Not A Book Review: A Random Observation

[caitri]

So I'm reading The Fellowship by Phillip and Carol Zaleski, which is a pretty massive biography of the Inklings. It's good, but I'm getting tired how all of the women--or at least everyone but Mrs. Moore, who possibly was the lover of CS Lewis--are always offstage having babies and doing gods know what, while the homosocial literary meetings just happen. So I've decided to pretend that while the Inklings are having their meetings, Edith Tolkien is running an unnamed group where all the ladies share their fics. And that Lewis's apocryphal "Oh God, not another Elf!" comment refers to Edith's 400,000 word response to The Silmarillion that's really just all about polyamorous Elves.

Comments

[weirdquark]

You should write a story about the Inkling women's writers circle. It could have excerpts from their stories. And literary criticism.

[caitri.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I was thinking about how to do that actually. :)