I’ve noticed this in Tolkien and C.S. Lewis’s writings and it seems like a unique way to tell a story but I enjoy it immensely. They both give this feel of an omniscient narrator who knows more than he’s telling the reader just yet, but with little explanation of how the narrator came by this knowledge.

I have always felt that (more with Tolkien than Lewis) the narrator is meant to be the author himself and what he is writing is the relaying of the tale rather than something of his own creation. Just wondering if anyone else has noticed this and knew of other authors who do the same. Cheers.