitr!EliteArcher88 (talk) 20:25, 24 September 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Meeting place 

message: There is a move discussion in progress on Talk:Inkling which affects this page. Please participate on that page and not in this talk page section. Thank you.  —RMCD bot 13:33, 27 April 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Move discussion in progress 

message: 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 . Catfish Jim and the soapdish 13:41, 20 May 2022 (UTC)
thread_title: E.R. Eddison and his wife Molly Eddison

message: 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 . It had previously been added (and correctly reverted) in a clear act of vandalism in February 2019 . J.H. Grant III seems to have been added in similar circumstances . Catfish Jim and the soapdish 14:41, 20 May 2022 (UTC)
replies: text: I've temporarily protected this page due to persistent vandalism, with the repeated re-addition of JH Grant III, whoever that is. He is not mentioned in any books about the Inklings and online references are all traceable to earlier versions of this article. Catfish Jim and the soapdish 17:44, 1 July 2022 (UTC)
thread_title: Camille Smith and J.H. Grant III