Certainly it seems that the actions of Eru and the Valar in the Ainulindale are on a higher plane than our perception of the world; nonetheless, the phrase about 'sight where before there was only hearing' implies a meaningful distinction between these two senses. The perceptions of the Valar cannot therefore be so dissimilar to ours that no analogy exists between their 'sight' and ours, their 'hearing' and ours.
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