Narnia is more like the Potter books in terms of its reliance on children as protagonists. It's deeper & more Christian, but also less lively & cohesive as a unified piece of storytelling, shorter on its characters.
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Also, the Lion, the Witch, & the Wardrobe is (like the first Harry Potter & the Hobbit) more obviously a kids' book than the rest of the series. Voyage of the Dawn Treader is easily the best of the Narnia series.
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Confession: I didn't much like the Lion, the Witch, & the Wardrobe as a kid, never read the series until I tried with my son, gave up halfway thru Horse & His Boy. Only with my youngest did I get all the way through the series to appreciate the later books.
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The Hobbit, by contrast, was the first 'real' book I read, a a second-grader. Tolkien's world engrossed me throughout my youth.
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The two other big fantasy series I've read were Terry Brooks' Shannara series, which I read in my early teens and can no longer even remember at all, & Christopher Paolini's Eragon series, which I read aloud -- it was fun & had some great moments but was very derivative.
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Narrative challenge of Christian fantasy, which Tolkien & Lewis addressed in different ways: the reader wants the Hero to prevail, but this conflicts w/Christian lesson that victory comes only by humbling ourselves to accept salvation as a gift from God.https://twitter.com/MikeRathbone86/status/1254494219764408325 …
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They were sort of the Beatles & Stones of epic, highbrow fantasy writinghttps://twitter.com/barrelproven/status/1254493469449617409 …
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If you've never read the Covenant books, especially the original two trilogies, you should do that. Powerful & disturbing. Donaldson has a firm grip on fallibility & tragedy. And his vision of redemption is also ultimately quite Christian.
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As for the Paolini books, the ending (which I won't spoil here) is quite elegant; my favorite part is where the dragons band together to eliminate the names of their betrayers from their language, so they can no longer even *think* of their own selves.
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I never read the last Paolini book because by the third it felt like he’d lost interest in his own story and was only writing to meet deadlines. Which disappointed me because the first one was so good. So I should read the last one?
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Yes. Worth the payoff.
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