u/Seretdoesntknow

Is it the prose or the subject matter presented in the first chapter or even page of a fantasy that makes novels like Dune, LOTR, GOT, and those others so popular? Or is it that they are old and written long ago, so it suddenly gives them literary weight?

Can very serious subject matters come later but still appeal to the audiences of these works? What constitutes a dark or epic fantasy on its very first page?

I could research this, obviously, but I just want to hear some other opinions.

I'm not sure if the way I've worded it makes sense, but first chapters are hard to nail, and I wonder what kept people reading the novels I listed, and/or what makes the opening of a novel feel like a true dark and epic fantasy.

Is anyone taking PSY 100-03 Lec? At first it showed it was in person Tuesday Thursday, now it’s online and the days are TBA. Does anyone know why?

I’m writing a chapter and I’ve noticed that my background seems to dull out what i want the chapter to mainly focus on.
Think of this background like it’s rain.

That’s just an example. It’s raining, it’s causing a disturbance in the protagonist’s world, the protagonist pauses to observe while on the way to the main event of the chapter, the main focus has little to do with what’s currently happening in the background, but it still can’t be ignored because the background will have importance latter

unless it’s advised I just push it to another chapter. Again it’s just an example not what I’m actually writing.

Usually chapters focus on one main thing, don’t they? I just worry this would feel like too much happening at once, unless I’m just at a stage where I’m over thinking.

Question, does it read as lazy or overdone if a story is opened to a character being called to answer to a higher power’s command. This command will lead the protagonist to the inciting incident
But not too sure how to go about it without that opening.

What’s a sequence of event you’ve noticed in fantasy novel’s and their first chapter that seems overdone. Or is there no such thing and it doesn’t really matter?