Board Thread:General Mod Discussion/@comment-27860585-20160227122451/@comment-26347028-20160303075036

Catfishperson wrote: Feanor created the Silmarils, which effectively turned Melkor into Morgoth. Then out of greed he refused to surrender the Silmarils to Yavana, effectively destroying the two trees forever. After this he proceded to manipulate the majority of the Noldor into revolt, and swore "The Oath of Feanor" which triggered "The Doom of Mandos," which basicly forever condemed the Noldor, Men, and all the people of Middle Earth to horrible lives. If it weren't for the greed of the elves, we'd all be happily living in paradise right now. Melkor was always evil. He'd already destroyed the Lamps and the Trees. Whatever valuable thing came next, he was bound to steal. Just because Fëanor made some beautiful thing does not make it his fault it was stolen. Like it wasn't Thingol's fault he got murdered in cold blood by the Dwarves for simply having the Nauglamir. And it was not because of Fëanor that they took their time. There were advocates of intervention for a long time but the fact remains that most of the Valar are non-interventionalist. This is also shown through the fact they sent the Istari, rather than armies. They remember what happened at the beginning of Arda to the inner sea, and they know what would happen to Beleriand. And yes, the Ñoldor were being beaten back, but the Valar would not have allowed Melkor to have dominion anyway. Eventually, he would've tried to challenge the Valar. That would've caused far more damage.