Alberto Magma, the Dottore Universalis

MENTORS AND MESSENGERS.
Eavesdroppers, please form a line here to accept your mission from Gandalf. Disambiguation: For eavesdropping and its penalties at common law, see any open law library online.
It is known to all Tolkien readers that he tried to eavesdrop on angels himself in the Leaf by Niggle story. He depicts Sam as clumsily trying to overhear Gandalf and Frodo, making noise in the greenery and being discovered and subsequently pressed into service as a sort of pack mule. This is the fate of an eavesdropper in the lexicon of middle earth.
In Dante, Virgil is the Gandalfian angelic guide, and Dante is similar to Frodo, having been exiled from the shire as a result of wars and battles away south that he had nothing to do with. However in Dante, there is no Sam, eavesdropping on the pagan angel. We are Sam...we are the uneducated in the ways of Paradise who hope to overhear some blessed song, like an old testament Prophet or an evangelist hoping to hear the song of Paradise.
Dante wrote a song or poem about how to get to Paradise after he was exiled from his hometown of Florence, Italy.

If you are intimidated by the sheer weight of the glory, use the Valanga technique which is to listen to yourself or someone else say or sing it, then use a humourous quiz like the example above. It is quite long and literary but in fact beauty or beatitude is a VIA that attracts the heart toward heaven. Just as the smell of a pie may attract the panza, and a fine filosofia may attract the intellect, the heart too has its reasons and the heart is ultimately the volcanic puissance motrice behind everything the valanga does. Giovanni 3:16 DILEXIT NOS