The cycles begin with a cosmogonical myth: the Music of the Ainur.

这些周期始于个宇宙话: 艾努尔人的音乐。

Their power and wisdom is derived from their Knowledge of the cosmogonical drama, which they perceived first as a drama (that is as in a fashion we perceive a story composed by someone else), and later as a 'reality'.

他们的力量和智慧来他们对宇宙戏剧的认识，他们首先将其视戏剧（即我们以某种方式感知到由他人编造的故事），后来又将其视“现实”。