Narnia is the fictional land named in C.S. Lewis’s best-known fantasy series, The Chronicles of Narnia.
The seven-book series begins with The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, published in 1950, and follows children who enter or encounter the world of Narnia. The setting contains talking animals, mythical creatures, rulers, battles, and a distinctive chronology that does not match the order in which the books were published.
Narnia is often compared with Middle-earth, the setting of J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings, but the two worlds belong to different authors and series. Lewis’s Narnia stories draw on Christian themes as well as classical mythology, fairy tales, and northern European legend. The name “Narnia” may also refer to the Roman town of Narnia in Italy, although Lewis did not publicly present the fictional land as a direct adaptation of that place.