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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Janx" data-source="post: 7548412" data-attributes="member: 8835">This is the principal I've mentioned and Mercurious hit it on the head.Us writers are advised to start with a hooking first sentence, to get to the chase.  To grab your interest in the first 10-50 pages or you'll close the book and grab another on your kindle or flip open youtube or start sampling movies on netflix until one grabs you.  That first chapter can't begin with "in a long long ago when the andals did some stuff and I'm gonna tell you about it in slo-mo before we get to the actual protagonist."Now it's got to be "Bilbo felt the line jerk, halting his movement toward the museum floor, stopping inches away from the Valaarian Diamond."TLDR happens because the opening text didn't grab and the reader wasn't invested in trying.  It's the same reason we have click-bait titles.</blockquote>