C. S. Lewis and J. R. R. Tolkien show how to begin a fantasy novel

‘There was a boy called Eustace Clarence Scrubb, and he almost deserved it.’
The Voyage of the Dawn Treader by C. S. Lewis

‘In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit.  Not a nasty, dirty, wet hole, filled with the ends of worms and an oozy smell, nor yet a dry, bare, sandy hole with nothing in it to sit down on or eat: it was a hobbit-hole, and that means comfort.’
The Hobbit by J. R. R. Tolkien

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