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    The Company They Keep: C. S. Lewis and J. R. R. Tolkien as Writers in   
   Community by Diana Pavlac Glyer   
      
   Glyer shows how the members of the group influenced one another, and   
   challenges the view of many scholars that there was no such influence. She   
   notes that an entire generation of scholars was discouraged from studying or   
   asserting mutual influence among the Inklings when C.S. Lewis warned a   
   correspondent who asked about influence among the Inklings that he should not   
   “waste time” on a “barren field”. Glyer argues that there was a tendency to   
   confuse influence with imitation. “In claiming that Tolkien was not influenced   
   by Lewis, for example, scholars typically mean that his sub-created world does   
   not resemble Malacandra and his creative aesthetic is different from that   
   which envisioned Narnia.”   
      
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