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

这些周期始于一个宇宙起源神话: 艾努尔人音。

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'.

力量和智慧来对宇宙戏剧，首先将其视为一场戏剧（即我以某种方式感知到由人编造故事），后来又将其视为“现实”。