In C.S. Lewis’s The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, a wardrobe leads the children into Narnia.
Lucy Pevensie discovers the passage while exploring a spare room in the country house where the four siblings are staying during the Second World War. She walks through the wardrobe, initially finding coats and then entering a snowy woodland in Narnia. Lucy meets the faun Mr. Tumnus, who tells her about the White Witch’s rule.
The wardrobe is central to the novel’s structure because it connects the ordinary world of wartime England with the fantasy world of Narnia. Edmund later enters through the same object, followed by Peter and Susan. The children’s arrival helps begin the story of Narnia’s liberation from the White Witch.
The wardrobe is sometimes confused with the story’s other magical objects, especially the enchanted Turkish delight associated with Edmund or the stone table connected with Aslan. Those objects are important, but the wardrobe is the doorway between the two worlds.