So yeah we all know C.S. Lewis would meet with J.R.R Tolkien, Charles Williams and other awesome writers at The Eagle & Child pub in Oxford.
As I understand it, they had a favorite drink of choice - gin with something. Lime? Tonic? Bitters? Anyone know?
Also, did they do primarily pipes or cigars? Any specifics?
Haha, I know I will never reproduce their writing efforts just by duplicating their drink & smoke, but I figure it couldn't hurt! I'm especially interested in the drink thing. Thanks!
2007-03-28 12:25:55 · 4 answers · asked by alien~ 5 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Books & Authors
It has always been my understanding (through reading Humphrey Carpenter's well-known "Biography", The Inklings, many years past) that the members of that group has tastes as diverse in drink and smoking as they did in literature.
Tolkien enjoyed "good brown" beer and a pipe...that much I know for certain.
Lewis I believe had a taste for gin and the occasional pint of beer, and often smoked a pipe as well. I'm not aware of him having been a cigarette smoker, but that doesn't mean he wasn't.
On the subject of Charles Williams, the third most famous of "the triumvirate", I can't really say. I don't recall reading anything particular on his "habits", though Williams was very eccentric.
Most often, "to drink beer and smoke tobacco" is the phrase used in speaking of the Inklings meetings.
2007-03-28 15:10:40 · answer #1 · answered by amsmith 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Well, it depends..
2016-08-23 22:18:00 · answer #2 · answered by tami 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
they had wine.
2007-04-05 07:05:26 · answer #3 · answered by child of God 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
coffee and cigs
2007-03-28 12:29:36 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋