The schoolmaster kept up his relationship with Lewis and Tolkien through letters and visits. Following the war, George and Moira Sayer moved to Malvern College where would become a teacher and eventually head of English. Until the close of the war where he worked in the Intelligence Corps. To do this, I want briefly to introduce George Sayer. Since I refer to the Inklings and their meetings so often, I thought I would be best to share a bit more of their background. I don’t think that the Inklings were more important to English literature than the Paris Expats or the Bloomsbury Set or the Detection Club, but in terms of the development of fantasy literature, the Inklings created new worlds. Without Lewis’ persistent support and criticism and the company of other mythopoeic writers, Tolkien may never have completed that grand project of turning his mythology into popular story, lyric, and epic. Without the daring possibilities in Tolkien’s work and the intelligent conversation of the Inklings, Lewis may never have turned to popular fiction and cultural criticism. One of those was the Inklings, which made C.S. I wrote last week about all the literary groups that formed some of the greatest writers of the 20th century, and how L.M.
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