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"In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit" - J. R. R. Tolkien
That is just how all good things start; with a small idea that grows. Same with anything creative.
He referred to the whole legundarium as growing from a single small idea. I don't know if we know what it was, but it started that way.
https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Leaf_by_Niggle
Same for Game of Thrones by G.R.R. Martin... He's stated that the whole story started from a vision of the "king's party comes across a dead direwolf surrounded by her whimpering pups and the stag that pierced her chest" scene.