The Chronicles of Narnia, by C. S. Lewis, is a set of interesting fairy tales for children in a fantasy style like The Lord of the Rings, but serious in a different manner.#

What I enjoyed most about the stories was the morality. It is not too subtle and not too preachy, but is best called 'appropriate.' When Aslan rebukes the children and the characters it makes sense and the lessons are real lessons; even the heroes of a story are not morally pure.#

While the books are good, it is possible to make too many comparisons between Lewis and Tolkien. Narnia is definitely loosely connected tales with a greater purpose only Aslan understands, whereas The Lord of the Rings is a concise epic that is complete story of its time, although it exists atop a greater world.#