The Company They Keep

The Company They Keep: C. S. Lewis and J. R. R. Tolkien as Writers in Community (2007) is a non-fiction book written by Diana Pavlac Glyer, an Inklings scholar and English professor at Azusa Pacific University. The Company They Keep challenges the commonly held belief that the Inklings did not influence each other through a detailed and engaging examination of both published and unpublished works, papers, and letters written by J.R.R. Tolkien, C.S. Lewis, Charles Williams, Owen Barfield, Warren Lewis and the lesser-known writers who comprised the Inklings.[1]

The Company They Keep: C. S. Lewis and J. R. R. Tolkien as Writers in Community
Cover of the first edition
AuthorDiana Pavlac Glyer
LanguageEnglish
SubjectJ.R.R. Tolkien, C.S. Lewis, Charles Williams, Inklings
GenreNon-fiction; Literary history
PublisherKent State University Press
Publication date
March 1, 2007
Pages293 (hardcover)
ISBN978-0-87338-890-0
OCLC70265586
823/.912 B 22
LC ClassPR6023.E926 Z6642 2007

Dr. Glyer provides the historical context for C.S. Lewis' famous statement that one doesn't influence Tolkien, one "might as well try to influence a bandersnatch!" and examines the ways the Inklings both inspired and provoked each other into writing better, more distinctly individual works than they would have without the group.

Awards

The Company They Keep: C. S. Lewis and J. R. R. Tolkien as Writers in Community is the winner of the 2008 Mythopoeic Scholarship Award in Inklings Studies;[2] and the NETS 2006/2007 Imperishable Flame Award.[3] it was also nominated for the Hugo Award for Best Related Book at Denvention 3, the 66th World Science Fiction Convention, held in Denver, Colorado.

gollark: I'll check Wikipedia, as Wikipedia knows all information.
gollark: So now it *is* inherently scary...?
gollark: Maybe it's one of those infohazards where knowing about it means it might happen to you, like [REDACTED].
gollark: I've never actually experienced sleep paralysis myself, but the internet seems to have become interested in it recently.
gollark: 30000 people can never be wrong, so that's basically as good as research I guess.

References
  1. "About The Inklings". Inklings Bibliography. Retrieved 2008-08-28.
  2. "Mythopoeic Awards - 2008". Mythopoeic Awards - 2008. Archived from the original on 2008-09-14. Retrieved 2008-08-28.
  3. Heren Istarion, New England Tolkien Society


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