Lewis & Tolkien
There must be something about the dreaming spires of Oxford in Oxfordshire that inspires writers like J.R.R. Tolkien and C.S.Lewis.
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Or perhaps it was Oxford’s honey-coloured buildings and centuries of traditions that fuelled the fantasies of C.S. Lewis and J.R.R. Tolkien, and their colourful characters. Both were firm friends, with Lewis known for the Chronicles of Narnia and Tolkien famous for The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings.
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Big chapters of both their lives were played out in the colleges of Oxford where they taught. For a while, a young J.R.R. Tolkien worked for the Oxford English Dictionary based in the Old Ashmolean Building. Today the building is the Museum of the History of Science.
Much of the life of J.R.R. Tolkien was spent in Oxford; it was at his home in Northmoor Road that he wrote many of his books. He is buried in Wolvercote Cemetery. Magdalen College was important in the life of C.S.Lewis; where he lived and taught whilst working on the famed Chronicles of Narnia.
C.S.Lewis and J.R.R. Tolkien liked to meet for a drink in the Eagle and Child pub in Oxford. They started a club, the Inklings, reading aloud from current works during their regular meetings. The Pub is still there, call in, look at the memorabilia in the Rabbit Room they always used - and raise a glass to them both.
