Portal Fantasies and Defining the Genre (Possibly 01 in a series)

And when we contrast that with, say, the very first Dresden book, that's not how the first Dresden book happens. The first Dresden book is about the magic coming into the mundane and intruding.

And of course, when you look at The Eye of the World and you look at The Fellowship of the Ring, you go, "Yeah, they're really similar."

So, if we think of The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe, there's a really clear example, very simple, straightforward example. The children are in Second World War London, they go to the countryside, so they move from one place to another. In the countryside, they then find a the wardrobe, that brings them to a fantasy world, Narnia.