Did you know that without a "smoke-filled pub" in Oxford, we might never have had The Lord of the Rings or The Chronicles of Narnia?

J.R.R. Tolkien and C.S. Lewis weren't just colleagues, they were best friends, creative rivals, and the heart of a writing circle called the Inklings. From Tolkien’s role in Lewis’s spiritual conversion to the "creative spat" over why Tolkien actually hated the first Narnia book, their friendship changed the face of fantasy forever.

Dive into the secret history of the fellowship that built our favourite worlds.