Henry Victor "Hugo" Dyson was a Tutor and Fellow of Merton College, Oxford from 1945 to 1963. He was also one of the Inklings, a group which included C.S. Lewis and J.R.R. Tolkien. If any of them were in the process of writing something, they would read what they had to the group for opinions and criticism. However, Dyson disliked Tolkien's stories and often loudly expressed his feelings when Tolkien read early versions. He is recorded at one Inkling gathering as saying "Oh, fuck, not another elf!".