A wardrobe carries Lucy Pevensie into Narnia in C.S. Lewis’s The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe. While exploring Professor Kirke’s large country house, Lucy steps inside a wardrobe and discovers that it leads to a snowy wood.
Lucy initially meets Mr. Tumnus, a faun, beside a lamp-post. She returns to the house and later brings her siblings into the wardrobe’s world. The ordinary piece of furniture thus becomes the doorway through which the Pevensie children enter the central conflict of the novel.
The wardrobe is one of the most recognizable images in children’s fantasy. It is important not to confuse this entrance with portals in other Narnia books: The Magician’s Nephew uses magical rings and pools, while The Voyage of the Dawn Treader begins in the world of a painting.