Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site rti-sel.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!decvax!mcnc!rti-sel!wfi From: wfi@rti-sel.UUCP (William Ingogly) Newsgroups: net.sf-lovers Subject: Re: Tolkien's dwarf names Message-ID: <403@rti-sel.UUCP> Date: Tue, 10-Sep-85 15:16:22 EDT Article-I.D.: rti-sel.403 Posted: Tue Sep 10 15:16:22 1985 Date-Received: Thu, 12-Sep-85 23:44:38 EDT References: <3444@topaz.RUTGERS.EDU> <700@psivax.UUCP> <561@calmasd.UUCP> <269@lzwi.UUCP> Reply-To: wfi@rti-sel.UUCP (William Ingogly) Organization: Research Triangle Institute, NC Lines: 15 Summary: In article <269@lzwi.UUCP> nrh@lzwi.UUCP (N.R.HASLOCK) writes: >It seems to me that back when I was living in England and more hyped >on Tolkien than I am now, that there was frequent comments about his >writing technique. > >He was a friend of C.S.Lewis and would meet regularly together with >some other literary friends. He would take sections of his current >work and read them to the group who would then criticise. ... I think the group was called the Inklings or something similar. Another member of the group was Charles Williams, writer of fantasies like 'All Hallow's Eve.' -- Cheers, Bill Ingogly