Narnia is the fictional land at the center of C.S. Lewis’s Chronicles of Narnia. The seven-book series follows human children and other characters through adventures involving Narnia’s rulers, creatures, histories, and conflicts.
Narnia is more than a single setting: Lewis’s stories describe its creation, changing kingdoms, forests, seas, islands, and final destruction. The world is governed by Aslan, the great lion, who functions as its creator and highest authority within the series’ mythology.
Readers sometimes confuse Narnia with other famous fantasy settings, especially J.R.R. Tolkien’s Middle-earth. Tolkien and Lewis were friends and members of an Oxford literary circle, but their invented worlds are separate creations. Narnia belongs specifically to Lewis’s seven-volume series, while Middle-earth is associated with Tolkien’s legendarium.